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2025-12-04 07:09:40

tofeo :verified: via #hubzilla

tofeo@mstdn.social

@julian @rimu @nutomic @melroy @BentiGorlich

#hubzilla and #friendica had always have the discussion tree

2025-12-04 11:59:19

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@tofeo :verified: @julian ...where "always" means "since before there was even Mastodon".

A side-effect of their model, present at least on Hubzilla and Hubzilla's descendants, including still existing (streams) and Forte, is that comments/replies cannot exist in a stream without a) a parent and b) a start post. On all of them, including Friendica, it isn't a post if it replies to something, very much unlike Mastodon where a thread is a bunch of posts.

Depending on whom you ask, a conversation looks either like this:

Post
- Comment
  - Comment
    - Comment
- Comment
  - Comment
    - Comment

or like this:

Post
- Comment
  - Reply
    - Reply
- Comment
  - Reply
    - Reply

And by default, you always see it like this, very much unlike Mastodon where you only see single-message piecemeal in any timeline, and you have to dig deep to see a whole thread.

If you delete a comment or a reply, this won't just remove the comment from the conversation and rip a hole into the branch in the conversation where the comment used to be. Instead, it will delete the comment, all comments on it, all comments on these comments and so far from the conversation because all these comments on comments no longer have a parent, and therefore, they no longer have anywhere to attach in the conversation.

If you delete the post, you delete the whole conversation. The comments on the post will no longer have a parent, and nothing in the conversation will have a post to refer to anymore.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Mastodon #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Forte #Conversationa