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Proposed Plan to Integrate Mastodon Comments into HPR

Background

  • The HPR comment system is unique and may be unfamiliar to some who want to comment.
  • Mastodon's design makes it easy to leave comments on a Mastodon post.
  • The proposed goal is to augment the existing HPR comment system with the ability to comment on a HPR episode using Mastodon replies.

Process Overview

  • The HPR Mastodon bot makes a post announcing a new HPR episode is release
  • A HPR host replies to the Bot's mastodon post
  • Relies to the post are pulled via the mastodon API
  • If the reply belongs to a verified HPR host
    • Copy the reply into the comment database
    • Display the comment on the HPR website
    • Read the comment in the Community News

Changes to existing Database/Website

  • Add a new Mastodon Account field to the hosts table
  • Add a new field to the submission form.
  • Make it explicit that adding a mastodon account to the account field in the for:
    • is optional - not required to submit a show
    • Required for the hosts mastodon comments to be included in HPR
    • Grants permission for HPR to use the comment under a CC license

Pulling Mastodon Comments

  • Develope a script to
    • Parse the HPR bot posts
    • Extract replies to the Bot's post
    • Verify comment authors mastodon account is included in the hosts table.
    • Format the replies so they can be used by the existing comment moderation process.

Moderation

  • The script can written to output data in the same format as the existing comment system
  • Comments can be moderated using the existing process.

Variations

  • Another Method for the commenter to grant permission to HPR to reuse the content
    • CC declaration in comment or profile
    • ??
  • Use hash tags to identify a post as a HPR comment