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Posting Piefed link on Mastodon now gives "login to Piefed" preview box (piefed.social)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by klu9@piefed.social to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social

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Posting a piefed link on Mastodon used to result in a "preview box" (not sure of the right term) with:

a thumbnail of the first image in the post
the post title
the first line of the post

E.g. https://ohai.social/@klu9/114892796205984469

Now new posts I make on Mastodon with Piefed links give a preview box that only shows "log in to Piefed". (But the earlier posts on Mastodon still show the full preview box.)

I don't know if this is a result of a Piefed change or a Mastodon change. (Or if maybe it's a different PieFed post type? 'Discussion' vs 'Image' vs 'Link' etc)

Any way to make Mastodon+Piefed show the proper preview box?

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[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago

Came here to say this, this drastically hampers people's ability to check out PieFed when considering to make an account.

I often point people to https://piefed.social/ to check it out, and recently they complain they're met with a login screen.

Also I can't share PieFed links for people to read without having them login & create an account.

This could have a big negative impact on user adoption