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   dansup (dansup@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 18:07:54 JST dansup

   So when you tap on a Story, before it loads you are shown a warning that indicates that the Story author will see that you viewed it.

   Story authors will be able to see who viewed, and this is a fair compromise for Follower-only Stories.

   For Public Stories, I'm debating logging views as the context isn't as meaningful.

   What do you think? #askFedi #pixelfed

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     dansup (dansup@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 19:41:25 JST dansup

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     • Christo

     @christo Not for public stories as they can be viewed without being logged in, and to properly count those views we'd need to track guests via IP or fingerprints and I don't think it's worth it tbh.

     We don't want to emulate the privacy invasive tracking endemic in IG and other platforms.

     Does that sound fair?

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     Christo (christo@dice.camp)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 19:41:26 JST Christo

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     @dansup

     I expect you're still going to capture the count of views, even if not the users who viewed in that case?

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     Radu (crates@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 19:43:12 JST Radu

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     @dansup i’d still like to see who viewed even for public stories. Or maybe it can be opt-in / opt-out

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     dansup (dansup@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 19:44:02 JST dansup

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     • Radu

     @Crates See https://mastodon.social/@dansup/110966818829221449

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     Radu (crates@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 19:48:55 JST Radu

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     @dansup is there a way to count views for logged in users, and plays from outside? This might be a bit convoluted code-wise