JemmyPosting Piefed link on Mastodon now gives "login to Piefed" preview box
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klu9Posting a piefed link on Mastodon used to result in a "preview box" (not sure of the right term) with:
- a thumbnail of the first image in the post
- the post title
- the first line of the post
E.g. https://ohai.social/@klu9/114892796205984469
Now new posts I make on Mastodon with Piefed links give a preview box that only shows "log in to Piefed". (But the earlier posts on Mastodon still show the full preview box.)
I don't know if this is a result of a Piefed change or a Mastodon change. (Or if maybe it's a different PieFed post type? 'Discussion' vs 'Image' vs 'Link' etc)
Any way to make Mastodon+Piefed show the proper preview box?
Came here to say this, this drastically hampers people's ability to check out PieFed when considering to make an account.
I often point people to https://piefed.social to check it out, and recently they complain they're met with a login screen.
Also I can't share PieFed links for people to read without having them login & create an account.
This could have a big negative impact on user adoption
It's to prevent AI bots from scraping. As far as I remember they practically ddosed PieFed.social by scraping all the content constantly.
Is there anything AI can't ruin?
I hope there's another way around this, this would have a real negative impact on user adoption.
It basically makes piefed posts un-sharable, and people can't check out PieFed before creating an account
Edit: Perhaps this is a solution?
https://lwn.net/Articles/1028558/
Anibus is used by some instances, such as 50501.chat.
It can be a bit slow and frustrating, but better than closing down access completely I suppose.