NodeBB-ActivityPub Bridge Test Instance

@julian@community.nodebb.org no, no, i just edited my post, I was confused ... in fact it wasn't working, I'll try from a Mastodon account

Seems to work! WHy did you think it didn't?

Sharkey is kind of a mess these days, sigh.

@julian@community.nodebb.org

@julian@community.nodebb.org yeah, horrible UX. talk about violating the principle of least surprised! it's happened to me more than once.

Sharkey bizarrely has almost the inverse UX problem. The 'to' list is separate, as it should be ... but if it's more than a couple of people it extends off the right side of the screen (at least in Firefox) and there's no way to scroll. So I replied to a DM that had five people in it, deleted their mentions from the main text ... and still replied to them because they were on the To line, just not visible.

And then I'm pretty sure that if you DM reply on Mastodon to the Sharkey message, accounts show up in the reply even though there's absolutely no evidence that they were on the message you were replying to (because the mentions weren't there in the text, and Mastodon doesn't show a separate To line, or something like that). @stefan@stefanbohacek.online I think you ran into this as well?

Easy. Just like email. Yeah right. lolsob.

Wow, that's great to see! And this in particular ...

You can mention whoever you want without the message accidentally leaking out because who you mention is different from who is in the chat room.

Similar search results on blahaj.zone (which is on Sharkey)

searching for https://discussions.thenexus.today/post/52 works

searching for https://discussions.thenexus.today/topic/16/can-i-bridge-from-nodebb-to-bluesky/12 gives an internal error in Sharkey, oh dear.

Also GoToSocial strips the subject header out in replies, as does Mastodon.

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@julian@community.nodebb.org very interesting work, it's certainly addressing an important problem!