@thisismissem @julian @leroy Yes, we are starting again exploring how to represent quoted content (in a generic way) in ActivityPub, to then use this for our specific usage (quote posts).
Side note for Julian: I sent you a DM a while ago and never got a response, can you contact me either in DM, email or Discord?
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Relaxing treatment of non-notes by Mastodon@julian This is totally not about growth hacking or engagement
Users see some content, click on it, then end up with a new UI, see a reply button, click on it, and are asked to create a new account, or to sign up (but not with their initial account). Our user testing (and many feedback) points that this is a very common issue with AP federation at the moment, even between Mastodon instances.
Not many people understand what is the federation and how to work around it -
Relaxing treatment of non-notes by Mastodon@julian We are doing our best to improve our implementation where we can, but it often requires a lot more work than what it initially seems. PRs are very welcome, but should probably be preceded by reaching out to us and seeing if we agree with the proposed implementation, and if it covers everything that it needs to
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Relaxing treatment of non-notes by Mastodon@julian An issue we have with redirecting the user to the original post is that it makes it very hard for the user to interact with the post. We still want to improve this (in 4.4?) but are still very short on resources.
We discussed changing the "read more" button to open a modal, and (is this a good idea?) supporting an AP attribute with an iframe suitable for embedding the content, and changing the show more button to open a modal with this iframe -
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