Dan MorenApple adding support for Mastodon previews in iMessage and Slack doing the same for workgroups would go a long way to making it easier to share posts.
(UPDATE: Whoops, looks like I got some details wrong—look downthread for a correction.)
Well this is one of those places where I wish I could quote tweet myself to issue a correction. 😅
Slack already does good Mastodon previews and it looks like improving it in iMessage may be up to Mastodon, not Apple. So I retract my previous statement!
Lex Friedman@dmoren 🤔
Why on Masto and not Apple?
Jay 🆘@dmoren Do you have an example of a post that doesn’t work?
@jsit in iMessage? Basically any of them.
@dmoren What do the links look like to you? I’m getting an image, a title, and a domain.
@dmoren So, these are still rich previews, just not as complete as the Twitter ones. iMessage treats tweets differently; I believe this is on Apple if they want to do anything with Mastodon links.
(Mastodon post pages already have <meta name=“og:description”> in them, which is how they work in Slack, for instance, but iMessage doesn’t do anything with that data.)
@jsit Yeah, that’s kind of what I’m saying. It sounds like the ball for this really is in Apple’s court.
Bobby Perrotti@dmoren you’re not wrong though, and I wonder how much dev relations may proactively talk with mastodon folks to help implement it. I for one have been screen-shotting. Most of my friends don’t have mastodon accounts yet anyway.
Scott@dmoren technology, amirite?
Eshu Marneedi@dmoren I’m sure there are many people who work at Apple and have moved to Mastodon who are probably working on this feature right now. Maybe. Possibly.
George Hammerton 
@EshuMarneedi @dmoren Hope so! 🤞😊
Jack Regan 
@dmoren Oh is this on Apple to fix? I assumed it was a Mastodon issue…
David Lynch@jack_regan @dmoren I think there's layers to it? The twitter preview cards are customized beyond what you can do open graph markup on your website, as I understand it. https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/technotes/tn2444/_index.html
Eugen Rochko@jack_regan @kemayo @dmoren We need to ask Apple for a fix. I don't think there's anything we can do with the current OpenGraph tags.
Anthony Allison@jack_regan @kemayo @dmoren @Gargron definitely a scenario for trying re: toot from @simonbs
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@anthonyallison @kemayo @dmoren @Gargron @simonbs I shouldn’t need to use a dedicated app to share a link
@jack_regan @kemayo @dmoren @Gargron @simonbs
I don't disagree with you. I also don't know of a better solution that exists today.
I don't disagree with you. I also don't know of a better solution that exists today.
@jack_regan @dmoren * “can do with open graph”, rather
jimray
@dmoren Right?! And it seems like it would be a server-side change. And pretty simple.