Ok I finally managed to sit down and think about this after I got over the jet lag and getting sick. I translated all the suggestions into GitHub issues to make sure that they aren’t lost.
I think posting long tweets would make perfect sense and would let us remove the njump links completely which you mentioned as a problem in the second point. That being said I agree that right now I don’t think this is possible using the API? I feel like it should be so maybe there is a way but the docs for the new API aren’t great right now I feel.
https://github.com/planetary-social/nos-crossposting-service/issues/41
Regarding the njump links: I like them because it helps find the original content but at the same time I agree that they look awkward and out of place. I can think of multiple approaches:
- skip rendering njump links when notes aren’t cut off because they fit in one tweet
- remove njump links completely even if a note is cut off
- don’t post notes which are too long
- post long notes as threads with multiple tweets
- let people decide what to do on a per-feed basis which unfortunately complicates the website
All of those solutions have downsides and I don’t know what the best one is.
https://github.com/planetary-social/nos-crossposting-service/issues/44
Images can be posted directly to twitter but the problem is that that loses context around where that image was in the note. For example I often post links to content images and write in between them like I did in this note. This just doesn’t translate into the twitter format.
https://github.com/planetary-social/nos-crossposting-service/issues/42
Basically I feel we are dealing with all the typical problems of crossposting from one platform to another :(
If anyone has any suggestions regarding any of those problems please let me know.
boreq
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2023-11-13 17:58:07
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