Wondering if anyone would ever be willing to pay for a “pro” version of #ShareOnMastodon, seeing how niche it is.
I was thinking multi-author support, which is something (independent) magazine-style sites might find useful. Or even sharing to more than one account.
Or (better) blocks (sporting a link preview or something), like to make it clear(er) that a post can be interacted with on Mastodon.
Or threading.
Or crossposting audio and video.
All things I’m pretty excited about (and I occasionally get requests for such features), but, also, it’s quite a bit of work (even for such a small plugin).
Then again, semi-professional publications probably just use Jetpack, which does something similar, so maybe I shouldn’t, like, expect very much. (Not sure what exactly it is Jetpack offers, and I don’t necessarily care, but I thought it at least had the ability to share [full-text] “notes.”)
Plus, obviously, if the ActivityPub plugin keeps improving, there’s going to be a point where folks will just use that.
I mean, if you have a (paid) plan on WP.com, you’d just use that, right? No need to maintain a separate Fediverse account (or server, even). Especially if you’re mostly “broadcasting.”
Jan Boddez