Twice in the past fews days, I’ve gotten a reply from a Mastodon user complaining that I should have put the direct link to an article.
- On Lemmy I posted the direct link to the article as usual
- On their Mastodon feed, I appear as a Mastodon user that posted a link to a Lemmy thread
It seems that threadiverse posts are being seen by more mastodon users now, which is great, but maybe the formatting could use some improvements?
Example 1:
- My post: https://lemmy.ca/comment/19153240
- How they see it: https://sfba.social/@otters_raft@lemmy.ca/115267196743748430
Example 2:
- My post: https://lemmy.ca/comment/19202083
- How they see it: https://mas.to/@otters_raft@lemmy.ca/115283224174559468
I know Mastodon got “quote posts” recently, is that related to this change?
Is Mastodon also getting a “group” view? That might be the best solution to the problem
on misskey it displays it properly.
But yeah, on mastodon, you only see the title and the link to the post, with an image attached if there are images…:BlobCat_Cry:
I looked at the two complaints you linked to and at how those threads seem to be displayed on these users’ instances:
- https://sfba.social/@otters_raft@lemmy.ca/115267196743748430
- https://mas.to/@otters_raft@lemmy.ca/115283224174559468
(edit: I don’t know why they aren’t displaying as links, but changing them to have a link text doesn’t help either, so I’m keeping them like this)
That looks the same as it has always looked, to the best of my knowledge. I’ve gotten at least one similar complaint before, from a Mastodon user who didn’t understand what they were looking at when they got a Lemmy post in their timeline. So I think the answer to your question is no, nothing changed, either it is a coincidence that you got two such complaints within a few days, or what actually changed is that your posts have (for whatever reason) become more visible on Mastodon.
Lemmy devs have been ass about which “link” they should link to.
Their rss even points to the thread link in both link and comment tags, afaik.
Linked Mastodon posts redirect back to lemmy.ca so can’t check, but going by the intro, it’s something I’ve been noticing, when I boost a post on Mbin, Mastodon displays as you described, at most including the image as attachment, and that despite of the original post’s instance (for the thread-based ones).
Now, maybe something like what Misskey instances do would be a good solution? For example:
https://nijimiss.moe/notes/01K5T7RE2G147ZRBSZ4GDHS3NR
(For https://thebrainbin.org/m/auster_info_dumps/t/1095421)
(Just don’t like the links appearing again as attachments at the bottom)otter@lemmy.ca perhaps the quote posts are not related but some other changes bundled in that version release are?
Can you share the instance that user was on? It’s worth checking out how their instance sees your post.
Mastodon did improve some non-Note handling characteristics, so it could be related!
For sure, I’ll also edit them into the post
Example 1:
- My post: https://lemmy.ca/comment/19153240
- How they see it: https://sfba.social/@otters_raft@lemmy.ca/115267196743748430
Example 2:
- My post: https://lemmy.ca/comment/19202083
- How they see it: https://mas.to/@otters_raft@lemmy.ca/115283224174559468
