Notices by Mark Prior (markrprior@ohai.social)

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@goatsarah @jupiter_rowland @mike Prefixing this with the comment that I haven't read the ActivityPub spec nor the Mastodon source but based on my experience developing Internet standards.
Mastodon Clients are communicating with Mastodon Servers via the Mastodon API (with some nodeinfo API thrown in to know it's Mastodon probably). This will define what they see as the content of a message and how they render a message. It won't matter to them if the message started out in a richer format.

@goatsarah @jupiter_rowland @mike The Mastodon server has done a transformation of the message it received via ActivityPub and has stored it as a Mastodon formatted message. It is serving this message to its clients and not the original message.

@goatsarah @jupiter_rowland yes my point was that at the moment if you ask Mastodon to do microblogging stuff within its advertised constraints then it works. If you expect it to do "out of scope" stuff then expect the unexpected if anything at all.

@jupiter_rowland @goatsarah It sounds like you want to force Mastodon to support features that are out of its scope because "your software" does them. As far as I know Mastodon doesn't try to pretend to be anything but a microblogging platform and that comes with some constraints. Perhaps you need to develop a capability exchange protocol to determine what can be exchanged and then work out a solution within those constraints? Of course Mastodon would point you at its instance API.

@MetalSamurai @maegul @atomicpoet I'm pretty sure that IceCubes handles long posts OK, you've just got to be on an instance that has increased the toot limit. There are a number with it set at 5,000 and then there is infosec.exchange at 11,000.

@atomicpoet @dilectric but could Mastodon know that via some mechanism? i.e. is calckey sending something that mastodon just doesn't understand?

@atomicpoet @dilectric does a message include that sort of information or would it need to be fetched?