Comment on Did something change recently with how Mastodon displays content from Lemmy / the threadiverse?
julian@activitypub.space 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Not necessarily, no. Content warnings were implemented in Mastodon specifically as
summaryplussensitive=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 3 weeks ago
I know, I was just saying that it prevents a non-Note from being CW’d, as the
summeryis used as the post’s content. Masto treats aNotemarked assensitivewith nosummaryto just mean to blur the images.julian@activitypub.space 3 weeks ago
I suppose, although in that scenario theoretically one could add
as:sensitiveto 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.