I would bet actual money that I've got some nuance of Mastodon's functionality wrong in there so when you see that please do lmk. I thought about asking instance-running friends to preview it but I've taken up enough of their time this week.

@kissane I think you got the tech nuances pretty right on actually. Maybe worth a note there that quote posts, and full text search, and filling in replies that are missing now have pretty much full consensus that they all need to be fixed, and added and are all in some part of the roadmap to add.

@tchambers I thought I'd kind of gestured toward that, but maybe it's on the cutting room floor, there are so many words Tim

@kissane @tchambers You need to learn about sidenotes. Because I liked all those words and wouldn't have minded more of them.

@vivtek
@kissane @tchambers
it's a bit beside the point, but +1 for sidenotes. it's sort of janky/not packaged, but if you use eg. markdown footnotes I modified this from someone else's version and this works p well:
https://github.com/sneakers-the-rat/surveillance-graphs/blob/main/assets/js/sidenote.js
see an example at
https://jon-e.net/surveillance-graphs

@jonny @vivtek @tchambers the funny thing here is that I've already implemented asides as sidenotes on the site, having noodled around in various sidenotes libraries for like a solid three days before I put it up 😅