Shouldn't Hubzilla have a means to send Article objects?
It strikes me as weird how Hubzilla currently can't send what ActivityPub defines as Article objects.
For example: As we've just happened to discover a couple of weeks ago, Friendica has a nifty trick. If you write a post without giving it a title, the post is sent as a Note object, i.e. a microblog post. But if you give the post a title, it's sent as an Article object, i.e. a long-form blog post. I think this isn't even documented.
At least on Mastodon, this makes a huge difference. Mastodon shows (or tries to show) Note objects like native Mastodon toots, namely the Note itself. But Article objects are rendered by showing their title and offering a link to the original below. Comments work nonetheless and go where they're supposed to go AFAIK.
Hubzilla doesn't do this. All posts, with or without title, go out as Note objects, no matter what difficulties Mastodon & Co. have with correctly displaying out-right long-form blog posts.
At the same time, articles written in the Articles app aren't transmitted at all. They have privacy settings, they support comments, but they stay fully local, they don't go out to your contacts through Zot or ActivityPub or anything else, and they have to be advertised manually in a post.
My suggestion: Either Hubzilla adopts Friendica's behaviour of declaring any post with a title as an Article object, or articles in the Articles app can be transmitted at least optionally, or both. Either of these would make Hubzilla a viable project for blogging.
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