Hey, Federation!

[solarbird]

Should I keep posting excerpts over for Federation, or would it be better if I just federated entire posts?

This isn’t Patreon I’m not getting paid and there isn’t any exclusive content. (Tho’ I do maintain a Patreon, sorta, if anyone wants to throw me money, and a few people do and I very much appreciate that, thank you!)

Mastodon automatically cuts very long posts, adding with a clickthrough if you want to see the whole thing, so if you’re on there, it wouldn’t crush your feeds. kbin doesn’t, but that’s fine, it’s mostly an issue on microblogging platforms.

I don’t know what the Misskey variants do.

Anyway, do you have opinions?

(Including Dreamwidth on this post even though they don’t federate. You’re gonna keep getting the whole posts regardless. ^_^ )

Posted via Solarbird{y|z|yz}, Collected.

Comments

[wrog]

So I'm guessing this is not going to make any difference for me, since I either see stuff on dreamwidth or on mastodon (which auto-cuts if I understand this correctly)?

[solarbird]

Mastodon auto-cuts long posts, yeah, I think at about 500 characters.

Right now of course I'm having ActivityPub federate little excerpts and a link. And that works, but it does mean an extra click which stops about half the people (overall, common understanding) who might read your thing from actually reading it.

[kathmandu]

"You’re gonna keep getting the whole posts regardless."

: )

[solarbird]

I mean, this is a blog site. That's what people expect from a blog site.

The Federation is a really interesting and strange thing that has a fucktonne of potential, but the largest applications riding it so far are Twitterlikes, and they don't expect blog posts.

(Although do get them sometimes anyway.)

[julian]

"You’re gonna keep getting the whole posts regardless."

Goooood.

[solarbird]

^_^