So far, I’m not liking how Threads posts render on my Akkoma server.
Too much of it is no text – just a big ginormous paperclip.
And what is that paperclip? Well, when I click on it, it opens up a new tab to reveal… a screenshot of a Tweet.
All of this could be bloody avoided if Threads people put the contents of the tweet in their posts. Or even better, if Threads actually rendered these pictures in the post and put in alt-text as well.
I’d tell these Threads people how bad these posts look on the Fediverse, but none of them can see my replies. Thanks, @zuck!
(Also, if the link to the post doesn’t show up, don’t blame me. Blame Threads. You don’t need to click it anyway since I’m providing a screenshot of what I’m seeing.)
This might be a problem with the local client? We're certainly sending down a valid CDN url as the attachment, and it renders just fine in other Mastodon clients (screenshot here is from my local server).
The CDN url is hosted on cdninstagram.com so I would check if you have any local blocklists in your browser that might affect that.
"Photo by Jo on April 05, 2024. May be a Twitter screenshot of 2 people and text that says 'Jo @JoJoFromJerz … Donald Trump was the president when the entire planet was hit with a once in a lifetime historic pandemic. But, ok. Marjorie Taylor Greene... @mtgreenee Follow God is sending America strong signs to tell us to repent. Earthquakes and eclipses and many more things to come. pray that our country listens.'."
That being said, ML-generated alt text should be available in the API now! Just verified on my end. Your feedback is heard :) We've always exposed user-provided alt text but that's not always provided.
Let me know if you have any theories on why this URL can't be rendered.
The image shows a rendering of a post from Christopher Su who is quote-posting a post from Jesse Chen. This is a quote post on Threads, and it is rendered as something similar in Misskey/Firefish.
There is a link preview of the post attached, and also a rendering of Jesse's post with some indentation and a separate border. Before these AP changes, only the link preview would have appeared.
