Samuel
just realised I can’t add a “posted by graysky” field to posts because then it would become embarrassingly obvious that I don’t use my own app
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Samuel
@samuel.fm
wait a minute could I abuse the self-labelling system for this
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Samuel
wait so what’s the conclusion of abusing labels for this case specifically. Should I do something more like unspeccedPostedBy: “Graysky” on the post itself (if that’s possible). Or abuse facets instead?
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Why
Paul and I actually disagree here, i think it’s totally fine to use labels in this way. Labels are statements made by some party about a post, and the self-labels are statements made by the author of the post. Plain and simple imo
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Samuel
Makes perfect sense to me but I don’t want to accidentally fuck up a potentially large % of posts. Especially since this would be all posts not just a weird special case like, say, custom poll posts
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P(aul) Frazee
no, they’re underdeveloped. we don’t fully understand their requirements yet and you’re asserting a view that introduces new requirements needlessly
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Natanael, Tech janitor
That's why you need stuff like reserved namespaces and defined syntax so you can enforce stricter / more precise logic later without breaking stuff. This reminds me a lot of softforking in new opcodes in cryptocurrency because you can only add rules, never remove any (without unanimous support)
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P(aul) Frazee
probably the best move would be to propose a lexicon change, second best would be an off spec field that’s maybe an object for that kind of metadata
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P(aul) Frazee
if the goal is for other clients to be able to render this info then you ideally want to think very generally, like a display name and a URL
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Samuel
Yeah true I’m probably not thinking big enough here. My primary motivation is so I can ask Jaz to see the stats on graysky posts lol
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Why
You should make a “post to community” feature that adds a “community:fishing” type label to posts, then we can make feeds key off of that instead of hashtags or emojis
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Then the feedgen could add some curation tools to allow people to moderate those feeds (using app passwords or something) and boom you get subreddits
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P(aul) Frazee
labels are designed to be used for content warnings (moderation). neutral or positive values *might* be possible in the future, but atm it would be a weird complication of the field that might make things much more difficult better options...
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P(aul) Frazee
...would be either hashtags, the forthcoming reply-gating feature (to spec a target audience), or adding a completely separate field
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shreyan (wise)
You could literally just hardcode a field in GraySky so all your posts show up as "Via GraySky" when somebody uses GraySky
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