Chatting about video games seems to be the best chance at having a fun convo that doesn’t turn into dehumanizing groups of people. If we can pull that off, given Luigi’s supposed internship at Firaxis, the rotation could scrape by a passable 7/10.
More realistically, a 2 or 3/10 if the weed is really good. Otherwise I don’t know if I would even bother.
From my own experience querying public mastodon timelines via API (edit: removed incorrect
/api/v1
s in the AP_IDs):https://<instance.domain.tld>/users/<username>
https://<instance.domain.tld>/users/<post_author_username>/statuses/<post_id>
(they also have aurl
property ofhttps://<instance.domain.tld>/@<post_author_username>/<post_id>
but that tends to serve the html view of the post)To see for yourself, pick an instance that allows viewing their public timeline without logging in (
mastodon.social
is perfect for this) and follow the “Playing with public data” section of the docs. That page ellides most of the info you’re looking for in the example payloads they give (as the JSON payloads themself are quite large and nested), but I can assure you that AP_IDs for user accounts and posts can be found pretty quickly from a single timeline query.I don’t think Mastodon has any notion of community, nor does it distinguish between posts and comments (when following a lemmy community, both posts and comments show up in my masto feed as “top-level” statuses (ie posts)).