I highly recommend adding microblog embeds (mander.xyz)

submitted 6 days ago by Pro@mander.xyz to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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I suggest adding embedding Mastodon/ Akomma/ Misskey support as it will highly improve the experience of adding posts from there instead of taking screenshots of microblogs.

The way it would work is you add format to support including microblogs, so in clients there would be a button where you you paste the link and it would fetch the text and the details.

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[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 days ago

That would cause every client to automatically connect to those platforms to pull data which raises privacy concerns because it leaks your IP. Externally embedded images do this too, but most people upload them to their instance.

[-] Xylight@feddit.online 3 points 6 days ago

Do it server side, like they already do for articles and links.

[-] mark@programming.dev 1 points 6 days ago

Would surely overload servers too, as an infinite amount of instances make tons of requests all at once at random times. Oof.

[-] Tuuktuuk@piefed.ee 1 points 6 days ago

This needs to be fixed. For example by adding a random waiting time before making the request.

[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 days ago

Yeah. Its just not a good thing to add to the base UI. If someone wants to add this to any of the many lemmy clients they can do it easily, but its a very bloated thing to do. It would probably require loading lots of external javascript every time you open a post.

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