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

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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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[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's to prevent AI bots from scraping. As far as I remember they practically ddosed PieFed.social by scraping all the content constantly.

[–] klu9@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago

Is there anything AI can't ruin?

[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I hope there's another way around this, this would have a real negative impact on user adoption.

It basically makes piefed posts un-sharable, and people can't check out PieFed before creating an account

Edit: Perhaps this is a solution?
https://lwn.net/Articles/1028558/

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

Anibus is used by some instances, such as 50501.chat.

It can be a bit slow and frustrating, but better than closing down access completely I suppose.

[–] 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