Thinking about how Quote Posts work here. If I quote post something to add context and then a year later the server has shutdown that I had QPed from then my context I was referring to is no longer pointing to anything and wouldn't make sense. Sometimes that's fine but sometimes its an important thing that's happening in the world that I am adding context to in my own historical record so having that history depend on an external server staying up really hinders memory.
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@julian makes me think there might be use in supporting both types.
@liaizon I've been on record saying that we should differentiate more clearly between quoting as journalism or academic discussion vs. quoting as “I found a cool post, please go interact with it.”
FEP-044f quotes are pretty clearly built for the second variant, which is how their safety features make sense. Twitter quote posts AIUI started as the first and morphed into the second. I think Hubzilla and Friendica do their quotes more in line with the first idea.