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!Friendica Support One of my currently biggest "issues" with Friendica is handling re-sharing posts right. Like: If I use just "native reshare" on the post, behaviour differs according to where a post comes from. Meaning: Resharing Pixelfed or Mastodon posts will only make them visible to the AP crowd. Resharing Diaspora* posts will only make them visible for Diaspora* folks. Same for Tumblr and *cough* Bluesky. So I usually do use quote-sharing for content that matters (to me), which however results in being unable to use random Mastodon API clients (like #phanpy , #rodent , #tusky) for that - as in there, I can only (by now) boost Mastodon posts as far as it seems and I am unable to at least easily do a quote-share of an existing boost. Unfortunately, even though I really _do_ force myself to use Friendica web / Frio all the time, it still leaves some things to be desired especially on mobile devices.
So, wondering: How do you folks handle this? Just use Friendica web and go with its "issues"? Just use whatever "reshare"/"boost" does without not bothering too much about who's able to see the posts? Or not interacting with any people outside the ActivityPub universe at all....?
#tusky #Rodent #phanpy
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@Kristian I use friendica in web browsers and if something is important I quote share it.
Kristian
Yeah, I mostly do that too, but I'm online on "mobile" much more for one, and the other side: I'd like very much to be able to share "non-AP" stuff with the ActivityPub crowd for obvious reasons, especially talking Diaspora*. 🙂
Andy H3
I love that reshare is network specific; likewise I love that quote share sends across all networks.

I only use the web UI though.

@Kristian
VegOS
@Kristian I try to send to all by quote-share or I just repost the source. I use the Friendica web site. Of course a common strictly implemented protocol would be better. Perhaps somebody should write a client with protocol translating capabilities. I'm quite annoyed by Diaspora. One of the devs claims, they have the best protocol.
:tongue:
Kristian
Yes, one common strictly implemented protocol would be way better (and in some ways I think Diaspora* actually *does* have quite that, unlike AP which seems to leave too many interesting aspects unaddressed...)
VegOS
@Kristian Mastodon bashing would fit here... Diaspora is an isolated island. Technically I cannot judge AP and Diaspora protocol but I prefer AP for the greater community and the greater access to news sources. I hope development of AP goes on and the bad influence Mastodon will be minimized. Usual disclaimer: I do not blame the folks in my timeline for their network.
Kristian
@VegOS Oh well, I don't really like Mastodon bashing all too much, but asides the greater reach, I feel the more disappointed with ActivityPub the deeper I look into the specs and the things left open or unaddressed for reasons beyond my understanding. User consistency is definitely one of them.
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