One of the things we were going to build for Twitter for longer tweets was the ability to select any text in a tweet and be able to respond to that directly. A bit like a highlight or markup. Highlights would have themselves been retweetable and replyable. It was cool.
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makes sense
Interesting…
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This is really cool, especially as Nostr allows you to post longer notes.
That would have a great way to have pinpointed discussions!
長いツイートのためにTwitterで作ろうとしていたもののひとつに、ツイートの中の任意のテキストを選択して、それに直接反応できるようにする機能がありました。ハイライトやマークアップのようなものです。ハイライトは、それ自体がリツイートや返信が可能なものでした。クールでしたね。-jack-
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I think this. It reminds me of the feature in Medium.
We could put replyblock metadata in a reply. Clients could use this to show most replied-to sections of the post, etc.
For example, imagine clicking a highlight and then seeing a subthread with all the replies to that section.
You can kind of simulate this with threads but highlights would be more granular and would work really well in long posts.
It would be awesome if such a system was cryptographically sound. Eg quoting by referencing the note by hash, and then specifying the start and end bytes you are actually quoting. (Though Unicode will make for some odd edge cases there...)
It would just be tag metadata in a reply containing start and end bytes, which is already cryptographically sound because tags are covered by the id which is signed.
ok, this is very weird but I've been thinking in this for a while now.. because I don't want to use markdown I'm trying to come up with a system that would tell where to format but the content itself isn't "coded", and all of this I was thinking in using simple tags with ranges that tell what it should do to that piece of string, like italic, bold, list, etc.. but I haven't thought about the quoting other notes thing. I think this is worthy of exploring...
coooooool
It used to make me sad to think about what Twitter could have been, but now it’s just inspiring to imagine what Nostr can become.
Onward. 🚀✨
That would be cool. Just last week I vented about services not having this. Seems to be a basic need for communication on the web.
man this would have been sick!! twitter’s ability to allow annotation/discussion around any one sentence in a thread is so goated — really cool yall were thinking about that at the long form level too
Oh wow. I wonder what Twitter would come up with if they slept in today.
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this sounds like a great way to present retweets with even less context than already exists.
here I sign the note, probably shouldn’t present a portion of that as if it was signed by me when it wasn’t.
I really like this idea. Sometimes in longer tweets, you want to comment on one aspect but you can’t, so don’t bother as your response doesn’t fit with the whole tweet. Recent Twitter content and context has become remote and incomprehensible. I can’t connect so don’t tweet much about anything anymore.
Jack, was the highlighted text quote/response UI any different than a quote tweet?
Added Highlight & respond to specific text feature request to #damus board.