Twice in the past fews days, I’ve gotten a reply from a Mastodon user complaining that I should have put the direct link to an article.

  • On Lemmy I posted the direct link to the article as usual
  • On their Mastodon feed, I appear as a Mastodon user that posted a link to a Lemmy thread

It seems that threadiverse posts are being seen by more mastodon users now, which is great, but maybe the formatting could use some improvements?

Example 1:

Example 2:

I know Mastodon got “quote posts” recently, is that related to this change?

Is Mastodon also getting a “group” view? That might be the best solution to the problem

  • julian@activitypub.space
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    7 days ago

    Thanks. Yes, this is just how Mastodon renders content from Lemmy and Piefed at the moment.

    Mastodon sees something that is not a Note, and says “I will treat it using a fallback mechanism. If it has a title, it is added to the top, I will add the URL back to the site at the bottom. If it has a summary, I will use that as the content”

    Note that it does not use content, that’s why there’s no actual content. This is why the link preview also links back to Lemmy, not to the article itself.

    [email protected] and [email protected] can add this to their software, respectively, by populating summary. It can just be a copy of content, or it can be a summarization… or it could be the link to the article… anything goes really.

    • flamingos-cant (hopepunk arc)@feddit.ukEnglish
      2·
      7 days ago

      If it has a summary, I will use that as the content

      But isn’t that how Mastodon handles content warnings? Baffling that they’d do it like that frankly given that it prevents long-form content (when masto actually starts supporting that) from being CW’d.

      • julian@activitypub.space
        2·
        7 days ago

        Not necessarily, no. Content warnings were implemented in Mastodon specifically as summary plus sensitive=true. Perhaps not originally, but that is enforced now (all CW’d posts from Mastodon are marked sensitive). Might be Mastodon will CW notes that don’t have sensitive, out of caution, but this doesn’t apply to non-Notes.

        So a summary included in a non-Note is not CW’d by Mastodon currently.

        • flamingos-cant (hopepunk arc)@feddit.ukEnglish
          2·
          7 days ago

          So a summary included in a non-Note is not CW’d by Mastodon currently.

          I know, I was just saying that it prevents a non-Note from being CW’d, as the summery is used as the post’s content.

          • julian@activitypub.space
            2·
            7 days ago

            I suppose, although in that scenario theoretically one could add as:sensitive to mark the status as CW’d? I don’t think CW logic is even run for non-Notes at the moment, though I could be mistaken.

            • flamingos-cant (hopepunk arc)@feddit.ukEnglish
              2·
              7 days ago

              Masto interprets a Note set as as:sensitive without a summary to mean ‘blur any media attached, but don’t collapse the text content’. I believe the same is true for non-Notes, but obviously without the summary = CW logic.