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Did something change recently with how Mastodon displays content from Lemmy / the threadiverse? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by otter@lemmy.ca to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Twice in the past fews days, I've gotten a reply from a Mastodon user complaining that I should have put the direct link to an article.

On Lemmy I posted the direct link to the article as usual
On their Mastodon feed, I appear as a Mastodon user that posted a link to a Lemmy thread

It seems that threadiverse posts are being seen by more mastodon users now, which is great, but maybe the formatting could use some improvements?

Example 1:

My post: https://lemmy.ca/comment/19153240
How they see it: https://sfba.social/@otters_raft@lemmy.ca/115267196743748430

Example 2:

My post: https://lemmy.ca/comment/19202083
How they see it: https://mas.to/@otters_raft@lemmy.ca/115283224174559468

I know Mastodon got "quote posts" recently, is that related to this change?

Is Mastodon also getting a "group" view? That might be the best solution to the problem

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[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 6 points 1 week ago

Linked Mastodon posts redirect back to lemmy.ca so can't check, but going by the intro, it's something I've been noticing, when I boost a post on Mbin, Mastodon displays as you described, at most including the image as attachment, and that despite of the original post's instance (for the thread-based ones).

Now, maybe something like what Misskey instances do would be a good solution? For example:
https://nijimiss.moe/notes/01K5T7RE2G147ZRBSZ4GDHS3NR
(For https://thebrainbin.org/m/auster_info_dumps/t/1095421)
(Just don't like the links appearing again as attachments at the bottom)