Help me out, Fedifriends
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Help me out, Fedifriends.
In the last week I've had three different dipships complain that the posts by @blog are too long for the fediverse.
How can I make it more obvious that it is an automated blog syndication account?
Its account is literally `@ blog`.
Its name is "Terence Eden's blog".
Its description says it is a blog.Should I change the avatar? Add a banner?
Or just accept that some people don't/won't understand that it is a long-form account?
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Help me out, Fedifriends.
In the last week I've had three different dipships complain that the posts by @blog are too long for the fediverse.
How can I make it more obvious that it is an automated blog syndication account?
Its account is literally `@ blog`.
Its name is "Terence Eden's blog".
Its description says it is a blog.Should I change the avatar? Add a banner?
Or just accept that some people don't/won't understand that it is a long-form account?
@Edent How important is it to you that Mastodon readers continue to get the full inline text?
There's FEP-b2b8 that resulted from work by long-form AP platforms and the Mastodon team, on a standard to federate long posts with embedded short-form previews. Readers on long-form AP platforms get the whole article, Mastodon shows a teaser and link. Should be a setting in the WP plugin somewhere (right @pfefferle?).
Can't simultaneously have this and full-length inline posts in Mastodon though.
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@Edent How important is it to you that Mastodon readers continue to get the full inline text?
There's FEP-b2b8 that resulted from work by long-form AP platforms and the Mastodon team, on a standard to federate long posts with embedded short-form previews. Readers on long-form AP platforms get the whole article, Mastodon shows a teaser and link. Should be a setting in the WP plugin somewhere (right @pfefferle?).
Can't simultaneously have this and full-length inline posts in Mastodon though.
@julian @Edent yes, you can configure the plugin to use the auto-mode. this way, the plugin tries to find the best representation for the content, based on the Post-Format (Article, Status, Video, Audio, ...) the length of the text, if the text has a title or not, ...
For long-form content it sends the excerpt (autgenerated or set in the editor) as summary and the full content as content. This way the receiving instance can decide what to show. btw. Mastodon shows the summary in this case.