Admin dell’istanza poliversity :poly: dedicata alla ricerca scientifica, all’istruzione e al giornalismo. Sostenitore della #privacy, dell’ #anonimato, del diritto alla #conoscenza, del software libero. Sono quello di Informapirata :infopp: Poliverso :polo: Feddit :feddit: e Citiverse :citiverse:

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  • @OpenStars

    I am not sure that you would get this unless I add your user tag @macfranc ?

    Yes, I’d still get it, even if you didn’t mention me. The problem arises when you reply to someone who replied to me: in that case, I might not receive the notification. Unfortunately (as often happens), the fault lies with Mastodon, not Lemmy/Piefed.

    It is not your fault. The entire Fediverse is still being built, and it only gets better over time.:-) The fact that Lemmy + PieFed + mBin + nodeBB can intercommunicate at all is fantastic, even though yes there are some kinks remaining to be worked out:-).

    I also believe this statement. Since I’ve been an instance administrator (Friendica, Lemmy, NodeBB, and Mastodon Glitch-soc), I’ve always been concerned with how the Fediverse software integrates with each other and with spreading knowledge of the various platforms

    My intention was to make light of the reasoning behind criticism of your post, while pointing out to Threadiverse users that once you get past that, the actual content is quite solid. So less “wall of text” than merely “odd-looking introduction”. It’s a good post!

    Thank you for your feedback. It’s somewhere between a press release and an informational post about the Fediverse. I’m only surprised because, usually, the criticisms about length come from Mastodon users, not Lemmy users…

    And yeah the giant text looks weird, haha! 😂

    Usually, the problem is solved at the user interface level. BBCode and Markdown have a certain number of standard levels for titles, and it’s up to the final interpreter (the interface) to manage their display based on the tool (desktop browser, mobile browser, mobile app, etc.).

    Especially since at first it is a repeat of the title, but then goes into new territory after that. I do not know if there is anything that can be done about it though, except further code development on the side of all the myriad varieties of recipients of the message.

    Repeating the title, on the other hand, is the best possible solution for integrating threads opened in the forumverse by microblogging users: Lemmy takes the first 200 characters of the first paragraph and converts them into a title, disabling formatting, links, and mentions. That data, however, is re-proposed at the beginning of the post text.
    I understand there are some issues, but I don’t see any better solution than this.

    I should add that, unfortunately, Mastodon’s recent implementation of quoted posts has made it difficult for Lemmy to manage opening posts, because Mastodon formats posts that quote another post as:

    Re: fedilinkhttpsPost text
    

    And therefore, the title of a Lemmy thread would become
    "Re: fedilinkhttps" 🤬