mastodon

Hi ! So, when creating a post with tags on a Piefed instance (feddit.fr), I noticed that the results shown in Mastodon by searching the tags are not always the same: some posts are not shown with an excerpt in Mastodon, when some others do have an excerpt (along with a Read More link). I would like to know how can one ensure that the excerpt appears, because a blank message with only a link is not great to Mastodon viewers, especially when the posts are short fictions.

TL;DR I want Mastodon hashtags treated like communities.

Posting a piefed link on Mastodon used to result in a "preview box" (not sure of the right term) with:

Hello everyone! I'm new here... I had been testing Fediverse interoperability on Lemmy but I didn't like what I saw: there were several quirks and flaws that made no sense to me. Several people mentioned PieFed as an alternative and that's why I'm here - I'd like to compare/contrast features and see if PieFed does things differently.