If you’ve been playing with PieFed’s new Follow functionality at all you’ll notice that it’s a bit limited. Yeah you can follow people but you were probably seeing all their posts already anyway - the threadiverse is really not very big.
And if you follow someone on Mastodon you’ll see some of their posts but much less activity than what you see in your Mastodon app. That’s because following someone is just the thing that connects you to someone - everything after that gets weird. Mastodon federates quite differently so PieFed needs a lot more work to play nicely with it.
PieFed needs to:
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Accept boosted toots. At the moment you’re only receiving the top-level posts that people make, not anything written by others which people you follow boost. Also when a reply to a top-level post is boosted it’s parents need to be retrieved too.
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When you view a post we need to get all it’s replies, even those that have not federated here naturally. Mastodon recently started doing this where a second after you view a post it kicks off a background process that gets replies and then pops up a ‘more replies available, click to see them’ message. We need that.
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Display posts with multiple images attached to them, not just one. Replies to posts can have images attached too!
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Search for and find any fediverse user, not just ones that makes themselves known by posting in a community.
And probably a lot more but those seem to be the showstoppers. What’s the big missing pieces, for you?
In Mastodon you can @ mention any community in the body of the post and that should do it.
e.g.
@piefed_meta@piefed.socialThanks, tho I shoulda been more specific: if someone else posted something on Mastodon that I liked, how do I “boost” it, i.e. cross-post it to Piefed/Lemmy?
Oh!
Maybe we can use the quote boost feature in Mastodon - you’d @ the community in your quote boost and the original post would go into the community (PieFed would need some more code written for this, it won’t work at present).
So theres a mastodon post by a cartoonist called grickle:
and I just used the piefed web client to make a post to [email protected]:
In my post, I just put the URL to the mastodon post, added the word “rule” to the title, and hit enter. the title and body were filled out, and the image and thumbnail were automatically added. I didn’t realize that’s how it worked. (it makes sense, but I guess I just hadn’t thought about it before…)
Or reply to any Mastodon post with
@piefed_meta@piefed.social ^^^and that puts the parent into the community.