Post #2315633

2026-04-20 04:13 UTC

@benpate@mastodon.social > "Likes", "Boosts", and "Replies" are all separate things that are hard (but perhaps not impossible) to combine into a single unit Wouldn't it just be a matter of having all 3 triggered by one button? What you'd name that button is an intriguing question though ... @deutrino@mstdn.io @bengo@mastodon.social @smallcircles@social.coop @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu @nlnet@social.nlnet.nl

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@benpate@mastodon.social 2026-04-20 06:55

Yeah, not impossible, just awkward and fragile. It complicates interop because other apps are expecting things to be separate. E.g., how to display something if a Mastodon user just clicks one, but not all three? I dunno, maybe we’re overthinking it. We could just shove them all together, display a “best guess” UI, and ignore the screams from the ActivityPub purists? @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz @deutrino@mstdn.io @bengo@mastodon.social @smallcircles@social.coop @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu @nlnet@social.nlnet.nl

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@benpate@mastodon.social 2026-04-20 06:59

In my quest to make the Fediverse better and get off of corporate social media, I am now… signing up for Tumblr? This is not going the direction I anticipated 😬 @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz @deutrino@mstdn.io @bengo@mastodon.social @smallcircles@social.coop @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu @nlnet@social.nlnet.nl

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