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:

Example 2:

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

  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    9·
    6 months ago

    I looked at the two complaints you linked to and at how those threads seem to be displayed on these users’ instances:

    (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.

  • Auster@thebrainbin.org
    5·
    6 months ago

    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)

  • flamingos-cant (hopepunk arc)@feddit.ukEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    How they see it: https://sfba.social/@otters_raft@lemmy.ca/115267196743748430

    Do note that Mastodon forces a redirect to the original instance for non-local posts, here’s a direct link to the comment: https://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 like 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.

  • 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    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.