Well, one problem I have with it is how there is no agreed upon standard for it in clients. There was a year or two where I could not even get a notification when someone quoted my note. I see from your raw note data, you are probably using damus? Because, there is a "q" tag and an "nevent" content in the note itself. Other clients just use "e" tags, or who knows actually. Like I said, there's no standard here. So in effect, people were "talking" about my content, without my knowledge and acting like they're doing me some kind of favor. Or maybe this was their intention all along, to just talk shit using my content as a crutch for having no content of their own while not allowing me to find it and reply back. Meanwhile I am oblivious as the OP, get no credit for the content, see no interaction from it. Many tend to treat a quote note as a reply itself, they have no idea this is happening or that they are breaking the chain of context.
But anyway, let's put that aside for now, clients could have interoperable standards, just because they chose not to, does not make the concept itself lame.
As for the concept itself, the quoting of a note. I tend to browse nostr like a forum. When I am out of main note content (happens a lot) I am just browsing the reply feeds. I would have seen your note as a comment on flash's content, and I would have been able to pull up the entire comment tree under this content and browse it and be able to follow the conversation that led up to your opinion, if there was any. Quote notes take that all away, because of the difficulty of crawling the references. So, they are used to post things out of context and gather attention or zaps from some other content out there. Those zaps, should have gone to the original poster, without which, the quotoor would have nothing to talk about. But only amethyst supports zap splits and they don't work anyway because nobody can tell what is what in most renderings of notes. Am I replying to a quote? Am I replying to the original note? Am I zapping which? Etc.
I do understand, that the WWW was built on hyperlinks, and that quote notes are sort-of like hyperlinks for nostr. I just think it's poorly implemented and overused. Why even have replies at all? Why not just everything quote notes? That seems like how a majority of people use nostr is just quote note central.
