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   Thomas Tanghus (tanghus@freeradical.zone)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 01:07:55 JST Thomas Tanghus

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   • Chee Aun 🤔

   @cheeaun @phanpy I see that on phanpy.social short links aren't resolved anymore as they still are in the stock web UI. Is that deliberately?
   https://masto.ai/@meduza_en/113509202709379978

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     Tek say resist (tek@freeradical.zone)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 01:07:50 JST Tek say resist

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     • Chee Aun 🤔
     • Benjamin Balder Bach

     @tanghus @cheeaun @benjaoming Nothing we’re intentionally or knowingly doing. Another option is that the site had changed by the time our instance made the preview card.

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     Chee Aun 🤔 (cheeaun@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 01:07:51 JST Chee Aun 🤔

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     • Benjamin Balder Bach

     @tanghus @benjaoming ah I see. Somehow it's unshortened in your instance, and even on masto.ai itself (it's not unshortened on the instance I'm on).

     I'm not really sure what happened then 😂 — perhaps different instance with different configs.

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     Thomas Tanghus (tanghus@freeradical.zone)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 01:07:51 JST Thomas Tanghus

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     • Chee Aun 🤔
     • Benjamin Balder Bach

     @cheeaun @benjaoming
     > perhaps different instance with different configs.

     I hadn't thought of that. Maybe @tek can tell if it's so?

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     Chee Aun 🤔 (cheeaun@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 01:07:52 JST Chee Aun 🤔

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     • Benjamin Balder Bach

     @tanghus @benjaoming by "unresolved", are you referring to the link card URL not showing the non-shortened, redirected URL?

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     Thomas Tanghus (tanghus@freeradical.zone)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 01:07:52 JST Thomas Tanghus

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     • Chee Aun 🤔
     • Benjamin Balder Bach

     @cheeaun @benjaoming exactly

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     Chee Aun 🤔 (cheeaun@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 01:07:52 JST Chee Aun 🤔

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     • Benjamin Balder Bach

     @tanghus @benjaoming if I'm not mistaken, Mastodon doesn't do that anymore — mainly due to some links redirect to completely different page e.g. YouTube links that redirects to consent pages.

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     Thomas Tanghus (tanghus@freeradical.zone)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 01:07:52 JST Thomas Tanghus

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     • Chee Aun 🤔
     • Benjamin Balder Bach

     @cheeaun @benjaoming In the post i quoted it is unshortened (Edit: when watched on the originating site). That's what's confusing me.
     https://masto.ai/@meduza_en/113509202709379978

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     Thomas Tanghus (tanghus@freeradical.zone)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 01:07:53 JST Thomas Tanghus

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     • Chee Aun 🤔
     • Benjamin Balder Bach

     I'm not sure I get what you mean @benjaoming
     The preview has been generated, but the link in it, when shown on phanpy.social, has the unresolved link. Are the links maybe resolved post preview generation? @cheeaun

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     Chee Aun 🤔 (cheeaun@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 01:07:55 JST Chee Aun 🤔

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     @tanghus links are resolved server-side on your instance, not from the client.

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     Benjamin Balder Bach (benjaoming@social.data.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 01:07:55 JST Benjamin Balder Bach

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     • Chee Aun 🤔

     @cheeaun @tanghus exactly -- when it's the first time that your instance sees the link, there's no preview. But the moment that you post the link, you'll see that the preview card shows up after a reload. I think most instances just need like a second to have generated it.

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     Thomas Tanghus (tanghus@freeradical.zone)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 01:14:34 JST Thomas Tanghus

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     • Tek say resist
     • Chee Aun 🤔
     • Benjamin Balder Bach

     @tek @cheeaun @benjaoming well it's only the link in the preview that's different. The post/toot is the same. Or have I misunderstood?

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     Tek say resist (tek@freeradical.zone)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 01:19:23 JST Tek say resist

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     • Chee Aun 🤔
     • Benjamin Balder Bach

     @tanghus @cheeaun @benjaoming Imagine I post a link to a site. The moment I do, this instance fetches that page to make a preview.

     Then the site’s author makes some changes to it.

     A few hours later, my toot makes its way to another site. When that site fetches the page to make the preview, it’s seeing the new, updated content and makes a different preview card for it.

     Instead of deliberate changes, it could be all sorts of automation on the website.

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     Thomas Tanghus (tanghus@freeradical.zone)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 06:06:35 JST Thomas Tanghus

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     • Tek say resist
     • Chee Aun 🤔
     • Benjamin Balder Bach

     @tek @cheeaun @benjaoming My coinhabitant often tells me I'm bad at explaining myself and I'm sure that's the case here :D
     Thanks for trying :)