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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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[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I looked at the two complaints you linked to and at how those threads seem to be displayed on these users' instances:

(edit: I don't know why they aren't displaying as links, but changing them to have a link text doesn't help either, so I'm keeping them like this)

That looks the same as it has always looked, to the best of my knowledge. I've gotten at least one similar complaint before, from a Mastodon user who didn't understand what they were looking at when they got a Lemmy post in their timeline. So I think the answer to your question is no, nothing changed, either it is a coincidence that you got two such complaints within a few days, or what actually changed is that your posts have (for whatever reason) become more visible on Mastodon.