It's wonderful to see discussions occurring on the fediverse like this. I think a future challenge, as more diverse federated platforms become popular, will be figuring out better ways to display content in your feed based on it's origin.
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It's wonderful to see discussions occurring on the fediverse like this. I think a future challenge, as more diverse federated platforms become popular, will be figuring out better ways to display content in your feed based on it's origin.
An example - this thread (with some very long posts) is readable in my Mastodon timeline, but definitely easier to read in a discussion oriented format like Discourse.
On Mastodon:
https://mastodon.social/@pfefferle@socialhub.activitypub.rocks/112415946608955915
On Discourse:
https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/topics-in-the-threadiverse/4225/1
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@[email protected] Yep that's exactly it. Long-form content has not traditionally been well-represented in a microblogging context, and with forums and blogs now joining the ActivityPub game, there hopefully will soon be additional pressure for Mastodon to adopt better handling for long-form content.
Members of the ForumWG are aware of this and aware of Mastodon's intent to provide a good microblogging experience, so long-form content doesn't always fit well in that UX.
So the solution here isn't to force Mastodon to make long posts a thing, but hopefully we can coordinate efforts to send the proper signals so long-form content can be easily distinguishable.
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@julian perhaps relevant to a minor degree: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/20191
