Speaking as a software dev, you should take note when users start building their own software to work around intentional limits in your application.
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Speaking as a software dev, you should take note when users start building their own software to work around intentional limits in your application. It's a sign that you've made a terrible mistake somewhere.
RE: https://social.growyourown.services/users/FediTips/statuses/114624857663236436 -
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Speaking as a software dev, you should take note when users start building their own software to work around intentional limits in your application. It's a sign that you've made a terrible mistake somewhere.
RE: https://social.growyourown.services/users/FediTips/statuses/114624857663236436@hazelnoot@enby.life I mean... it's not like sharkey has built-in threading either :3
Sure, longer character limit helps to avodd them, but if you have >4 images (or even 1 image + 1 video) and want mastodon people to be able to see them, you still need a thread and rn the only way to do that is to:
1. upload everything onto the drive, add alt text etc
2. draft everything in a text file, edit/split/etc
3. paste the first post, add images
4. take a deep breath, hit "note"
5. Quickly paste the next segment, add images, note, paste the next segment, add images, note, paste the next segment/images, note
like I keep the highscore thread same between fedi and bluesky and it's sooo much easier on the latter despite the character limits. I can take my time to edit the entire thread, incl. images. On fedi I often can't -
@hazelnoot@enby.life I mean... it's not like sharkey has built-in threading either :3
Sure, longer character limit helps to avodd them, but if you have >4 images (or even 1 image + 1 video) and want mastodon people to be able to see them, you still need a thread and rn the only way to do that is to:
1. upload everything onto the drive, add alt text etc
2. draft everything in a text file, edit/split/etc
3. paste the first post, add images
4. take a deep breath, hit "note"
5. Quickly paste the next segment, add images, note, paste the next segment, add images, note, paste the next segment/images, note
like I keep the highscore thread same between fedi and bluesky and it's sooo much easier on the latter despite the character limits. I can take my time to edit the entire thread, incl. images. On fedi I often can't@alice@mk.nyaa.place oh yeah, forgot about that. We could probably handle that on the backend with a little federation trickery and Misskey's dynamic federation stuff
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@alice@mk.nyaa.place oh yeah, forgot about that. We could probably handle that on the backend with a little federation trickery and Misskey's dynamic federation stuff
@alice@mk.nyaa.place outbound federation - "pop out" all videos into a separate empty self-reply, then batch images into groups of four and do the same. Give each fake reply a generated
idof<note_uri>/partial/<uuid>.
Inbound federation - rewrite incoming referenced URIs to remove the/partial/<uuid>part, thus redirecting all interactions and replies to the "real" post.
The author and anyone on non-mastodon platforms sees just the one post as-wrotte , while Mastodon users see a clean thread of media. Interactions and replies are all synced up for federation -
@alice@mk.nyaa.place outbound federation - "pop out" all videos into a separate empty self-reply, then batch images into groups of four and do the same. Give each fake reply a generated
idof<note_uri>/partial/<uuid>.
Inbound federation - rewrite incoming referenced URIs to remove the/partial/<uuid>part, thus redirecting all interactions and replies to the "real" post.
The author and anyone on non-mastodon platforms sees just the one post as-wrotte , while Mastodon users see a clean thread of media. Interactions and replies are all synced up for federation -
@hazelnoot@enby.life aahh… don't
relays, inbox forwarding, fetches… too many moving parts to make this reliable@dakkar@s.thenautilus.net yeah, that's true. it seems really risky when the other option (tell Mastodon to fix their backend) is so much easier
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@alice@mk.nyaa.place oh yeah, forgot about that. We could probably handle that on the backend with a little federation trickery and Misskey's dynamic federation stuff
@hazelnoot @alice or mastodon vanilla could just implement support for at least showing such cases of attachments like glitch and chukya now do >.> (oh do I love website boy /s)