I’m in the middle of building something that is just silly enough to be interesting and just useful enough to be releasable.

Ok, so.

Tweets look really good when you send them in Messages on iOS/macOS. Mastodon posts… don’t. So I built a little tool that makes them much nicer to look at:

https://mstdn.link

Add ?to={any Mastodon post URL} to the end of that domain and when you send it to a friend, you get the nice looking preview. Of course the page makes it easy to paste a URL in. And there’s a Shortcut to make it even easier on iOS or macOS.

mstdn.link - Share Mastodon posts better

Anyway, this exists at the intersection of silly and useful. Enjoy!
I just added images to this thing. A thousand words better now. (It also may be a tad faster as well.)
@thillsman suggestion: instead of the logo of the instance, show the profilepicture of the user.
@gameshack_ I was looking into that yesterday. It may be doable.
@thillsman Started playing around with this based on your idea, so thanks for leading me down that rabbithole and giving me a fun afternoon activity today! :D
@thillsman Videoplayback similar to the youtube preview seems like an interesting one too.