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!
Jay 🆘@dmoren Do you have an example of a post that doesn’t work?
@jsit in iMessage? Basically any of them.
@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.