@[email protected] Nice!

@[email protected] Right. Like I said, best to follow up with any questions in the announcement thread. I’m not really involved with Mastodon or this project myself.

@[email protected] Yes, it’s in the post you responded to: https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/113125057908864709

@[email protected] Ah, I haven’t read the spec yet, I’d suggest to follow up in the official announcement thread. Sorry I can’t be of more help!

@[email protected] @[email protected] No problem!

@andypiper @cybeardjm Right, but this is an issue with the UI, the embed code is missing, see the screenshot I added to the GitHub issue.

@[email protected] Oh that’s interesting, I am able to replicate this as well.

I added a note to https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/31766#issuecomment-2351041692.

cc @[email protected]

@[email protected] Thank you! No rush. It should work and look exactly the same way as with iframes.

@[email protected] Great! Did you also try the new embed, something from mastodon.social?

@[email protected] Alright, I just went ahead and made the necessary update, it didn’t require too much effort.

Let me know once you update the plugin!

@[email protected] Yeah, I think I will withhold any criticism of that, for now.

The topic of quoting people’s public social media posts is pretty fascinating to me, and my thoughts might be better expressed in a blog post rather than a series of posts on here. (Especially knowing that some might feel pretty strongly about this topic.)

There is so much to consider, from people’s expectations, societal norms, and the technical aspects as well.

@[email protected] Yeah, you definitely won’t have to do that, the issue is more with wanting to embed posts from any servers running this version of Mastodon.

You will only get the blockquote HTML code, while the plugin looks for iframes, so it just won’t do anything.

@[email protected] Any existing embeds will continue to work, including from mastodon.social.

Basically, the plugin will check for the server and post ID from the iframe, and then fetches the status.

Updating the plugin to work with blockquotes should be fairly straightforward, I just need to find the time.

Will keep you posted!

For comparison, the previous (and on most Mastodon servers, the current) version looked like this.

Okay, looking at the new embed code more closely, this is…something else.

There are definitely benefits of moving away from iframes, as I’ve discussed on my blog.

https://stefanbohacek.com/project/wordpress-plugin-for-fediverse-embeds/

Also, an important side note, if you’re using my Fediverse Embeds WordPress plugin, it will not work with this latest format. I will work on an update…hopefully over this weekend.

@[email protected] Yeah, until I enabled ElasticSearch on my server recently, I had to rely on Google to find posts I’ve seen that I have not necessarily interacted with.

So having a reliable search is definitely very useful.

Yes, I should also say that I’d rather see the money for this go towards improving safety on Mastodon servers, but I don’t really have any insights into the team’s finances, so can’t criticize too much.

Also worth mentioning that quote boosts, which have also recently received funding, will include work on privacy and safety features around them, possibly extending to other areas of the online experience.

https://oisaur.com/@renchap/112299860209222424

Can’t wait for more updates around this!

#mastodon

@[email protected] I’d maybe suggest she signs up on the same server as you are, just to try things out a bit, without getting too attached to her posting history, and then see if she needs to find a server that suits her better after a few days.

@queenofnewyork Yes, between the lack of options for exporting posts, at least on Mastodon, and the occasional beef between server admins that results in defederation…it can be a bit tricky to figure out which server to pick.

My advice would be: it doesn’t matter *for your first server*.

https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/110372902943380172