Wladimir Mufty on Nostr: Wouldn’t there be a better way to populate the "og:title" and other meta tags? When ...
Wouldn’t there be a better way to populate the "og:title" and other meta tags?
When embedding or linking to a #Mastodon post, almost all of the context gets lost. Couldn’t this be handled in a better way, for example, by using the first N-characters of the post itself as the title or description instead of the username/realm?
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2026-09-24 14:57:17 UTCEvent JSON
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