osma,

A bit of weirdness I hadn't noticed before. While you can on free text now, it won't find links. Meanwhile, the Trending/Explore view has the "News" section which will only show links (along with metadata like "125 people shared", but not the toots themselves).

So Mastodon will recommend you links people talk about, but will obscure the talk itself. Do I have to explain the ways in which this can be actively harmful?

osma,

On , you still can not:

  1. See the toots which cause a link to be added to the "Trending News" list of the server. Ie, you can't tell why they're trending.
  2. Search for a URL, so you can't find who's talking about something, even if full text search is enabled.

It's been this way ever since full text was enabled last year.

delric,
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@osma hey I just want linked mastodon posts to preview and open in the mobile app I’m in, not a browser modal. is that so much

osma,

@delric
That's up to the.app you're using.

cheeaun,
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@osma 🤔 try search without "https://"

autiomaa,
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@osma Bot networks generate "conversation", links get pushed to the large audience. 😓

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