Or you can run a Pleroma (or Akkoma) instance like I do and quote-tweet (we call them "quote-boosts") to your heart's content. Mastodon is but one server that speaks ActivityPub (and collectively make up the "fediverse."). Pleroma (and it's cousin, Akkoma) are others. Just because Mastodon chooses not to implement something that ActivityPub offers doesn't mean you're stuck.
You can think of ActivityPub as the SMTP of social media. Mastodon is to ActivityPub as Gmail is to SMTP.
RE: https://mamot.fr/users/pluralistic/statuses/109564954990361762
You can think of ActivityPub as the SMTP of social media. Mastodon is to ActivityPub as Gmail is to SMTP.
RE: https://mamot.fr/users/pluralistic/statuses/109564954990361762
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Nit: there's no support for quoting in vanilla ActivityPub. The way {Ple,Akk}omas compose them is to (a) add a nonstandard field pointing at the quoted toot (b) add a `<span class="this-is-the-quote-rendering-for-those-who-dont-understand-the-field> QT: Link To Quoted Toot</span>` suffix to the html representation. So, either (a) works and (b) is rendered with `display: none` or sth similar, or (a) is ignored and (b) is displayed.
@pluralistic Thanks for the clarification.