Notices by mat (mat@friendica.exon.name)

@pfefferle @julian @nutomic After the last conversation I saw, I was movitated enough to write a whole philosophical treatise on the subject: fedi.exon.name/2024/04/21/conv…

The conclusion I came to: Mastodon is probably more-or-less doing the right thing by refusing to render articles, but perhaps it would be nice to have a pop-out view for reading them. Friendica and Wordpress, however, would do better to give authors explicit control over the post type of each individual object.

@pfefferle @daniel Trouble is I can't find a support forum. There's an email contact form, but it seems to be for their training? There's a trac, but it's under the wordpress.com domain. There seem to be recent releases, I just don't quite grok their process.

It's not that important, mind you. My shim is just a proof of concept and I'm not committing to actually implementing something usable 😳 Main point: delegation works, the potential is there 🎊

@pfefferle @daniel For star/like, there are existing WP plugins that add like buttons. The way I imagined this working was cooperating with an existing plugin. So the AP plugin calls a hook to say "just got a like for this thing". If you don't have a "like" plugin nothing happens, but if something's listening the like shows up on the page.

I say this because I'm involved with a WP events site and really interested in AP's "event" feature. But you wouldn't want the AP plugin to implement the details itself. If you take the approach of delegating wherever possible, the WP ecosystem could enable all kinds of cool stuff while keeping the AP plugin itself lean.