Feature Request: Mentions

[nickbohle]

What

The reply feature offers a direct response to a federated „item“. But I would like to not only reply but to mention „federated“ people in my WordPress posts. As I understand it right now, the handleATinstance.xyz might be triggered if the handle is mentioned early in the (stripped) federated text.

Status quo

I write a long text about topic A - as a reply to expert X. After an introduction to the topic and writing about the details I am quoting experts Y and Z with their opinions and mention their Fediverse handels, then I mix all of it in a conclusion.

Since the long text is not federated, only expert X knows about my reply, experts Y and Z do not know that they were mentioned. The discussion ends in a silo.

Idea

How great would it be, if I reply to topic A (written by expert X) with a long text, mention experts Y and Z and they will be notified.

Why

Why? Enable discussions! WordPress <> Fediverse

And I - as a human being - would also like to know where I am mentioned.

How

No clue.And spam protection must be inbuilt.

[pfefferle]

You can already place an @-reply everywhere in the post and the mentioned will be pinged then.

The syntax you have to use is the same as on Mastodon: @[email protected].

[pfefferle]

@nickbohle Is that what you requested or do I still miss something?