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:
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.
Being sherlocked has never felt so good. 🙌🏼
For those asking, I'm not planning on turning off https://mstdn.link in the foreseeable future.
If you missed it, iOS 16.4 was released yesterday with native support for Mastodon previews. Which is awesome and renders this little thing useless. But since I don't want to break a lot of links, it takes basically nothing to run, and some people like the blue background on the previews (😂), I'll leave it up. 🫡