@darius Sounds useful yes! The only problem I see is that I'm not sure how you'd handle content warnings in a way that makes it look blog-like.

@darius the main critique I see is the theft of provenance, so I can't see why anyone would object. Otoh... 😬

(If you/someone made it work for AP, I'd use it! If only to clean up my own threads for posting as blog posts, because my brain can't blog, but threads are fine)

@darius I think it's a great idea. Might be less useful for instances where they have longer post limits, but for instances with the default 500, it can be quite useful indeed.

I really like the plain and simple design here.

@darius I don't see myself using it personally, but I also don't use this type of tool on twitter.

@darius very! I tend to use unroll apps when linking to threads to someone that I know doesn't do/understand social media platforms like Twitter. And I just want to give them a simple webpage to look at

@darius Anything that encourages and facilitates posting long threads is a bad idea from my perspective. Long threads are not just difficult and annoying to read -- they also clog timelines. I think it would be nicer to encourage and enable a culture around posting long form content on other sites specifically designed for that, and just posting a link to it with a summary on mastodon.

@darius You know what would actually be sort of useful to me personally is something that you point at a thread with many replies and it puts it into a tree structure. Mastodon dot web if you have a thread with replies and replies to replies everything's just in a jumbled mess at the end lol

@darius could something like this be useful for the visually impaired, to allow screen readers to follow the narrative/conversation in a less disjointed way? I don’t have vision impairments but I do have “following the thread” impairments”, so this might help me!

@darius by the way, if this is what you do, might it make sense to call it a thread viewer rather than a thread unroller because people are so used to unrollers rehosting content? (sincerely not sure about this one)

@darius sigh, of course CORS gets in the way https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/10400

of like, crawling posts which are publicly visible and so shouldn't need any authentication.

(i'm also bummed out to learn that mastodon doesn't allow api token access to the as resources, only to its proprietary api. as resources need digest signed requests, which of course you can't do unless you're the server which holds the signing key of a recipient.)

@darius I think this makes a lot of sense!

@darius

Sounds like a great idea. I am still trying to get my head around as to how will it look like #IRL
Where can we test it, Darius?

@darius seems useful to me! The main reason I used tools like this when I was on twitter, is because it was really really hard to read long threads on Twitter. the fediverse has a lot better threading UI

@darius I think it's more sensible than the other tools.
I like that it doesn't make a permanent / shareable copy of what I've written.

But... I write for the medium. My blog posts aren't made of 500 char paragraphs.

So I feel something gets lost in translation when micro-blogs are format shifted.