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martinhowitt

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Technology lead at The Data Place, a social enterprise that helps organisations and communities do better things with data. Product owner at Placecube.
UK Local Government survivor. Terrible bassist. Pseudo-grandparent. I love trees and hate rhododendrons.

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Wonder what @futurebird sees when i do this as it may be a feature of the instance they are on?
https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/112643192736748962

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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"

A screenshot of the previous post as it shows up in Mastodon on Firefox. The link to my post is blue and says "sauropods.win/@futurebird/1126... " no hint of what it might contain. Martin Howitt i @martinhowitt@urbanists.social Wonder what @futurebird sees when i do this as it may be a feature of the instance they are on? sauropods.win/@futurebird/1126... Jun 19, 2024, 09:15
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    @martinhowitt

    I had more than one friend, who I convinced to try mastodon. Trying to give them a good experience I'd check on them & respond to their posts.
    They'd say: "I never saw your replies"

    Turned out in each case they clicked a link & found they were "logged out" (on a different server) so sign up for that server, then another and another... on every server they had an empty account and felt alone.

    We need quote-boost to stop this. An in-fedi link should stay on your home server.

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