Hi #Fediverse #activitypub devs, @cwebber @rhiaro et al..
We're slowly evaluating underused actor types like as:Group and as:Organization and also, with an influx of new users, we are evaluating more powerful ways to moderate our communities.
Are we approaching this at the right level?
Aren't we working in different domains that do not so neatly fit the Microblogging capabilities on which #mastodon and #pleroma have thrived?
Is it time to define what Community means?
@humanetech @cwebber @rhiaro I'm making real groups in #Smithereen right now. This is what they presently look like in the UI. A warning though: this implementation will be mostly incompatible with the existing microblogging software. You will be able to join and leave them but not much else.
@grishka @humanetech @cwebber @rhiaro
So is this something that could, at some point be merged in to Mastodon and implemented here too?
@zleap @humanetech @cwebber @rhiaro not necessarily. I think it's fine to have feature disparity between different implementations. Mastodon's goal is to be a microblogging service, not a full-blown Facebook-style social network. The only thing that is needed is capability negotiation/detection just so you don't try to do actions that a remote server doesn't support.
@grishka @humanetech @cwebber @rhiaro @freemo
ah sounds good, yeah i think that allows mastodon, to at least, probably quite easily expand the number of characters it will allow, which is good future proofing.
@zleap @humanetech @cwebber @rhiaro @freemo well, Smithereen's theoretical post length limit is 65536 characters (or unicode codepoints?) because that's how much fits into a TEXT column in MySQL. If someone sends a longer post, it would get truncated. The Mastodon's 500-character limit is entirely artificial to make the UX more twittery and it's perfectly capable of storing and displaying posts that are much longer, I tested that.