Tim Chambers
Free idea: #Ghost and #WordPress blog posts that federate out should in the publishing UX suggest that authors add the optional hashtag #Fediblog to the post. Not mandatory, just a nudge.
Would greatly help with the discovery of cool blogs to follow here. cc: @pfefferle @index
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Matthias Pfefferle
@tchambers @index nice idea 😍
Matthias Pfefferle
@tchambers @index is there some history to that? something we can refer to?
Robert Kingett
@tchambers @pfefferle @index I love this idea!
Elena Brescacin
@tchambers @pfefferle @index Oh, I'm really glad you talked about this "fediblog" tag. I'll add it to my posts. Even re-publishing old ones if necessary! Thanks to folks who brought this up!
Pelle Wessman
@tchambers What should they add to indicate that they have RSS?
Jeremy Herve
@voxpelli @tchambers Since both WordPress and Ghost sites support RSS out of the box, I don’t think you need an indicator. 🙂
Now, should we add the tag to long-form content only, or to any posts published via Ghost or WordPress (like this one)?
Tim Chambers
Jeremy Herve
@voxpelli@mastodon.social @voxpelli @tchambers I think it would quickly become quite noisy. Imagine if I added the hashtag to each one of my replies in this thread, or if one added the hashtag in a reply to a thread talking about something completely unrelated?
Similarly, should all GoToSocial users add a specific hashtag to all their posts?
I think the platform used to communicate should not matter, the content is what’s really important.
Pelle Wessman
@jeremy @tchambers Yeah, not sure it makes more or less sense to add a specific tag to all ActivityPub enabled content though
Tim Chambers
@jeremy I think the better analogy isn't GoToSocial but rather that different TYPES of content might tag based on what they were. Longer form posts specifically from blogs, being #Fediblog tagged, Wikipedia articles that federated could tag as #Wiki and federated podcasts episodes could tag as #fedicast or #podcast
Jeremy Herve
@tchambers@indieweb.social @voxpelli@mastodon.social Yeah, that makes sense, thanks for expanding on that!
It would be a workaround to get publication type displayed alongside the publication.
ActivityPub already comes with object types: « Note » for status updates, « Question », « Page », « Image », « Audio », « Video », « Event », and « Article » which is a good descriptor for long-form content I think.
I know some Fediverse solutions (like WordPress) allow you to set a different object type depending on the content.
Some Fediverse clients also try to display the content differently based on the object type.
I am assuming others have made that suggestion before, but maybe it would be interesting for the main Fediverse clients like the Mastodon UI / app to clearly display the object type next to the content.
This is probably even more important for object types that are close to each other. If you see an « Image » post on the Fediverse you immediately know what it is. If you see a « Note » or an « Article » however, only the length really differentiates them (if you’re lucky, since some Fediverse clients like Mastodon are built for Notes and do not even want to display full posts).
All this to say, I am all for adding an obvious sign next to long-form content to indicate that 🙂 . Until Fediverse clients do it, a hashtag can work! I’ll try to remember to do it for my next posts (but only the long ones, « Notes » don’t need to be tagged as #Fediblog!)
@pfefferle We’ve talked about adding the hashtag to federated WordPress posts ; what if the option only added it to « Article » publication types, to avoid tagging short updates or shared pictures as « Fediblog »?
Matthias Pfefferle
@jeremy @voxpelli good point! I will update the PR on monday and see how I can improve it to be a bit less noisy/general.
Tim Chambers
@jeremy @pfefferle Love this.
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