ActivityPub Plugin

[mcdanlj]

@angus

Gotcha, I’ll investigate further soon.

I forgot to edit that out after discovering that my leaving retort in place accidentally was the source of the error.

Oops.

@angus

Yes, we’ll be adding support for editing Note content post-publication in phase 2.

Good enough!

I’ll not worry about this any more, and in phase 2 I’ll help test that.

@angus

Are you thinking of having a site-wide actor or are you more thinking about the sub-category issue?

I vaguely wondered about both, but it was a low-value question. Was just curious how far I could carry my experimentation with my staging site, and didn’t want to try things that were known to be impossible already.

@angus

I’m curious where you’re anticipating federating the unrestricted content? Genuine question; I want to understand where you’re coming from a bit more here.

I’ll try!

Context: Mastodon limits the length of post it will allow users to author but not the length of post it will display. I run a Mastodon-glitch server configured with a 2000-character limit; I’ve seen several people post about configuring a 31337-character limit (because of course). I see long posts in my feed from folks using pleroma, akkoma, etc.

We have some really cool content showing up on Maker Forums (my discourse) from time to time (in my opinion, anyway!), and I’d like to promote it on the Fediverse generally to make it accessible to a wider audience. I know that Mastodon has been opinionated that 500 characters is the magic length for microblogging — but ActivityPub isn’t limited to microblogging. It’s federation, including but not limited to microblogging. When I follow an ActivityPub actor in my Mastodon account, it’s not limited to short posts. I can read, comment on, and boost longer posts.

So the “where you’re anticipating federating” is a confusing question to me.

• I would boost the content from my Mastodon-glitch server. Boosts do not apply the character limit that applies to authoring posts even on stock Mastodon.
• I would expect community members to follow from any ActivityPub server (recognizing this will be more Mastodon than others at least right now), and they won’t all have the same opinionated view of how long an ActivityPub note should be.

Ultimately, as the server administrator, I’m not in control of where this content is federated to. This is the decision of every follower. It’s not obvious to me why excepting vs federating the entire discourse post as an activitypub note would be the default even for followers on Mastodon, but more so throughout the Fediverse.

I’m not sure that answers your question. But I’m not sure I understand it well, either. Happy to dive deeper on this if you’d like.