Hi !
I am writing a firefox addon to break the silos between the different fediverse softwares.
For example for ghost, this means that:
As a user I read an article hosted on a ghost platform from my firefox browser. I want to be able to boost on mastodon this article via a click in the firefox addon.
From my understanding it is currently impossible to do that if the blog is not already followed by the mastodon server, because mastodon is unable to fetch the article following the retrieving object section of the AP spec.
As a fallback, I can create a new mastodon status with the URL of the blog, but it wouldn’t make sense for my status to be boosted/fav’d instead of the original ghost article.
First alpha version of my firefox plugin is available here if you want to give it a try : Fed-Down – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)
Please let me know if i’m misunderstanding how it works but IMHO ghost misses the retrieving-object implementation. I’m opened to any suggestion to make my use-case work if you can think of any better option.
Thank you