Comment by 🎵 jmcs

@skyjake : I was considering asking for your "permission" to do these experiments beforehand, I hope this comment thread doesn't bring excessive load with it ;)

Then: yeah, it was a bit of manual work (mostly, due to how I write my gemlog, I had to create this thread, get the url, publish the gemlog with the link, get the post link and edit this), but nothing a person with an account here can't do easily.

"Thinking out loud": not sure if there would be a way to "create a thread on the fly if it doesn't exist", or have a link with defaults for "not listed in general view/feed" prepopulated. even without those, this seems easy enough.

Mar 11 · 9 months ago

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@6PakAL : glad you like the idea. After connecting the dots, it seemed easy enough to do. I'm almost surprised people are not doing it. Or maybe people are doing it, and I just don't know about it :D

I wasn't a big commenter back in the day, either, except for that lapse of time where all my friends had a blog, MSN space (did I hallucinate those?) or thing-of-the-day and we would spend the days making jokes in the comments...

Nice. I still prefer discussions to take place on fedi/Mastodon (so I am basically doing the same thing: adding a fedi thread to each of my blog posts) - but staying within Gemini has its appeal, too.

@jmcs: create a thread on the fly if it doesn't exist

That is a great idea actually. Certainly sounds convenient.

@skyjake ... it sounded like a good idea when I thought of it (wiki soft used to do this, just put a link on your text and done), but I don't know how well it could work in practice. What 'ID' should I use for the url? is it going to be 'slug' based? how do I make sure it doesn't exist already? how much complexity does it add? is it worth it?...

and so on. Honestly, I don't think it's worth it, it adds complexity for a use case that would be too niche and, honestly, takes like 10 seconds altogether anyway to do now by hand...

@jmcs Maybe it isn't that complex... The post URI that is being submitted would be the unique ID, so the system would just have to look for a post thread with that URI as a link inside the user's own /u/-subspace.

I mean: how would I, as a user, know which unique ID to use in my link, to create one? (it could be already in use, so I'd be linking to something, instead of creating one, I could create an integer overflow if I send something stupid, what do I know ...)That's why I think it's almost better to visit, create a link manually, and copy it ..

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