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they kind of treat a "Note" as an "Article" by showing a preview (when text is above x chars) with a "show" more link
This is UI-specific, right? I use the Mastodon "advanced UI" on the desktop and there's no "show more" expander control. It only has a scroll bar for the long text. However, the Ice Cubes iOS app has a "Show full post" expander for the same post (for example).
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Article vs. Note vs. Pagejulian: nor anyone else I know of, for that matter — treat anything that's not as:Note or as:Question specially. I don't think that's the case, but maybe you meant something more specific than what you wrote? Several implementations support content-related AS2 content types (both base types and extensions) that do not fallback to as:Note or as:Question. For example, Funkwhale has "Libraries", "Tracks", "Audio" (etc.), PeerTube has "PlayLists" and "Video", PixelFed has "Story", Mobilizon has "Event", and so on. jupiter_rowland: Same reasoning as for hard-coding the 500-character limit. Unfortunately (in my opinion), that's only hard-coded in the UIs. I often see "Note" content, from non-Mastodon servers or patched Mastodon instances, that are 1000s of characters long in my feed and the viewing UX is not very good. -
Pre-Alpha ActivityPub-related bug reportsHi @devnull . I haven't been following the forum topic federation discussions very closely, so this may be a silly question. Are forum topics going to be fully federated or just replicated (which is not quite the same thing, even for 2-way sync)? For example, if in the future there are 1000's of NodeBB instances running and there's a topic X, is it possible that the posts for that topic could be coming from multiple NodeBB instances (or other instance implementations)? If so, a topic-level canonical link will not work. Google currently indexes individual Mastodon posts (at least some of them, not sure about all of them). The AP Note identifier is the canonical URL in this case. (Google also indexes actor profiles in some cases, but that's a different discussion. ) FWIW, this is the canonical link I see for this topic: I'm guessing the canonical link you quoted is on the NodeBB side? Since these are different canonical links, I'd expect that Google will consider these (SocialHub and NodeBB topics) to be different web resources with mostly replicated content.