Ryan Barrett
Ryan Barrett
Closing, will track the local rewriting in #887.
I'm actually surprised that fediverse servers, or at least Mastodon, use anything in `attachments` for link previews at all, if it even does? Mastodon famously refetches links itself to generate...
> It breaks very badly in some third-party clients, though: Right, and it breaks in Mastodon itself too, eg the screenshot in the original description here. The AS2 attachment here...
Looking at this again, I'm inclined to just remove these attachments altogether and let fediverse servers generate their own link previews, since that's the happier and more common path in...
Reopening this, @bnewbold inspired me to try again to see if I can get fedi servers to render link previews that are separate from post text. I never actually tried...
Right! I get it. I generally try pretty hard to not modify users' original post text at all, so I first plan to try to get the AS2 equivalent of...
Tried again just now with `type: Link` and `icon`, but no dice, Mastodon still renders it as "Preview not available." It is at least clickable and linked to the `url`,...
I went the HTML-link-in-content route. Example: https://indieweb.social/@[email protected]/112645157258479340 . Should be deployed in ~10m.
Gory details on ActivityPub and Mastodon specific @-mention AS2 requirements in #493. We figured those out a while back, and we have bridged @-mentions working for web AP (both directions)...
Fixed! Example: https://indieweb.social/@snarfed/112474851557434046 => https://bsky.app/profile/snarfed.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3kswvsvselmu2