You're absolutely right that most of the things being discussed in the mastodon space are already built. Search and quote posts are both controversial, but also both old news on a number of fediverse platforms.
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Soapbox utilizing its own backend has supported full text search and quote posting since 2021 according to a news post I found, and I recall having those options for a long time on my instance.
Friendica has had full text search and "quote share" since at least 2020, judging from notes from the 2020 release talking about improving full text search and a bug report from 2020 about someone having issues with quote share.
Friendica has had full text search and "quote share" since at least 2020, judging from notes from the 2020 release talking about improving full text search and a bug report from 2020 about someone having issues with quote share.