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One more little bit of feedback:
I still can't figure out how to get images in the body of my posts to show up on M, so I think maybe I'll only add tags when a single image is shared, in future.
TBC, the multi-image posts frankly look terrible on M, full of empty space, and with unwanted formatting issues.
I had a thought that it might be useful if communities had a list of default tags, so even if poster does not choose any, the post would still have some generic ones. If Fediverse feels that would be excessive, we could agree on some prefix/suffix for those default tags. So gaming_default does not "pollute" gaming
Great idea!
Mbin already does this afaik (the default tags, not the prefixes), so I don't think that would be controversial.
Oh nice I'll give it a shot
Oof... I hadn't been thinking of that at all.
Any idea if this works retroactively? For example, if I go back and label posts from the last week or two in the hopes that they might get caught up in Mastodon feeds?
Yes it probably would although anything older than 1 day on Mastodon gets zero views so I wouldn't bother.
Oh!
I was able to get today's earlier post to show up there, but it seems totally unable to recognise any of the Lemmy-style image samples, for example ye olde  format.
I also added the raw URL's under the images, but it just went ahead and listed them as URL's. (expected, TBF)
Ah. PieFed is just throwing the same html at Mastodon that we use in the PF web app and then Mastodon is stripping out things it can't handle. Perhaps we should do some pre-chewing of the html so that it degrades more gracefully, e.g. convert inline images to links.
In general that's a good idea because you should never trust content coming from somewhere else (even in an S2S context)
For reference, NodeBB literally sanitizes the bejeezus out of what it gets from anywhere. All classes are removed, all attributes are removed. I want it as close to semantic HTML as possible, and classes/attributes mean absolutely nothing because:
For example, Mastodon messes with any URL it federates out. It chops the anchor text in half, hides the rest behind invisible or something, and adds an ellipsis. invisible does something different in NodeBB, so there is a CSS conflict here. I strip everything and just show the URL as it was intended.
So if I understand correctly, Mastodon is happy to receive HTML markup like THIS, but... is such code something we could use in common PF posts, or..?
I might be wrong but currently there is no PieFed client that support hashtags.
Ooo, better add that to the API...
That's not really how it works here, but I would be interested in a way to add labels which could, behind the scenes be translated to hashtags. Reddit had them and it would be useful to say "I'm posting in this gaming community but it's about the witcher". That would be the board-style way to do it
Yes PieFed has that.
Yeah so I would argue that those should be transformed into hashtags. That can be done programmatically on the backend.
Yes, could do that as well. Cheers.
I've followed all the frequent posters
You could also follow the communities, right? Should give better visibility on the Mastodon side I think
Yes although that doesn't work very well (yet). Mastodon treats every reply as a new post which was boosted by the community which is spammy and bad UX.
@rimu@piefed.social No need to include the # character, but what if you do happen to include that? Will that also work fine?
yes
Do we really need microblog-style and "threadiverse"-style content to merge that much? I mean sure, it's neat that it's technically possible, but seeing Mastodon users' spurious username mentions and such when their comment is rendered in Lemmy is kind of annoying.
If I wanted to use Mastodon I'd just go make a Mastodon account.
My hope is that when they see more of the good stuff happening over here they'll join us.
We can agree to disagree but I disagree with you. I think the interoperability of Fediverse is one of its strengths. Personally, I do wish we saw more Mastodon comments on Threadiverse
This. I want to see mastodont content but I don't care enough to make an account. If everything can be aggregated that's lovely
No thank you.