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question mainly to proponents of quote posts, but anyone can respond:

what would you say is the semantic relationship between a “quote post” and “the post being quoted”?

Are there any semantics at all, or is it a generic link/reference? What’s the difference between a “quote” and a “link preview”?

By semantic, I mean “meaning”. What does it mean to “quote” something?

If “quote posts” never existed, how would you design an equivalent?

EDIT: got plenty responses! see downthread for conclusion

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This is less a question of behavior or functionality (“here’s how i use quote posts”) and entirely about semantics (“the nature of the relationship between my post and the quoted post is…”)

To use replies as an example: the functionality of replies is that you want to link your post to on or more posts in a series. But the semantics of replies is that you are specifically responding to the thing you are linking; the “link relationship” between “your post” and “their post” is “reply/response to”