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NicolasConstant / BirdsiteLive

An ethical bridge from Twitter

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Boosting post #35

Closed xsuchy closed 3 years ago

xsuchy commented 3 years ago

Currently, the posts cannot be boosted. It would be nice to be able to boost them.

NicolasConstant commented 3 years ago

Yes and unfortunately it's "by design": I have described the reason in my first announcement of the project here, but here is a quick summary:

people and admins tends to dislike twitter-bots because they fills public TL with people/data that aren't on the fediverse (I even seen admin blocking accounts/instances doing that for this very reason)
that's why I'm publishing all content in the follower-only mode
but follower-only content can't be boosted by design... 😕

xsuchy commented 3 years ago

ACK. Thank you for the explanation.

nytpu commented 3 years ago

Sorry to return to a closed issue, but couldn't you post to unlisted (i.e. allows boosting and showing up to followers but doesn't show up on public timelines by default)? It seems that you do it by setting the post object's to the followers collection and mentions like you would for followers-only, but you then set the cc field to the public collection (see here: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/visibility-to-cc-mapping/284/2).

This isn't formally supported in ActivityPub itself, but it seems to be a de-facto standard, and is implemented by Mastodon, Pleroma, PixelFed, and presumably more (I just didn't feel like going and looking).

NicolasConstant commented 3 years ago

It's already supported: set the twitter users you want to be posting in unlisted mode in the Instance:UnlistedTwitterAccounts parameter of the instance. See the doc for more info.

Please only do that for brands and public profiles. It's disabled by default for privacy and ethical reasons.