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Zak@lemmy.world 2 months agoWhen a substantial fraction of users are actually using an appview with that trait, that will be great.
Comment on Mastodon is bringing quote posts to the fediverse
Zak@lemmy.world 2 months agoWhen a substantial fraction of users are actually using an appview with that trait, that will be great.
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Sure, but its not a fault of the protocol itself. You could easily choose to discard
articleornoteobjects on ActivityPub.Zak@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You can write software to filter on arbitrary criteria with ActivityPub, or email, or IRC, or virtually any other protocol. My point is that ATProto is designed to actively encourage it, and the flagship implementation does so. Subtle hints in interfaces have a big impact on how people, including developers use software.