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Haakon Meland Eriksen (Parlementum) via zotlabs.org | Hubzilla Development

Wed, 23 May 2018 21:29:10 +0200

@Hubzilla Development+ I have never tried Mastodon myself, but I have added two connections. However, I am not sure if they know - how can I tell on my end? What information is it possible to exhange today with a Mastodon connection, either one way or two ways?

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Stephan Maus

Wed, 23 May 2018 22:05:13 +0200

If you follow a Mastodon user and he/she follows you back, exchange in any direction should be possible - if I get it right.

Mike Macgirvin

Wed, 23 May 2018 22:38:59 +0200

You can see from the connection permission detail if you're fully connected or not. If not, "their permissions" will usually be empty.

You can share posts and public "assets". Private posts sort of work but you'll need recent dev code. They turn into DMs on Mastodon. Be careful about photos. If you upload a photo into a private post, it becomes a private "asset" and Mastodon folks won't be able to see it. This is true for any other network, not just for Mastodon. You may also encounter issues with events, maps, and E2EE posts, and if you have multiple photos in a post separated by text they will lose their place in the text and will all be displayed at the end on the Mastodon side.

Haakon Meland Eriksen (Parlementum)

Wed, 23 May 2018 22:40:52 +0200

Thanks, Mike!

Mario Vavti

Wed, 23 May 2018 22:50:40 +0200

@Haakon Meland Eriksen (Els Mussols) you should ask your host to enable the pubcrawl plugin first.

Haakon Meland Eriksen (Parlementum)

Wed, 23 May 2018 23:01:03 +0200

Thanks, Mario

Harald Eilertsen

Thu, 24 May 2018 07:42:27 +0200

I'm not on Mastodon, but GnuSocial/Quitter. Since both federate over ostatus I'd guess it's quite similar. If you federate with Mastodon over ActivityPub that may perhaps be different. Here's my observations as a Hubzilla newbie.

Posts flow just fine between Hubzilla and GnuSocial – both ways. If I add a title to the Hubzilla post, that part is not shown in GnuSocial. I can't reference GnuSocial groups from Hubzilla posts (not surprising, just had to try,) but tags are forwarded just fine. Haven't tried following a GnuSocial group in Hubzilla yet. Not sure how to do that.

Commenting on posts from GnuSocial seems to work fine. The one issue I have is that a comment on any public post (from any network) in Hubzilla is forwarded as a post to GnuSocial without any context. That makes for some confusing posts on that side. Not sure if the same is the case for Mastodon.

Not quite what you were asking for, but hopefully useful input anyways :)

Haakon Meland Eriksen (Parlementum)

Thu, 24 May 2018 07:52:57 +0200

Thanks, Harald!

While I have settled in the Zillaverse, it is good to know we have established contact with the other worlds out there.

elmussol

Mon, 28 May 2018 00:09:55 +0200

Mario wrote:

[...]you should ask your host to enable the pubcrawl plugin first.

Done thing.

Manuel

Mon, 28 May 2018 07:51:23 +0200

I don't see Mario's posts, why?