One thing that makes me slightly cranky about long-form Article content in the #Fediverse: certain kinds of formatting still don’t get accounted for when dispatching posts. Like, if I put a little gallery of images together in the page, it doesn’t really get recognized as such on the receiving end.
It’s not the worst thing ever, I’m just being nitpicky. I put a lot of work into making stuff look right on my site.
I’m not sure what the actual solution should be. Either we adopt a weird subset of HTML specifically for different ways to display content in articles, or we just render a remote view of the page somewhere and make it possible to comment with Nomadic Identity.
@deadsuperhero keep in mind that there are huge advantages to letting people control their own experiences, even if that means the publisher doesn't get to control what people experience.
This is part of the whole distributed nature that so many people want to see.
It's the same as not wanting algorithms controlling experiences, different people want the content displayed to them differently, whether because of personal stylistic preferences or even because of things like accessibility to folks with sensory differences.
Yes, the trade-off is that the publisher doesn't get to dictate how things show up to the user. But that's not all bad.
@volkris @deadsuperhero
Some ActivityPub clients already implement some kind of choice in that sense.
In "Trunks" (android and web), you can decide to display only the first x characters of a very long post.
Same thing in Phanpy but here you can not choose.
For instance, I still want to be able to read short contents on Mastodon and long one in RSS. But just my preference.