Comment on Did something change recently with how Mastodon displays content from Lemmy / the threadiverse?
julian@activitypub.space 1 day agoThanks. 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.
flamingos@feddit.uk 1 day ago
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 1 day ago
Not necessarily, no. Content warnings were implemented in Mastodon specifically as
summary
plussensitive
=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 havesensitive
, 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@feddit.uk 1 day ago
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 aNote
marked assensitive
with nosummary
to just mean to blur the images.julian@activitypub.space 1 day 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.