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@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 »?