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@andresinmp@loadaverage.org I thought about this, but personally when I share content with some app and see "shared via someapp" appended, I usually delete that words.
Would _you_ delete "shared via AndStatus"?
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@andresinmp@loadaverage.org Yes, currently AndStatus puts an author's username and a link to a post as a signature of the shared message. Maybe we should have some alternative "Sharing template(s)"?
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@andresinmp@loadaverage.org I don't know...
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I think the metadata about from where the post has been sent should be handled less intrusively.
Compare it with "Sent from my iPhone" or "Sent from my Samsung Galaxy whatever" that are default - I _always_ reply to people mailing those things with "Stop sending me advertisement" or similar. :)
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@mk @lnxw48 @andresinmp In this case the question was specifically regarding _appending_ text like "shared via AndStatus". That _is_ advertisement. And it is just as annoying if a company does it as if a FLOSS developer does it.
If I use an adblocker to take care of similar text - it too would not see a difference.
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@lnxw48@fresh.federati.net Do you mean that information on a client application would be helpful in a Web interface of GNU Social, but it is far less appropriate when appended to a post, shared from the client application.
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@mmn@social.umeahackerspace.se @mk@oracle.skilledtests.com BTW, it's a pity that all dents from remote GNU Social users are shown in AndStatus as "from ostatus". Could API be changed to show a real client application?!
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@andstatus That data is discarded on the receiving end, so it would be a pretty simple fix in !gnusocial if you'd like to trust the remote end's client data :)
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@mk The instance of the dent is shown instead of "from ostatus" in some cases... Or vice versa, depending on which is considered the chicken and egg.
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@mmn @andstatus, I generally agree with that. When iPhones were still rare and one friend's messages had included that footer for 6 months, I started wondering how he could possibly _still_ think he needed to brag about to novelty of having an iPhone or being able to send mail from it. I think I sent him a reply at some point: "OK. Glad that makes you happy. Why do you keep telling me about it!?"
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@mmn @andstatus, especially since I didn't initially get that the reason the remark was there was Apple just adding it automatically....
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@mmn @andstatus, years later, K-9 Mail's mildly self-deprecating default .signature finally enlightened me: "Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity". It's basically saying "Sorry if this message sucks, I had to send it with sucky software"—I like that; I would have immediately understood if the iPhone added something like *that* to its users' messages.
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@mmn @andstatus, I almost junked a printed greeting-card from the same friend, too: thought it was a junk-mail Apple ad when I pulled it from the envelope and just saw a folded shiny piece of paper with "Made on a Mac" + an #Apple logo on it. I just had the wrong side facing up when I opened it.
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@mmn @andstatus, though... the next time I sent out greeting-cards myself, I did try following #Apple's example and putting a `Made with !Debian: #GNU + #Linux' advert on the back as an #experiment: http://status.hackerposse.com/conversation/434
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@mmn@social.umeahackerspace.se Of course I would prefer to trust remote instance, because I already trust all other information from a dent (an Author and text) :-)
and also because "ostatus" is only a noise/garbage in this context.
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@rozzin @andstatus Greeting cards tend to have all kinds of crap (even "made in ..."). But at least they don't embed that in the actual greeting. (as in "Happy birthday ________! This card was bought at Kwik-e-Mart!")
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@andresinmp@loadaverage.org Your explicit mentioning of #AndStatus worths much more than automatically added advertising :-). Really.
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