- How can I push my posts to Mastodon and get preview text (up to “Read more”)?
- I’ve created two posts with photos, one appeared on Mastodon with the photo and one did not. The one without showed a link to the posts. What did I do differently?
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With federation, unfortunately we’re largely at the whims of platforms like Mastodon, as far as rendering articles. So in this case, Mastodon is only showing the title and URL. I’m working with them and others in the space on better support for Articles, so once it’s more widely supported, we’d love to do something like that!
As for the photos, can you please share links / screenshots of what you’re seeing, so we can fix that if possible? That sounds like there might be a bug somewhere.
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Thanks, Matt. So this is an issue with the app/platform rather than an individual instance?
As I’ve been investigating, I see someone using WordPress and achieving my goal but I have no idea how much unique coding was involved.
Attached are screenshots, one of my feed and then each of the threads. The one without the photo in the feed has a preview of the article while the other does not.
