Comment on Link Preview Manifest: A Proposal for the Fediverse
yoasif@lemmy.world 1 month agoIt really feels like you didn’t read my post. I specifically called out caching as a concern, and even if we see more requests, they will be cheap to serve.
rimu@piefed.social 1 month ago
I definitely did read it.
This idea is so bad that I’m not even going to bother elaborating.
yoasif@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Okay - it would have been nice to learn where the proposal fails, but I understand that I can’t access your expertise for free. Take it easy!
rimu@piefed.social 1 month ago
Man, I am a cranky bastard sometimes. Shouldn’t post when I’m tired.
How about - the origin server, the place where the post was originally created, gets all the metadata (og:image, og:title, etc) and includes that in the Activity that tells other instances about the post? That way there is only one request made to the link and receiving instances can use that to make their preview?
It does mean that receiving instances will need to trust the sender so there’s potential for some misrepresentation but that seems acceptable to me.