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:abunhdhappyhop: :abunhdhappy: :abunhdhop: :abunhd: :abunhdhappyhop: :abunhdhappy: (kaniini@pleroma.site)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Apr-2019 07:57:38 UTC :abunhdhappyhop: :abunhdhappy: :abunhdhop: :abunhd: :abunhdhappyhop: :abunhdhappy: @natecull maybe if you compare to Mastodon and the big ones. Pleroma has excellent threading. -
Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Apr-2019 08:01:53 UTC Nate Cull @kaniini It's not *threading* but *excerpting* that's the empty hole at the moment.
Eg, we have well-understood semantics for basically three types of Internet / social media content right now:
* text (mostly raw text; Markdown if you're very, very lucky)
* URLs
* images (for some reason; they just sorta got grandfathered in because sharing photos is what a lot of people do on mobile)
And the problem is that everyone abuses 'images' for all data that doesn't fit in those three types.
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Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Apr-2019 08:02:48 UTC Nate Cull @kaniini If we had something like, eg, 'URL, but, just the text at some sub-location', that might help.
HTML 'anchors' are almost entirely useless for this purpose, even though it was sorta what they were invented for.
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Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Apr-2019 08:05:46 UTC Nate Cull @kaniini and even then, anything URL based is likely to vanish or change randomly.
so it's the problem of "how do I point to a piece of content X on another website, or inside a file like a PDF, not the whole document, prove attribution that it's real, and also preserve it for future reference"
And so far the only answers have been "use Internet Startup Y" and Internet Startup Y generally goes out of business within five years.
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