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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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Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
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@Matthew Graybosch I hear you, but other platforms have support for the twitter: and og: meta namespaces, so it is worthwhile in my view to implement them.
Michael Vogel
Michael Vogel  
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Possibly it has something to do with the robots.txt?
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
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@Michael Vogel I saw the follow-up, and I believe it has to do with the bot blocking addon rather than the robots.txt file.
@Michael Vogel
Michael Vogel
Michael Vogel  
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Sounds very plausible.
Lorenzo
Lorenzo  
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@Michael Vogel @Hypolite Petovan No, definitely not! Here's a guy who says the reason is simple: Friendica doesn't handle Open Graph properly! 🤣🤣🤣

https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/display/735a2029-5763-e7cb-e09a-5b8132500548

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Hypolite Petovan

2023-02-11 17:09:52


@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.

@Hypolite Petovan @Michael Vogel
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