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Comment on Did something change recently with how Mastodon displays content from Lemmy / the threadiverse?

How they see it: sfba.social/…/115267196743748430

Do note that Mastodon forces a redirect to the original instance for non-local posts, here’s a direct link to the comment: sfba.social/@karlauerbach/115267230182946226

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

There’s actually some related (yet-to-be-merged) changes to this on the Mastodon side, add support for links in Attachments (this is how Lemmy and the link federate links).

I don’t think anything’s changed, just two users finding a post in a hashtag (Lemmy adds the community name as a hastag for posts). I’ve seen some masto users complain about this in the past on the #lemmy tag.

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julian@activitypub.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

@nutomic@lemmy.ml and @rimu@piefed.social 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.

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- flamingos@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.
  
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  - julian@activitypub.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.
    
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    flamingos@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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. Masto treats a Note marked as sensitive with no summary to just mean to blur the images.
    
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