So a little problem with the Fediverse. Some platforms, such as #Friendica, which I cannot stop going on about, allow very rich content. Not just going over 500 characters, but tables, quoting of other posts, properly threaded replies, rich text, etc etc.
But anything you're gonna write is gonna get federated to the elephant in the room, which because it's pretending to be #twitter is very much a lowest common denominator.
Should we just go ahead and do it anyway, or should users of more compositionally capable #fediverse software limit ourselves to what we know is going to render sensibly on #mastodon and its various clones?
But anything you're gonna write is gonna get federated to the elephant in the room, which because it's pretending to be #twitter is very much a lowest common denominator.
Should we just go ahead and do it anyway, or should users of more compositionally capable #fediverse software limit ourselves to what we know is going to render sensibly on #mastodon and its various clones?
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•Back in the day Ceefax news page was staffed by very good writers who managed to say more in one limited page than a normal TV bulletin.
So maybe force an abstract for platform with constrained output, and richer text for more expansive platforms.
But then forums versus blogs were a thing back in the day too.
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It's more things like this and this and this,
which given you're seeing this on Mastodon, you can't see at all.
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•Manual versus automatic.
Code handles it, or lo-fi and hi-fi accounts can be used. abstract in one. Shiny stuff in the other.
Basically less than one page of a standards guide.
It's really just a question of will, or if it's worth the effort. I can't make that decision for anyone else.
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•Never limit yourself, especially in this burgeoning #Fediverse.
Loose-coupling of everything is the name of the game, and that can also lead to better products that compete on functionality rather than artificial choke-holds based on monopoly etc..
IMHO -- you should always up the ante competitively as long as it doesn't break Fediverse interoperability π
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#fediverse #mastodon #Twitter #friendica
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•So yep, go ahead and post whatever you want in the format that makes the most sense for the content.
To hold yourself back for the sake of #Mastodon is to deprive all of the other clients of better content, while also maintaining that same, crippled status quo.
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