RSS contacts: Fediverse compatibility setting - mirror posts without title/headline

[forenta]

Description of the problem:

For various news sources, I have created accounts that mirror RSS feeds so that the information about the sources is available to everyone in Fediverse. Problem: Friendica also posts a title for each post by default. Most followers follow the accounts from the Mastodon software - however, this does not support titles and if a title exists for a post, it does not display the post, just the title and a link to the Friendica post. Example post here - how it is displayed on Friendica: On Mastodon:

Describe the feature you'd like

Add compatibility mode: Mirror the RSS feed-items, but ignore the title:

Premium solution: Optional move the items title to the content of the post: post = <title> + "\n" + <content>

Describe alternatives you've considered

If mirrored with the option Fetch information enabled, the post contains no title, but the content Friendica gets from the linked article. In some cases, this option solves the issue, but in most cases, there are no summaries available (e. g. typical WordPress-blogs). So instead of posting the summary within the RSS-feed, the post contains the first 250 letters of the article and cuts the rest in the middle of the sentence.

[kr428]

+1 from here. For integrating and re-sharing RSS posts, it would be nice to have at hand options like these (shamelessly screenshot from EchoFeed) where one essentially is capable of configurating how such a feed share should look like:

Really would be amazing to have this baked right into Friendica, though I'm unsure whether this is beyond the scope of the platform.

[forenta]

Bounty offered: I threw 30$ into the pot for this one. Deadline 01/20/25. https://gitpay.me/#/task/802

[forenta]

Solved by @annando, available in 2024.06-dev. https://github.com/friendica/friendica/pull/14195

[alexanmtz]

Hey @annando , you fixed this issue successfully 🚀

You can claim your bounty by visiting this issue on Gitpay: https://gitpay.me/#/profile/task/802/rss-contacts-fediverse-compatibility-setting-mirror-posts-without-title-headline

You can paste the merged PR on the "Solve Issue" and "Send Solution" tabs, and the Bounty process will be initiated.

But one of our requirements is having the issue mentioned on the PR, can you refer this one in your PR.

Let me know if you need any help.

[MrPetovan]

Thank you for the follow-up, I just edited the relevant PR to mention this issue.

[annando]

@alexanmtz there seem to be issues:

[forenta]

@annando You need to link the Pull Request https://github.com/friendica/friendica/pull/14195, not the issue.

[kr428]

Thanks very much. Really happy to see this feature added, but ... what do I need to make use of it...? 🙈

[forenta]

what do I need to make use of it...? 🙈

Settings > Social Networks > General Social Media Settings > Article Mode