Gregory's ServerThis profile preview features the first two lines of the user's bio and the first two fields (commonly used for information like pronouns or verified links) which should hopefully make people more informed about who they talk to before they do so (similar idea as the reply prompts we launched a while back on Android).
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 @Gargron Iโm open to help with verification process for Turkish media organizations, journalists, and bloggers. (Also will email you for myself.)  @Gargron Ah, I missed that part. ๐ Oh, well... My blog theme will be ready when the times come! :D  @Gargron How come you didnโt leverage the rel-author system that eg. Google+ had in place? See https://mastodon.social/@voxpelli/112718603677990069 @Gargron I assume the plan is to just use the profile links for checking if a site can feature you in the preview? (like the opposite of link verification) If not, there is an idea on how to do it free of charge ;D  @the_moep It will be a specialized list of domains where you are allowed to be featured from. I think it's a bad idea to reuse profile links for this because the intent would be incidental and their number is limited.   @Gargron rather than an allowlist system, how about a blocklist system which individual people could self manage? I.e. individuals could enable citations & notifications, and then any time a link preview generates a cite back to them, they'd receive the notification and if it's not a legit article, just tap to add that domain to their own blocklist which would in turn stop those previews from including the cite. This would be more in keeping with the decentralisation goal, surely? @Gargron congrats on the launch today. As a newsroom web developer who would like to see journalism embrace the fediverse I was glad to see this feature roll out in July. I added the meta tags to our article templates and sent an email to get manually verified on July 23 but so far themarkup.org is not on the allow list (example post: https://mastodon.social/@jonkeegan/112813956168577610). I'll send follow-up email(s), but I am curious to know how many news sites are supported as of today?  @Gargron I love this so much. Providing easy access to context about how people present themselves feels extremely pro-social.  @Gargron Maybe also interesting for hashtag?! The bottom button would allow to follow the hashtag and above there would be room for stats how popular the hashtag is. |
As for fediverse accounts underneath link previews, for now this feature requires manual review from our side so that we can avoid the risk of malicious sites framing users as their authors, but we intend to build out a self-serve system to manage which sites you can be featured from very soon.