MediaFormatAbout 2 years ago I wrote about the UX of links on the Fediverse.
At the time only a few mobile apps supported opening Fediverse links in-app, but this only worked for mastodon links.
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Opening links to other servers, in-app, is a much more common pattern now, which is great because we can open links from Lemmy, Peertube, etc.
One place this isn't working well, is for #wordpress, it's often the opposite problem!
Mainly because Mastodon handles `Articles` so poorly
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The plugin worked around this by providing a template to allow publishing as a `Note` with a link to the full post, and additional tokens.
But this link, fetched with ActivityPub still shows the same `Note`, this is like content-negotiation hell
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Though now that Mastodon 4.2 accepts Rich Text perhaps it's time for Mastodon to update its `Article` type Transformer, and just support it natively?
We can live with images being stripped from content and tacked to the end, right?
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wakest likes your bugs ⁂@mediaformat please please please lol
@liaizon right?
I ended up making a callout for a working group but then got busy with other stuff.
https://mediaformat.org/wordress-activitypub/article-working-group/
@mediaformat what can we do to push this forward? Seems silly we haven't made more progress on this in the past 4 years
Here is an example of the behaviour outlined above, using FediText