Quoted posts
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@julian Here is one post with screenshots: https://indiehackers.social/@leroy/111746082634398937
I ended up not continuing with this idea. I still really like the simplicity of it BUT it suffers from the fact that people might have auto-deletion of their posts, which can cause gaps in data quite quickly. Which goes against my love of forums (a trove of data for future ‘generations*’).
*generation in this use means a person looking for same knowledge, but it’s new to them
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@julian so perhaps more an advocacy thing than a feature change?
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Little heads-up: So far, Hubzilla renders everything the way I guess it's intended. Nothing out of the ordinary.
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>How that is represented via ActivityPub is probably detailed in some FEP
FEP-e232? I think you can add
content
orsummary
property to FEP-e232 link to represent HTML content of a quote -
@thisismissem @julian @leroy @renchap I take the same view as @leroy as well -- you can render replies as a rich preview above every post that happens to be a reply. Discord does this, for example. In fact, if Mastodon did this, then they would only need a way to tell when to insert such "quote replies" into timelines and when not to. It could be as simple as a boolean toot:quoteReply = true. With management of the `replies` collection via FEP-7458 (and some proof/stamp mechanism like FEP-0391).
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@silverpill @thisismissem @julian I think you could define a Quote type that is a subclass of Link and use microsyntax to find-and-replace the blockquote with a rich entity with `content` or maybe even `preview`. But this generally makes sense only when you want that rich entity, and not just a "simple" blockquote.
Discourse for example uses [quote] tags kinda like bbcode, and they add metadata something like [quote author:someone,thread:2319,post:69] where the metadata is used in the preview.
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@[email protected] part of the reason we don't do this special syntax is because we (probably) made the conscious decision to keep the composer as simple as possible so that end users wouldn't have to relearn a bespoke syntax.
... but I'm not really sure anymore. My rationale could just be post facto lol
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@julian yeah, if you have a rich composer it's less bad. i don't think i've ever manually authored a quote tag in Discourse, for example. every single time i quote someone it's via the floating button that appears when you select something, or via the dropdown menu option
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For reference, Hubzilla renders both the same way.
If you "share" someone's post (what Mastodon users call a "quote post") is basically just:@[email protected]
[quote]Whatever they said.[/quote]
which gets translated to:@[email protected]
<blockquote>Whatever they said.</blockquote>
If someone quotes someone's post in a forum, it is the same exact thing.
And users can also add their own blockquotes to posts by using the BBCode[quote]
tags too.
It's all blockquotes.
Note: This posts uses<code>
blocks. This may not render properly on all platforms.