little #mastodon protip: due to how posts federate there's no guarantee someone will see a link/video preview when they see your post, especially on small servers. this means that you'll probably want to add some kind of relevant description in the post where you're posting the link, like repeating the headline or quoting a relevant excerpt
@eniko could you explain a bit more the "how posts federate" part? I'm on .social on the web app, but I haven't been able to work out the pattern of when it does and doesn't show previews!
@philbetts i'm not 100% sure of the details, but i believe if a post is freshly federated on a server and nobody has interacted with it yet it will not have a preview, and the preview will be fetched upon the first interaction from someone on that server
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