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Our fediverse conversations are gonna have the context they have been missing! (community.nodebb.org)

submitted 3 weeks ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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This past June, I put together a write-up about two major approaches to backfilling conversations. The ability to properly backfill conversations means we will be able to make major inroads toward solving the feeling that the fediverse is quiet.

I, alongside several other members of the SWICG Forums and Threaded Discussions Task Force (ForumWG) have been working toward building implementor support for Conversational Contexts — the ability to explicitly classify a set of objects as belonging to a conversation, whether that be a topic, reply tree, or similar.

I am happy to report that we have made some wonderful inroads this past few months!

jesseplusplus@mastodon.social has been working closely with the Mastodon team to allow software to backfill from Mastodon — this pull request has now been approved!

I have been working with both nutomic@lemmy.ml and rimu@piefed.social to allow software to backfill from Lemmy and Piefed, respectively. (Lemmy PR, Piefed issue)

This marks a major milestone in the adoption of conversational contexts. With Mastodon on board backfill will be possible with the majority of the microblogiverse. With Lemmy and Piefed on board, backfill will be possible with the majority of the threadiverse.

Remember that pfefferle@mastodon.social was an early adopter of conversational contexts, and we have been able to backfill from WordPress blogs for quite awhile now (so that's the blogiverse too)

I for one, am eagerly awaiting the next version of all of these softwares!!

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[-] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 18 points 3 weeks ago

It may still be missing stuff from before the first person from your home instance joined the community which can make younger communities feel empty.

[-] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 weeks ago

Ah ok. That's the problem that the major instances solved by having bots auto join all new communities in each other, right?

[-] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yup, this removes that need.

Edited to add: and more BTW, including addressing brief network outages messing with sync and other issues, depending on the server type/activitypub implementation.