Link Preview Manifest: A Proposal for the Fediverse - Lemmy.World

Starting in Firefox version 142, Mozilla released a “Link Previews” feature whose main purpose is to push AI onto its users. While the feature is problematic, commenters post pointed out that some previews are helpful – e.g. on Wikipedia, where a preview will appear when people hover over a wiki-linked page. Other commenters pondered about some minimal way to replicate this elsewhere, and it seemed to be worth investigation. Read on as I propose an enhancement to the Fediverse (and maybe even web standards) to make Link Previews great: the Link Preview Manifest.