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I wonder if any other #fediverse project is interested in supporting ephemeral stories.

#pixeldev #activitypub @activitypub

21 Aug 2021 at 9:09 | Open on mastodon.social
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marius

@dansup @activitypub you can use Duration for passing around the amount of time that the AP object will be around. After that propagate a Delete for it maybe(?).

However you have to rely on services/apps honoring them, which might not be what users expect.

21 Aug 2021 at 9:23 | Open on metalhead.club
dansup

@mariusor @activitypub Well, for one we use a custom activity type, and duration is used to denote the length of each story. We will send Deletes and have an expires field too

21 Aug 2021 at 9:28 | Open on mastodon.social
GMate8

@dansup @activitypub Mastodon fleets?! 😳😳😳😳

21 Aug 2021 at 9:45 | Open on mastodon.online
Mario Vavti
@dansup Hubzilla has implemented ephemeral posts some years ago...
21 Aug 2021 at 12:16 | Open on hub.somaton.com
dansup

@mario Stories != Posts though, these are ephemeral stories, not posts.

Stories are not displayed in timelines as a regular post, they are a chronological collection of photos/video that can have different durations or attributes like disabled comments or actions ("swipe up" to be redirected to a custom url a user can set).

Ephemeral posts that get deleted are still pretty cool, but the UI/UX of :pixelfed: Stories are quite different than a simple expiry date.

21 Aug 2021 at 12:24 | Open on mastodon.social
Niko :verified:

@dansup @mario but, the question i wanted to do is: Are Stories going to be federated in other platforms? that would be interesting 🤔 For other platforms, Stories could be just another post that has an expiration date 🤔

21 Aug 2021 at 12:29 | Open on masto.nogafam.es
felix

@dansup i would really avoid any advanced options for a new feature (attributes or custom url). its just extra work which might not pay off, instead you can add those extra features in a later version (plus you have some user feedback then).

but thats just my opinion...

@mario

21 Aug 2021 at 23:08 | Open on mastodon.madrid
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