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In reply to the discussion: Elad has programmed a holiday gift for DU -- (limited) Mastodon embedding is now available [View all]EarlG
(23,059 posts)Like I said, its an experiment.
What I wasnt anticipating was that there might be issues with the appearance of me endorsing specific servers. If people view DU embedding certain servers as an endorsement of those servers and their policies, Im not sure theres a way around that other than keeping an up to date list of approved servers which seems like a ton of work for somebody (and then inevitable conflicts when that list doesnt include a server somebody likes, or includes a server that somebody doesnt like).
Once again, just so nobody misunderstands me, Im not talking about blocking linking to Mastodon servers. Linking to any server will always be permitted. This is about embedding.
I mean it makes sense to me why this is an issue. DU allows links to Free Republic and I dont endorse their moderating policies. But obviously if we came up with a special tool so that people could embed Free Republic posts on DU, that might raise some eyebrows. I had just not considered this angle with Mastodon embedding, thinking it to be just a useful way of getting journalists posts embedded in order to help provide a Twitter alternative, if thats what people want. Turns out I may have been a bit naive in that assumption
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