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Thanks to the amazingness of Frendica, I created a new profile that auto posts from Reddit, from the most awesome subreddits about nature. Basically I created an RSS feed via rss.trom.tf then a Friendica account that mirrors that RSS. There it is: social.trom.tf/profile/brp

Anyone on the Fediverse can now follow it! #tromlive

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Rokosun
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That's awesome, I just followed the account 😀

So you can use the RSS trick to create all sorts of cross posting from sites like reddit, right ?

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Tio
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Yah....so since Friendica is also an RSS Reader, then is so awesome you can follow any website basically. And since they allow to repost from any account, then I can setup a Friendica page that takes the RSS I just created, and shares its posts as its own. Super cool. Friendica is very underrated.

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Rokosun
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So now this account started federating with my instance and I can see its posts. But unfortunately, I can't see the images without going to a link which opens the same post inside a browser. IDK why friendica works this way, its very strange.
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Tio
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It's time for you to move to feature-full friendica! :) idk on Friendica it simply works...it is likely an issue with Mastodon. Can you ping your Mastodon admin about this?
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Rokosun
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I'm pinging @mike and @kev, can you take a look at this issue - fosstodon.org/@futureisfoss/10…

I don't know if its an instance specific issue, but if its the same for all mastodon servers then I don't know if they can do anything about it.


Future is FOSS (@futureisfoss@fosstodon.org)

Attached: 1 image @tio@social.trom.tf So now this account started federating with my instance and I can see its posts. But unfortunately, I can't see the images without going to a link which opens the same post inside a browser.
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@Mike Stone @Kev Quirk
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Mike Stone
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Not sure. There's nothing that we do specifically here on Fosstodon in federating with Friendica. When I look at the feed, I'm just seeing a list of links, not the content of the posts. I'd wager it's something to do with how Friendica is federating, but that would just be a guess. When I look at the account from a test account I have on another instance, it's telling me "old" posts aren't available. The @tio shows text in the posts, but links at the bottom of those as well

@kev

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Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan
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It isn’t specific to Fosstodon, this account will show the same way from all Mastodon instances. This display is the result of the way Mastodon chooses to display specific ActivityPub object types. Assuming its role as a microblogging platform, it probably chooses not to display the content of “Article” objects because it is expected to be longer than a “Note” for example.
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Rokosun
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Thanks for the info, it makes more sense now. Is there any way @tio could make it a normal post and not an article type one ? Its mostly just pictures with a small caption, so its better seen as a normal post on mastodon.

@heluecht @Gargron @kev @mike

@Michael Vogel @Tio @Eugen Rochko @Mike Stone @Kev Quirk
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Hypolite Petovan
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I believe the way we separate Articles from Notes is whether the original source has a title. And since RSS/Atom entries all set a title (possibly per protocol), these posts will always end up as Articles, no matter how short the body is. Nothing @Tio can do about that, unfortunately.
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