What about using the blockquote format with > ?
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by: @eapl.me@eapl.me
Would it not also make sense to have the repost be a reply to the original post using the (#twthash), and maybe using a tag like #repost so it eaier to filter them out?
@eapl.me@eapl.me this is interesting. Is the square bracket something used in the wild for multilingual twts?
@prologic@twtxt.net what are your thoughts? Should we extend the parser to handle [lang=] and [boost] ? Or a generic attribute spec. Single word is a boolean attribute. And one with an = is a string key/value.
@eapl.me@eapl.me this is interesting. Is the square bracket something used in the wild for multilingual twts?
@prologic@twtxt.net what are your thoughts? Should we extend the parser to handle
@xuu Hmm I’m not sure to be honest, the problem I have with the idea being proposed is that clients would have to understand it. And now we’re mixing “content” with “actions”. As Twtxt is a pull-based model, I’m not even sure this fits all that well. Hmmm
I’m also more in favor of #reposts being human readable and writable. A client might implement a bottom that posts something simple like: #repost Look at this cool stuff, because bla bla [alt](url)
This will then make it possible to also “repost” stuff from other platforms/protocols.
The reader part of a client, can then render a preview of the link, which we talked about would be a nice (optional) feature to have in yarnd.
@sorenpeter@darch.dk this makes sense as a quote twt that references a direct URL. If we go back to how it developed on twitter originally it was RT @nick: original text because it contained the original text the twitter algorithm would boost that text into trending.
i like the format (#hash) @<nick url> > "Quoted text"\nThen a comment
as it preserves the human read able. and has the hash for linking to the yarn. The comment part could be optional for just boosting the twt.
The only issue i think i would have would be that that yarn could then become a mess of repeated quotes. Unless the client knows to interpret them as multiple users have reposted/boosted the thread.
The format is also how iphone does reactions to SMS messages with +number liked: original SMS
@sorenpeter@darch.dk this makes sense as a quote twt that references a direct URL. If we go back to how it developed on twitter originally it was RT @nick: original text because it contained the original text the twitter algorithm would boost that text into trending.
i like the format (#hash) @<nick url> > "Quoted text"\nThen a comment
as it preserves the human read able. and has the hash for linking to the yarn. The comment part could be optional for just boosting the twt.
The only issue i think i would have would be that that yarn could then become a mess of repeated quotes. Unless the client knows to interpret them as multiple users have reposted/boosted the thread.
The format is also how iphone does reactions to SMS messages with +number liked: original SMS