Viewing boosted Mastodon threads

2024-10-20 14:11:57

adminsforum@hubzilla.org

dynamic_hubzilla wrote the following post Sun, 20 Oct 2024 14:12:03 +0200

Viewing boosted Mastodon threads

When Mastodon threads are boosted onto my feed, is there a way I can view them as conversations on Hubzilla without needing to click through to Mastodon to access the thread on the Mastodon side?

Here's an example:

Screenshot of boosted post by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io

2024-10-20 15:09:44

*_jayrope

jrp@hub.kliklak.net

@dynamic_hubzilla There's a hack at least, which often works. Copy the URL of the original Mastodon thread into "connections -> Add" and see for yourself. A connection will not be added, but often a Mastodon post be displayed within HZ. This should logically work with "Search" rather than add, and not on the connections page, but when i asked about this weirdness i got the feedback "it's intended behaviour". Well, so be it ;)

Oh, now i realize you're asking about the complete thread. I've no answer for that, sorry for the misread.

Sent to the #Fediverse from a #Hubzilla instance.

2024-10-20 21:11:14

Bill Statler

billstatler@forum.statler.ws

Paraphrasing Mike Macgirvin's explanations: The underlying problem is that Mastodon does not have conversations. A Mastodon reply can link to the original post, which makes it findable (usually), or it can link to another reply, which makes it very hard to find if you're starting from the original post. Even if you view a thread on Mastodon, you will frequently not see the entire tree of replies in one place -- you may need to open the URL of a reply in order to see the next level of replies.

Not sure how you guys do it in Hubzilla, but in Streams, I can put the URL of a post or reply into the Search box, and my instance will load whatever it can find, and assemble it into something that looks like a conversation. I may need to do this with several Mastodon replies in sequence, in order to get more of the pseudo-conversation assembled.