Feature Request: Mastodon's Author Bylines Feature

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Mastodon has introduced a non-standard OpenGraph tag which they use to show author bylines in post previews. Enabling is means adding a meta tag to a post:

<meta name="fediverse:creator" content="@accound@fediverse.example" />

This looks pretty straightforward, especially for single-author blogs. And it’s a lightway way to bridge Write.as’s limited fediverse features. With author byline indicators, people who respond to a blogpost on the fediverse can also reply to the author’s account on a service which has deeper support for that sort of thing.

Eugen has indicated that this feature no longer requires manual opt-in:

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Thanks for suggesting this! We can definitely add that in, especially since we already support fediverse account validation.

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Since this is now widely available with Mastodon 4.3, any chance we can get this added?

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Yep, this is being worked on, but there’s a little more needed to make it function with our current system: