Hey, yeah, please tell the Linux Nerds people to turn on federation!
Tell them Julian from NodeBB will help them get started 🤓
Thanks. Yes, this is just how Mastodon renders content from Lemmy and Piefed at the moment.
Mastodon sees something that is not a Note, and says "I will treat it using a fallback mechanism. If it has a title, it is added to the top, I will add the URL back to the site at the bottom. If it has a summary, I will use that as the content"
Note that it does not use content, that's why there's no actual content. This is why the link preview also links back to Lemmy, not to the article itself.
nutomic@lemmy.ml and rimu@piefed.social can add this to their software, respectively, by populating summary. It can just be a copy of content, or it can be a summarization... or it could be the link to the article... anything goes really.
otter@lemmy.ca perhaps the quote posts are not related but some other changes bundled in that version release are?
Can you share the instance that user was on? It's worth checking out how their instance sees your post.
Mastodon did improve some non-Note handling characteristics, so it could be related!
Piefed would do an on-demand pull of the content.
I notice nobody responded to you... yes notifications work fine on PWAs. No additional apps required.
NodeBB has supported them for a couple years, and Piefed can do so with some effort too. rimu@piefed.social happy to discuss how we did it — all standard web tools!
I am not 100% sure there is iOS support, though. Supposedly there is, but we got some reports saying otherwise.
Lemmy and Mastodon can interact (yay federation!) but you can't follow microblog users from Lemmy.
Up until recently, communities couldn't follow other communities, because it's just not a "thing" Lemmy or Piefed do. Users follow communities, yeah?
Except NodeBB tries to have communities follow communities. :)
blaze@lemmy.zip there's nothing specifically precluding Lemmy and Piefed from following users.
You can follow users on NodeBB, and in fact because I did worked on Mastodon microblog interop first, the software only gained the ability to follow a category relatively recently.
So dessalines@lemmy.ml has a point about it all being the fediverse, because some of what separates Lemmy/Piefed/mbin and Mastodon are artificial.
Combining notification streams is precisely the mission statement of UnifiedPush.
The fact that you name dropped NodeBB (a good example), Flarum (which has no working federation), but did not mention Discourse (which has only partially working federation and limited threadiverse support) gives me the warm and fuzzies 🤣
julian
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Discourse's Trust Levels are an interesting idea, but not one that is novel. It was lifted almost entirely from Stack Overflow. At the time, Discourse and Stack Overflow had a common founder, Jeff Atwood.
There's a reason Stack Overflow is rapidly fading into obscurity... its moderation team (built off of trust levels) destroyed the very foundation of what made Stack Overflow good.
I am also not saying that what we have now (first-mover moderation or top-down moderation granting) is better... merely that should you look into this, tread lightly.