Been pondering the change in the #activitypub #wordpress plugin to depreciate Template Tags and (presumably eventually) only federate WP posts as Article objects
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@pfefferle @heathenstorm @julian @matt we’ve seen some other/different strangeness - like update activities trigger posts returning to the top of the feed in mastodon as if they’re new. So when someone edits a bunch of posts from 5 years ago, it sometimes floods the feeds of followers
@johnonolan @pfefferle @heathenstorm @julian @matt yes I also experienced an old post re-appearing as brand new in the Fediverse after I updated the original article. If you'd like I can re-test it now (I've got 3 federated Wordpress blogs) 🤗
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@pfefferle @heathenstorm @julian @matt we’ve seen some other/different strangeness - like update activities trigger posts returning to the top of the feed in mastodon as if they’re new. So when someone edits a bunch of posts from 5 years ago, it sometimes floods the feeds of followers
johnonolan@mastodon.xyz pfefferle@mastodon.social elena@aseachange.com only for Articles?!
I haven't seen this myself but I don't edit my topics much after they're out there.
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@julian @pfefferle @elena not sure! It could make more sense for notes - I think - I’m guessing not many people edit really old notes in the way they do for articles, so it’s more likely to be a recent edit/update(?) I’m just guessing though
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@julian @pfefferle @elena not sure! It could make more sense for notes - I think - I’m guessing not many people edit really old notes in the way they do for articles, so it’s more likely to be a recent edit/update(?) I’m just guessing though
elena@aseachange.com could it be that you're editing an article that had never been federated before (aka predates the AP plugin)?
In that case the published update might be the first time a Mastodon instance sees it, and it might promote it to the top of the feed even if it's many years old?
pfefferle@mastodon.social johnonolan@mastodon.xyz heathenstorm@mastodon.social
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@julian @elena @pfefferle @heathenstorm ohhh that’s a great hypothesis. I hadn’t thought of that. Yes, high probability.
Though, still an interesting wrinkle where I would expect the feed to be sorted by published_at rather than created_at - if you know what I mean
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heathenstorm@mastodon.social Am confirming that when NodeBB sends an Update, it is processed by other NodeBBs, but Mastodon does not update the status.
cc elena@aseachange.com johnonolan@mastodon.xyz pfefferle@mastodon.social
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@julian @elena @pfefferle @heathenstorm ohhh that’s a great hypothesis. I hadn’t thought of that. Yes, high probability.
Though, still an interesting wrinkle where I would expect the feed to be sorted by published_at rather than created_at - if you know what I mean
@johnonolan @julian @pfefferle @heathenstorm ooooh interesting theory! I can do some A/B testing tomorrow
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@julian @elena @johnonolan @heathenstorm but I experienced that Mastodon ignores `Update`s for posts that where not `Create`ed before...
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@julian @elena @johnonolan @heathenstorm but I experienced that Mastodon ignores `Update`s for posts that where not `Create`ed before...
@julian @elena @johnonolan @heathenstorm so much guessing 🫣
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@julian @elena @johnonolan @heathenstorm so much guessing 🫣
@pfefferle @julian @johnonolan @heathenstorm so I just tested this... I updated an old blog post (from 2023) before the site was ever federated... and it just popped up in my Mastodon feed (see photo) as if I had just published it...
The blog has all the latest versions of plugins installed (ActivityPub for Wordpress included).
original link: https://therealists.org/2023/04/aligning-our-life-goals-with-our-technology-use/