I think I would rather end up using various kinds of self-administered ActivityPub websites rather than Mastodon
I just will only ever think of “social“ posts as throwaway little messages, and letting my website posts extend into those seems great, and like I sort of miss blog comments, but I don’t feel like I really need to “be there” on whatever kind of future social-media-like place there is
I haven’t really figured out how replying works in this model, but I think the way I’d want it to look is that I follow every kind of thing in one reading app, and that app is authenticated with my website to create posts that other ActivityPub servers see as replies, and on my site are like hidden blog posts or something
I don’t know if all these universal timeline apps are planning to implement replying, but I sure hope they are
@jon this is pretty much Micro.blog. Shockingly close.
@jsonbecker I know, but I need each site to have its own set of features and its own data models and whatnot.
@jon my site is the authentication. It has an AP stream. I can follow AP accounts. Replies are possible through AP (Bluesky two way too). Replies are optionally on your blog (mine are not). Short posts are optionally on your blog (mine are, but just on the home index. I hide them from archives). I don’t use MB for my AP setup really but one could. Of course, it doesn’t permit reposting or likes by philosophy.
@jsonbecker I would want those things, but I think they could be rigged up as special kinds of post types or attributes of links or something
@jsonbecker I mean, I still have no idea how mastodons native quote posting Is supposed to work so I should hold my tongue