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Matt Birchler
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Dave 🧱 :cursor_pointer:

@matt @robb this has big forum energy and I really like it

24 January at 17:29 | Open on mastodon.design
Davide Aversa π’† π’‚—π’„€

@matt Let's see if you can inspire another feature :D It looks a great idea.

24 January at 17:35 | Open on mastodon.social
Jenniferplusplus

@matt This is a good idea. I may do something like this.

24 January at 17:59 | Open on hachyderm.io
Jon

Yeah really, great idea @matt and @jenniferplusplus I hope you *do* do something like this!

24 January at 21:52 | Open on indieweb.social
Jenniferplusplus

@jdp23 @matt Letterbook's internal data model makes it fairly straightforward to support the central behavior where you hoist up a reply to be featured with the OP. I'm not entirely sure the best way to federate that, though. Probably as a Link with rel=selected, or similar. Either in the tag or attachment field.

The empty state is harder to federate. But maybe the empty state isn't as important to distinguish?

24 January at 22:13 | Open on hachyderm.io
Jari Pennanen

@matt That's quiet neat. One could even put a hidden hashtag like #question and some category hashtag to the item so they would be indexable. In #ActivityPub the hashtag does not have to be on the body and it still works. Mastodon doesn't render the hidden tags but it still indexes those.

24 January at 18:57 | Open on twit.social
Matt Birchler

@Ciantic This is where people like you come in! I know just enough to be dangerous when it comes to the ActivityPub tech πŸ˜›

24 January at 19:56 | Open on isfeeling.social
Ravi :prami:

@matt I have no doubt you’re being completely sincere but this is totally a humblebrag feature request!

24 January at 22:09 | Open on social.lol
et konsept fra BAR

@matt Yes! I've been wanting something like this for a very long time! In my head it's just been a way to "mark this question as answered", though.

25 January at 0:37 | Open on tutoteket.no
Dr. Quadragon ❌

@matt Sooo... It's federated StackOverflow, basically.

25 January at 15:26 | Open on mastodon.ml
Matt Birchler

@drq It's not unless literally anything that's Q&A is Stack Overflow.

25 January at 15:38 | Open on isfeeling.social
Clocks

@matt personally this is, while nice to think about, is a great showcase of feature creep and starts blurring the lines of what micro-blogging is.

Although it's still an excellent learning lesson and experiment utilizing your planning skills!

25 January at 15:57 | Open on cyberpunk.lol
Lutin Discret
Matt Birchler

@lutindiscret I guess I'm not looking for a whole new thing to ask questions on, but a way to ask my network I've built up on Mastodon to get an answer where we are all already talking, if that makes sense.

25 January at 16:51 | Open on isfeeling.social
Larry Garfield

@matt So, StackOverflow for Mastodon. πŸ™‚

Sounds great, but the searchability is the main concern. Masotodn search is still measly, which means such threads can never really become an effective knowledge base the way SO has. Not without some extra curation tools. (Which, you know, could also be built potentially...)

25 January at 16:32 | Open on phpc.social
Matt Birchler

@Crell I guess it depends how much you think Q&A in any platform is a StackOverflow clone. IMO there's a huge gap there (kinda like how we can have polls without this being a SurveyMonkey clone).

FWIW as I mentioned near the end of the post, I totally get that adding too much here would turn into a SO thing that's probably not somerhing Masto needs.

25 January at 16:49 | Open on isfeeling.social
Jupiter Rowland
@Matt Birchler Of course, this couldn't be done purely on the app side. This would require server-side changes on Mastodon.

And like all Mastodon-only, not-even-remotely-included-in-the-ActivityPub-standard features, it would either completely leave out the whole rest of the Fediverse. Or the rest of the Fediverse would have to adopt a non-standard Mastodon-only feature by first having to reverse-engineer it. Again.

#MastodonIsNotTheFediverse #NotOnlyMastodon #FediverseIsNotMastodon
@Matt Birchler Of course, this couldn't be done purely on the app side. This would require server-side changes on Mastodon.

And like all Mastodon-only, not-even-remotely-included-in-the-ActivityPub-standard features, it would either completely leave out the whole rest of the Fediverse. Or the rest of the Fediverse would have to adopt a non-standard Mastodon-only feature by first having to reverse-engineer it. Again.
25 January at 18:51 | Open on hub.netzgemeinde.eu
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