Mastodawn

Michael Porter Aug 9, 2024

(Since this is getting traction, a slight edit to add a reminder that we're using many different devices, platforms, and apps - This is my experience and YMMV, but you're a smart person, you can figure it out 👍🏻)

Hey Tooters - If you are linking to YouTube videos, don’t use the “Share” function in YouTube to generate the link. Copy and paste the URL from your address bar.

Using the “Share” function generates a generic preview in Mastodon, whereas cutting and pasting the actual URL gives a nice preview for the video, including the title.

The preview for my image below might be cropped in your browser, click to see the comparison.

#Communication #Mastodon #YouTube

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ErosBlog Bacchus has moved!Aug 11, 2024

@MichaelPorter Generalizing, unpredictable link preview behavior because of shenanigans at link source is frequent problem in my Mastodon experience. IMO it's always worth taking a few moments to make sure I'll get a nice preview.

I have even been known to test for a good preview by:

1) posting a test toot that's just the bare link;

2) rapidly mashing the star/unstar button until my server catches up and shows me the preview;

3) rapidly deleting the test toot, then taking my time composing.

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Michael Porter Aug 11, 2024

@ErosBlog Sounds familiar 😄
For these texts, I set the visibility to “Mentioned people only" so I wouldn't be disturbing anyone. Not sure how that affects propagation, though. Maybe it won't leave my instance if it's not cast wider.

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ErosBlog Bacchus has moved!

@MichaelPorter I never thought of that! Pretty sure it would work for my testing purposes. Thank you!