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2025-02-20 01:45:51

Adam

breakfastmtn@friendica.world

I was wondering how #mastodon would handle longer blog-style posts with images linked throughout made from #friendica. It seems like it just doesn't. I checked mastodon.social and mas.to and neither are aware of the post I made earlier even though notifier task has completed its notifying.

Kind of a bummer.

2025-02-20 10:24:23

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

In general, you've got two options.

If you don't add a title, Friendica sends the post as a Note-type object. Mastodon will show it with only basic text formatting, i.e. no tables, no horizontal lines, no custom typeface, no text size, no colour, numbered lists converted to bullet-point lists.

As for the images, Mastodon will not show any images within the post. It will show the first four as file attachments below the post, and it will completely ignore the rest because it can't handle more then four file attachments. Even this only works because Friendica, like its descendants, sends images both embedded in the the post and as file attachments. Still, Mastodon throws away all attached images except for four.

If you do add a title, Friendica sends the post as an Article-type object by default. (You can configure Friendica to send posts with titles as Note-type objects as well.) But Mastodon currently still refuses to render Article-type objects. Instead, it just shows the title and a link to the original. The reason for this is a somewhat longer story that involves Mastodon, Hubzilla and some headbutting between their creators and then-developers over full HTML rendering.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Mastodon #Friendica #Hubzilla #ActivityPub

2025-02-20 11:39:22

Adam

breakfastmtn@friendica.world

@Jupiter Rowland That's really helpful info. Wow, do I ever get back helpful and thorough replies about Friendica. Thank you, roaming avatar! :)