#linkpreviews — Public Fediverse posts

Google Messages bot arrives to preview links in your chat threads: Google today added Google Messages to its user-triggered fetchers list, enabling link previews for URLs shared in chat threads via newly documented crawler. https://ppc.land/google-messages-bot-arrives-to-preview-links-in-your-chat-threads/ #GoogleMessages #LinkPreviews #ChatThreads #MessagingApps #TechNews

Google Messages bot arrives to preview links in your chat threads: Google today added Google Messages to its user-triggered fetchers list, enabling link previews for URLs shared in chat threads via newly documented crawler. https://ppc.land/google-messages-bot-arrives-to-preview-links-in-your-chat-threads/ #GoogleMessages #LinkPreviews #ChatThreads #MessagingApps #TechNews

Google Messages bot arrives to preview links in your chat threads: Google today added Google Messages to its user-triggered fetchers list, enabling link previews for URLs shared in chat threads via newly documented crawler. https://ppc.land/google-messages-bot-arrives-to-preview-links-in-your-chat-threads/ #GoogleMessages #LinkPreviews #ChatThreads #MessagingApps #TechNews

Google Messages bot arrives to preview links in your chat threads: Google today added Google Messages to its user-triggered fetchers list, enabling link previews for URLs shared in chat threads via newly documented crawler. https://ppc.land/google-messages-bot-arrives-to-preview-links-in-your-chat-threads/ #GoogleMessages #LinkPreviews #ChatThreads #MessagingApps #TechNews

Google Messages bot arrives to preview links in your chat threads: Google today added Google Messages to its user-triggered fetchers list, enabling link previews for URLs shared in chat threads via newly documented crawler. https://ppc.land/google-messages-bot-arrives-to-preview-links-in-your-chat-threads/ #GoogleMessages #LinkPreviews #ChatThreads #MessagingApps #TechNews

Been digging through mastodon settings to find a way do disable link previews. It seems like there's no way to turn them off.

Here's a uBlock filter that will do the trick

`!yeet link previews
fosstodon.org##.expanded.status-card
fosstodon.org##.status-card`

#Mastodon #Meta #LinkPreviews #uBlockOrigin #Legibility #Bloat #Ui

Word up about sharing Pixelfed links into Bluesky. Please do it, it's a great way to publicise Pixelfed, as 90% of ordinary folks have no idea it exists. If you share, please click a space after the url, or into the embed link panel that shows up, and wait for the preview to populate, otherwise you just get the raw link and its not a pretty preview. If you wait a few moments, the image will show up (at least it works on pixelfed.de :)

#pixelfed #bluesky #linkpreviews #fediverse

#Mastodon delays firm fix for #linkpreviews that #DDoS sites
Many websites and apps offer previews of their online content that usually each contain a headline, a subheadline, a small excerpt, and an image. When someone on Mastodon posts a link to that content, their Mastodon instance fetches the preview from the content's host server to display in people's Mastodon feeds.
Decentralization is great until everyone wants to grab data from your #webserver
https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/06/mastodon_delays_fix_ddos/

So, is #Mastodon just not doing #linkpreviews anymore? You used to get a nice link preview when posting a link, but for the past week or so the previews are gone. Does anyone know anything about this?

Does anyone know why #linkPreviews aren't working anymore? They're been broken for the past 4-5 days and I have no idea if it system-wide, or a problem on my end.

Has anyone had issues with #twitter #x not fetching twitter:image meta tags for link/card #previews recently? They've stopped working on one of my sites but I haven't changed anything my end.

Last time we had this trouble it turned out to be some really weird low level networking setting!

#webDev #card #linkPreview #linkPreviews

"You might not be on Mastodon yet, but your blog could get a torrent of traffic from Mastodon, or other #Fediverse network if it’s shared there."

... because of fedi servers fetching data to create link preview cards.

"If your website is mentioned there, it might be the “victim” of an inadvertent denial of service attack, as hundreds or thousands of servers request the URL in the 60 seconds or so afterwards."

https://odd.blog/2023/01/02/the-mastodon-onslaught-on-your-blog/

#LinkPreviews

WTF. Now I’m not getting link previews from Medium at all? Grrr.

#LinkPreviews #Mastodon #Metatext

I miss the link previews - both text and pictures - even more than I miss #QTs on #Mastodon.

#QuoteTweet #LinkPreviews #MastodonFeatures #TwitterMigration #FeatureRequest

@mhoye I am sure there are features that will only work or scale on centralized systems, but I don't think #LinkPreviews are one of them. There are ways to do it that won't #DDoS; we just haven't (yet) put the effort into figuring it out because the #Fediverse hasn't been big enough for it to matter (much). It would be nice if we got ahead of the curve and fixed that problem before it got bad, but that probably won't happen. Nevertheless I'm sure we'll fix it eventually.