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@Friendica Support Hi everyone. I noticed that if I insert the ActivityPub link of any Friendica post, any WhatsApp, Telegram, Matrix, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn message, no preview is generated.

From what I understand It's a problem related to not handling #OpenGraph, but I'm not sure.

I would like to understand if it is a deliberate choice by the developers, and if so I would be interested in understanding the reason for this choice.

If, on the other hand, this is not the case, I would be curious to know if it is not possible to modify some parameters within the settings of the Friendica server. And, if so, what impact this change might have on how well the software runs.
#OpenGraph @Friendica Support
Hypolite Petovan
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@Signor Amministratore Can you please provide an example of a link that doesn't generate a preview when you paste it in a top-level post?
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VegOS
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@Hypolite Petovan @Signor Amministratore It's not friendica's fault, when some sites do not include meta tags with og: values.
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Hypolite Petovan
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@Signor Amministratore Aaaah, I understand now, there's no preview generated for Friendica posts in 3rd party platforms. You're right, we probably aren't handling OpenGraph at all for conversations.
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@Hypolite Petovan Okay. I understand.
Is there a way to independently handle the problem at the style sheet level? Or is it necessary to develop this feature on the two remaining themes in Friendica? Or worse, working on Friendica code?

Unfortunately this lack determines a disadvantage in "promotional" terms. Friendica posts have the graphic capacity of any blog, but by quoting them you only get a link (very long... 😅) without a preview...
@Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan
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@Signor Amministratore OpenGraph is handled at the HTML level, which means templates have to be changed, and the PHP code too, probably.
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Hypolite Petovan
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@Signor Amministratore A year later, I've looked into it because of another report of the the same behavior, and we have correctly implementing OpenGraph but the Blockbot addon is blocking third-party requests to create the link previews.

Hypolite Petovan

2024-03-03 17:38:01


Does anyone know what #Friendica is missing to correctly generate post link previews on remote systems? #OpenGraph #Interoperability


When a Friendica post is linked on any social network, it is never possible to preview it (unlike what happens with Mastodon or Pleroma: perhaps does it depend on the absence of open graph tags?) · Issue #13959 · friendica/friendica

Is the feature request related to a problem? Please describe. When a Friendica post is linked on any social network (Facebook, Twitter or Mastodon), on any messenger (Whatsapp, Telegram, Matrix, et...
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Signor Amministratore
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@Hypolite Petovan Thank you very much for letting me know. In reality, I am already aware of this great news, as... I am the user who produced the issue on github! 😅
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Hypolite Petovan
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@Signor Amministratore Thank you for clarifying, I try to never assume!
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@Signor Amministratore @Hypolite Petovan Good morning. Not sure if this is the same: Since some days, I am missing the preview photo when I share a website link and click on "preview". I just had it with this link, where I also did not see the photo in the preview tab: https://flavuur.de/photos/2276
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