@stefan@stefanbohacek.online does mastodon have endpoints you can hit that'll follow an account if you're signed in on the server already. For example, if they entered their server, could you have a follow button that links to: mastodon.social/@tom@tomkahe.com/follow
And when you click it, it opens and follows the user? I feel like that was a thing on Twitter, but I might be imagining things
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online @glitchdotcom@mastodon.social @eleventy@fosstodon.org it'd be cool if you could sign in w/ your mastodon account and click 'follow all' or something
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online make that 500,000. Twitter must have done something pretty unpopular
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online I think it's a little telling that the entire 'decentralized' network can go down but then I figure we might get similar headlines if mastodon.social went down
@BeAware@social.beaware.live @DrakkenZero@retro.pizza that's just a fediverse user, it's a WordPress Blog I think so it's probably using the AP plugin
that link https://socialwebfoundation.org/@swf is just @swf@socialwebfoundation.org
@BeAware@social.beaware.live I dunno, all I ever hear from AP devs is it's impossible to work with because there's no formal org for standardization so they're forced to just conform to how mastodon handles everything
This feels more like Evan taking a larger role in how AP is organized. I'm not even sure what it means to be an 'industry supporter' it sounds like that's just a list of orgs that said 'that's a good idea'
@BeAware@social.beaware.live yeah weird, it's gotta be a bug because I doubt acm.org is intentionally archiving posts lol
I would hope that mastodon notifies the server if they replied to a deleted post though, in case a delete message falls through
@BeAware@social.beaware.live which instance? That sounds more like a bug than anything, you'd have to go out of your way to reject deletes right or just never receive the DELETE message?
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online I was just thinking about how awful my network setup is because my basic router doesn't have loopback. So I access my mastodon server through a vpn, which means the only place in the world where that iframe doesn't work is if you're connected to my home wifi
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online Also I've mentioned it before. But assuming news orgs do end up creating their own instances, it'd be cool to get a 'boosted' notification when your post is quoted in an article
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online Oh cool! that's awesome
I haven't seen any impact whatsoever, but I imagine if it was a more high profile article it might generate more traffic if I understand how embeds work? My server already has to handle traffic to a number of servers anyway whenever a post is published in probably faster succession than people opening up that article.
Tangentially related, I think the verge has been planning to integrate more deeply with the fediverse based on posts I've seen from them- and I think long term it'd be better if they just had their own AP server that they grabbed embeds from rather than individual servers? For traffic reasons, and for the fact that I think I have a lot of control over what those embeds look like. Also, my server's probably a lot less reliable than any larger platform so theoretically that embed could just stop working
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online Does GoToSocial support mastodon's migration feature? Like is it migrating all the followers as well?