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   hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 25-Nov-2022 13:50:49 JST hypolite

   • Grischa
   @grischa So, I poked around the mail (private message) feature and I must have kicked a hornet's nest or something because boy did I get stung.
   
   The mail feature is used to handle private messages from/to Friendica, Mastodon, Pleroma or Diaspora, and I can't say for sure that all of them can skip the title. Additionally, mails can be submitted through a Twitter endpoint that seemingly provides a title despite none showing in the actual Twitter interface?
   
   As a result, I can't enact the plan we talked about to allow to send blank subjects (to avoid Content Warnings) and deriving displayed subjects from the body when listing blank subject mail records.
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     hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 25-Nov-2022 21:36:39 JST hypolite

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     • Grischa
     @grischa Where it gets dicier is that we use ActivityPub for both Friendica, Mastodon and Pleroma. We make use of a title while Mastodon and Pleroma do not. but we don’t differentiate in the code depending on the target platform.
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     Grischa (grischa@friends.brockha.us)'s status on Friday, 25-Nov-2022 21:36:41 JST Grischa

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     • Grischa
     @hypolite I understand. It is not easy as there are so many connection types.
     Best practice would be to handle "specialities" inside the connector addons. I know that AP services don't need the subject and interpret them as CW when found (tested mastodon, pleroma, hubzilla), as DMs are normal posts to mentioned accounts only normally.
     How diaspora or twitter handles them, if they need or use them at all, I can not say of course. But would be cool to not have content put to the post in general, only when really needed (for that: in connector addons).
     
     But I understand of course, that you core devs really have no time to do all that. Maybe "between the years" (like we Germans say) is time for me to install a dev environment for core source.. :)