let's bring #longform (text) support to the #photoverse
(this is not (mainly) about long texts on #pixelfed or #vernissage (they can both fall back to show the summary), it is about supporting image posts with the object type: `Article`)
* https://github.com/VernissageApp/VernissageServer/pull/442
* https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/pull/6458
https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/b2b8/fep-b2b8.md
@pfefferle I see. Yeah, in Micro.blog we often have long-form blog posts that are actually a photo album: a title, maybe a little bit of text, and a dozen photos.
@pfefferle This is a nice FEP. I’ve been waiting to support Article until I had a better idea of how Mastodon handles displaying them. Have y’all done much testing of that?
@manton It works quite nice on most of the text based platforms, but as I learned with my toot: we have to improve the way how blogs can best interop with the #photoverse without beeing spammy or federate unrelated featured/stock images.
@pfefferle@mastodon.social Boo, Pixelfed is for pictures, don’t fuck up a replacement for instagram with extraneous bullshit just because a rare user wants their own vision to screw things up for the real users, photographers and photographer’s aficionados.
@jaypeach53 thanks for your feedback!
@pfefferle i think pixelfed is the wrong client/platform if you want to read articles
The more we keep thinking in terms of "platforms", the longer it will take us to make the open social web a reality.
PixelFed-the-backend could well be a "Generic" ActivityPub Server, separate from "PixelFed the nice way to browse and organize image posts".
@ricferrer as I said in my toot "(this is not (mainly) about long texts on #pixelfed or #vernissage (they can both fall back to show the summary), it is about supporting image posts with the object type: `Article`)"
@pfefferle thanks for clarifying. The image in the object article is secondary and I think it doesn’t make sense without the context of the article where it’s attached. I just don’t see the real value in seeing jt my feed. Specifically because sometimes the images for articles are a bit random, are stock photos or even graphics to try to depict the concept of the article.
@ricferrer but that is not the point of the discussion! this is already a problem, because if you change the post type to `Note`, pixelfed will show it, even with the full text.
If spam or unrelevant images are the problem, than this can not (only) be fixed by blocking the `Article` type.
