Here is a screenshot of what I see. And this is even more wild because links to YouTube, and to tumblr and many other sites will show an image if there is one and a short summary of the post being linked.
But if you link to the fedi it's kind of censored down to just a cryptic link (that will take you to a different server where you can't post or reply nearly always)
It's almost adversarial design to avoid anything "quote boost like"
futurebird