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Support better interactions with events #20407
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As someone who develops an event hosting platform, I'd also like to see better support for Event objects in Mastodon, such that users can RSVP inline to event objects. I did some prototyping of what this UI could look like in the Mastodon web client: firefox_vW3nsKBU5u.mp4I believe this would mean that Mastodon would need to:
I would also prefer it if:
The benefit of Mastodon supporting accept/reject activities for events is that users don't need to go and create an account on a separate platform just to RSVP - they can RSVP directly with their Mastodon account on any Mastodon instance. I'm willing to put in time to implement this on the code side, but given that it's a user facing change that has design implications, I need to make sure this is a change that would be accepted by upstream before work begins on it (i.e. there's no point building this functionality if is not going to get merged since that will mean most Mastodon instances will never have it available). |
@hach-que You might want to be interested how Rebase, a fork of plemora has drafted this, because the general UI is quite similar to Mastodons. These are screenshots from a test account I use myself. |
And I would not say that sending a |
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Join
orLeave
activities for fetched event objectslike
activity for fetched event objectsMotivation
As made clear in #12166 Mastodon doesn't support
Join
orLeave
activities forevent
objects. Since #12637 it displays events as status. But it only allows the same interactions, than withnote
objects. This causes issues because Users on instances don't getlike
s and since mastodon users don't join or leave events, remote users also do not get an estimate of users interested in participating at those events. For better interoperability within the fediverse I suggest replacing the Like-Button with a Join-/Leave-ButtonThe text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: