Why did nobody think of the "boost comment" format where the post shows up in your followers' feeds, as usual, but with your comment attached right under it?

Why did nobody think of the "boost comment" format where the post shows up in your followers' feeds, as usual, but with your comment attached right under it?

Besides that it can continue to act as a normal comment, showing up in the replies and so on (unlike a "quote post" which is its own separate thing with its own separate set of replies) so we can use it without having to compartmentalise the conversation

#Fediverse #ActivityPub

@badrihippo Agree. Groups, or the lack there of, is another one that annoys me.

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Nice. As my boost comment, perhaps something to file a fediverse-idea for? .. https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediverse-ideas/issues

@badrihippo tumblr style posting is too cool for the fediverse.

would be amazing tho

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You may enjoy wafrn

@badrihippo@fosstodon.org yeah that's the old school forum way to do it, right?

A reply brings the topic back to the top (like a boost, in a way... back then we called it a bump!)

The cool thing is federated forums exist. I'm posting from one right now