dynamic_hubzilla wrote the following post Thu, 19 Dec 2024 15:00:09 +0100Channel used as source for another channel and view from Mastodon
I recently made a post to my primary Hubzilla channel, (dynamic_hubzilla) here: #^https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/channel/dynamic?mid=fb041ab1-3463-4b6a-892f-c3b8689d0caaI wanted it to be accessible to folks on Mastodon, so I kept the character count below 500 characters and added additional content as replies to the conversation, in the style of Mastodon "thread" posts.
I also have a channel dynamic_backups that cross-posts content from my Hubzilla, Mastodon, and Friendica accounts. I guess this might have been a bad idea, but it made sense to me at the time to have a channel where I would have everything in one place.
After making my post this morning, I went over to Mastodon to find the post so that I could boost it, but didn't see it in the channels main feed, so I tried switching to Mastodon's "Posts and Replies tab", where I quickly found my most recent reply to the thread/conversation.
What was bizarre was that in the Mastodon view, the reply by dynamic_hubzilla shows up as replying to dynamic_backups, and I can't figure out how to access the original post from Mastodon at all.
This is definitely not the behavior I want, and I'm not sure how to make sense of it. Can someone help me understand what is going on here and whether there is any way I can prevent this kind of behavior in the future?
My only immediate thought is that it's a mistake to use a Hubzilla channel as a source for another Hubzilla channel.
Help?
@Jupiter Rowland, that doesn't really answer my question at all. My expectation is that a "dumb copy" would *not* show up as the parent for my Hubzilla replies, yet somehow (at least from Mastodon's perspective) that seems to have happened.
I did *not* use dynamic_hubzilla to reply to the dynamic_backups reshare, and yet Mastodon is behaving as if I did.
I did *not* use dynamic_hubzilla to reply to the dynamic_backups reshare, and yet Mastodon is behaving as if I did.
Two of my Mastodon followers have confirmed that they are seeing the correct (dynamic_hubzilla) account as the author of one of my recent posts:
#^https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/channel/dynamic?mid=9e2f1094-3219-43e3-9c3f-2fd0d4a59757
My working hypothesis at this point is that what I'm seeing from social.coop has something to do with the fact that that account is also set up as a "source" for dynamics_backups. I'm not sure that it's actually *functioning* in that capacity, but that is a separate question.
#^https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/channel/dynamic?mid=9e2f1094-3219-43e3-9c3f-2fd0d4a59757
My working hypothesis at this point is that what I'm seeing from social.coop has something to do with the fact that that account is also set up as a "source" for dynamics_backups. I'm not sure that it's actually *functioning* in that capacity, but that is a separate question.
Just double-checked what this looks like, and I guess the text of the link is actually "Show all _ comments", not "expand," but I still have the same question.
chris@im.allmendenetz.de, I might be missing something, but I don't think that blog style comments is what I want. I do want the comments to display together with the conversation.
I haven't yet tried adjusting the height, but I assume that that will just change how many comments are visible, not which ones are hidden by the link?
I haven't yet tried adjusting the height, but I assume that that will just change how many comments are visible, not which ones are hidden by the link?
Channel Sources doesn't repeat (boost) content, i.e. it doesn't forward the originals to contacts. Rather, it reposts/shares content. It puts a dumb copy of incoming content into new posts and sends these new posts.