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.)

Being sherlocked has never felt so good. 🙌🏼

https://mastodon.social/@timroesner/109876084020612662

An update to the landing page. On to the next thing to tinker with. 😊

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. 🫡

mstdn.link - Share Mastodon posts better

And if you're interested in the trick of pretending to be a Twitter URL for this very, very specific purpose, here's the code that runs https://mstdn.link. Did I mention it's in PHP? https://gist.github.com/thillsman/e0d755f114aef178d38e3d656385323d
mstdn.link - Share Mastodon posts better