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Föderation EN Mo 14.08.2023 00:06:01 Is it time for hashtags to evolve? Well, they're about to on Mastodon due to an upcoming change in v4.2.0, advanced by @Gargron himself. I have some thoughts. |
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Föderation EN Mo 14.08.2023 00:18:58 @chrismessina No, that change cannot be tested in beta 1, it's not merged. The person you're citing is completely misguided, the change has nothing to do with what they're observing -- in fact, the change would fix their problem, as tags authored in non-Mastodon software that are not included in the body of the post would become visible for the first time. My change would also not remove a hashtag from the end of a paragraph. Only if you put it on its own line. |
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Föderation EN Mo 14.08.2023 00:43:40 @Gargron I think the person I'm citing is myself? Do you have a set of tests I can look at to better understand the behavior you've designed? I was relying on the screenshots in the Github issue. Also, I was unaware of this: "as tags authored in non-Mastodon software that are not included in the body of the post would become visible for the first time"; are you saying that ActivityPub already supports non-inline tags on posts? |
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Föderation EN Mo 14.08.2023 00:48:27 @chrismessina No, Vince Aggrippino. It's simple, if the end of the post is just hashtags, beginning with a newline, they are not rendered in the body. Yes, it does. |
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Föderation EN Mo 14.08.2023 00:54:19 @Gargron Got it. That does nullify one of my critiques. Glad to hear it. I maintain that the behavior introduced with this change should be optional and opt-in by default, and that additional capabilities for hashtags and adding metadata should be explored, as the rest of my post suggests. I will update my post within 48 hours to clarify. |
