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> I think QRTs are stupid and if anything I'd gut them out

So, my suggestion for this was just "If an object[type:"Note"] is linked to in a post, the server can determine this by doing a very fast lookup of the object URL and then decorate it with metadata the same way that replies and quote-posts are decorated with metadata and the frontend can decide if it feels like displaying it as an inline quote or an abridged inline quote". This makes it easy to use them in frontends that don't support quote-posts (you just put the /objects/ URL in), it's performant (every single backend, even mine, has a really fast "Does this object exist anywhere?" lookup, because they all have to), and then support for creating them can be as easy in the frontend as it is currently: you just put the quote-posted URL at the end of the post. I will probably end up doing this, at least on the backend and on FediBBS; I might add it to FSE's Pleroma-BE and the patches will be public.