 I feel like the distinction between ephemeral stories and posts is not as clear as I assumed. Ephemeral posts are exactly the same as regular posts, but they get deleted after a set time. Ephemeral stories are not like regular posts, they do not appear in timelines and have their own slideshow-esque user interface that shows unseen stories first and can have different durations, swipe up links, stickers, and more. #pixeldev #activitypub #stories 5 comments
 @dansup What ephemeral medium? The internet is not an ephemeral medium... you can't delete on the internet, especially on a federated network. Stories may give the illusion that posts may vanish magically and nobody will see "low quality" content later, but that can be dangerous. Personally, I don't like the viewer-side's user experience of stories either.  @dansup but those swipe up links and other fancy stuff is locked until you have a metric ton of followers and advertisement deals, right? Right? 😄 @technicallypossible Yeah, on IG anyways. They won't be locked on :pixelfed: unless an instance admin disables them entirely. |
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@dansup I think #stories are the commercial network's way of encouraging people to visit the site frequently and making #FOMA worse.
I don't think #activitypub applications should support stories.