Some mastodon accounts I follow show the pictures included in the post. Many don’t. What decides?
Related: Bluesky accounts I follow will say something like “this post includes quoted content” or something like that, at least letting me know that in some situations I should click through to see the real post as intended.
How can we consistently either show:
Do you have an example of a Mastodon post (link in Micro.blog ideally) that isn’t showing the photo? I expect it’s something with the truncation rules in Micro.blog for longer posts.
For Bluesky, that “this post includes quoted content” is actually set by Bluesky and is a limitation in their RSS feeds that we use to follow accounts. We don’t currently have control over that, but I hope Bluesky can improve this.
I’m actually saying Bluesky’s implementation is better than micro.blog current state, because it at least warns about (some of the) gaps. Micro.blog currently “fails quietly” on this, hence my ask for #2.
Let me post some Mastodon & Threads posts that are lacking the “attachments” as they come up.
The presence of the link is the explicit signal that you need to click to see it.
Well of course now that I’ve asked I haven’t seen one in the last couple days.
I have had the other “Fedisurprises”, though.
(The other versions of this are “there’s no indication that this is a poll” and “there’s no indication this is a reply”.)