"Should I rely entirely on the preview to describe my links?

You should ALSO describe your links in the body of your post, because some people may not see the preview.

Some apps or interfaces don’t show previews, and occasionally previews fail to render even on apps and interfaces that do show them."

https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-get-a-link-preview-to-appear-in-my-post-on-mastodon/

#feditips #linkpreviews

Been digging through mastodon settings to find a way do disable link previews. It seems like there's no way to turn them off.

Here's a uBlock filter that will do the trick

`!yeet link previews
fosstodon.org##.expanded.status-card
fosstodon.org##.status-card`

#Mastodon #Meta #LinkPreviews #uBlockOrigin #Legibility #Bloat #Ui

Word up about sharing Pixelfed links into Bluesky. Please do it, it's a great way to publicise Pixelfed, as 90% of ordinary folks have no idea it exists. If you share, please click a space after the url, or into the embed link panel that shows up, and wait for the preview to populate, otherwise you just get the raw link and its not a pretty preview. If you wait a few moments, the image will show up (at least it works on pixelfed.de :)

#pixelfed #bluesky #linkpreviews #fediverse

Minimal Social Markup · Jens Oliver Meiert
Smallest number of metatags that are consistently parsed for link previews.
twitter:card og:title (only needed by Twitter, otherwise fallback to title element) og:description (can be combined with the regular description tag) og:image

#html #metadata #publishing #LinkPreviews