Post AyJ6GXPWxtb6Zc6vHk by reiver@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #AyJ512477mQ33k8TIm by wjmaggos@liberal.city
2025-09-17T19:24:19Z
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When articles, videos and podcasts are native #ActivityPub, maybe people will just boost them directly instead of everybody writing their own posts linking to them. I really wish quote boosts had this functionality in mind. Same with podcatchers, video players and reader apps in the future. Show me what's most boosted in my social graph of the content type you're designed for.Making all media management better and attention more democratically allocated is the "killer app" of the #SocialWeb.
(DIR) Post #AyJ5U9BHkPefWgNBZo by silverpill@mitra.social
2025-09-17T19:29:13.327967Z
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@wjmaggos Videos and articles can be boosted and quoted... Unless you're on Mastodon.
(DIR) Post #AyJ5prDzBpaKCpzLeq by wjmaggos@liberal.city
2025-09-17T19:33:31Z
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@silverpill but the article or video has to be native AP.
(DIR) Post #AyJ5vokLJfikG2xtp2 by mpjgregoire@cosocial.ca
2025-09-17T19:34:28Z
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@wjmaggos Are you sure quote posts won't do what you have in mind?
(DIR) Post #AyJ6GXPWxtb6Zc6vHk by reiver@mastodon.social
2025-09-17T19:38:18Z
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@wjmaggos Maybe what @silverpill was trying to say was — ActivityPub already has support for them (articles, videos, podcasts):https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-articlehttps://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-videohttps://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-audioBut, you are correct, that — their software would have to output ActivityPub data when called with "Accept: application/activity+json".
(DIR) Post #AyJ6YkulUsPjfQPJDM by wjmaggos@liberal.city
2025-09-17T19:41:37Z
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@mpjgregoire they might. my thought is a quote post is actually a quote boost and the priority is on it being a boost.your followers should see the boost but also it should make sure they see your quote too. for others, your quote is just a reply.in my dream world, we have the virality of boosts (old school twitter etc) but dealing with posts should mostly work like reddit. ranking comments. hashtags like subreddits etc.
(DIR) Post #AyJ8MhfVwJR427eday by silverpill@mitra.social
2025-09-17T20:01:25.992133Z
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@reiver @wjmaggos Yes, and ActivityPub-enabled software that produces these documents already exists. I'll quote a Video and an Article here:quote 1quote 2Quotes won't be displayed in Mastodon, but you can view them on my site.
(DIR) Post #AyJ9WgqpvvKSLeHCMa by wjmaggos@liberal.city
2025-09-17T20:14:47Z
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@silverpill @reiver we need to add podcasts and have player apps interface directly.could we enable podcatchers to follow an AP account that posts podcasts and handle it just like it does an RSS podcast feed, but also let us boost back to my social graph and add replies? etc etc. same thing I want from my article reader app @wallabag.
(DIR) Post #AyJUcGVesilPQTs0gq by silverpill@mitra.social
2025-09-18T00:10:44.879242Z
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@wjmaggos @reiver I am not very familiar with podcasting universe but maybe this is already possible with podcastindex?It seems to work like a bridge, and its podcast announcements can be boosted like regular posts. I can't link to a specific post (their server returns an error right now), but here's an example of a podcast actor: @920666I don't know if it supports replies, IIRC there are other podcast apps that do support them.cc @dave