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Experiment. What do you see if you’re reading this from Mastodon or one of its clones?
That was the title. This is the body text. Does this show too?
Chris Packham
Chris Packham  
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@goatsarah
@Sarah Brown
Chris Packham
Chris Packham  
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Wait, it just changed!
Sarah Brown
Sarah Brown  
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@Chris Packham I didn’t edit it. How peculiar.
@Chris Packham
Chris Packham
Chris Packham  
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I think it's a Masto thing
FeralRobots
FeralRobots  
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@chrispackham
Yup, this happens at some point after someone on your instance has favorited, bookmarked or shared the post. There is also a user-agent component to the equation - i.e., it doesn't just automagically happen as soon as someone other than you does it, your user agent has to refresh the post.
@goatsarah
@Sarah Brown @Chris Packham
Charles ☭ H
Charles ☭ H  
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A post and a link. Iirc, there's no work around for quote-tooting
Sarah Brown
Sarah Brown  
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@Charles ☭ H This is not a quote. It’s just an ordinary post but with the title field filled in (I usually leave it blank)
@Charles ☭ H
marlies :tblverified:
marlies :tblverified:  
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only seeing the title on ivory on mastodon
Petra
Petra  
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On Tusky it is very confusing but it does technically contain all the information
Denis Buckley
Denis Buckley  
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'That was the title.
This is the body text.
Does this show too...'
Odd colours...
Sarah Brown
Sarah Brown  
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@Denis Buckley Thanks. Didn’t include any colours so that’s happening somewhere else.

This is red, however.
And this is green.

@Denis Buckley
Ian Molton
Ian Molton  

View from friendica

Sarah Brown
Sarah Brown  
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@Ian Molton it was posted from friendica :-p
@Ian Molton
Ian Molton
Ian Molton  
So it was... Duh!
Alisdair Calder McGregor
Alisdair Calder McGregor  
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From Desktop
@Sarah Brown
This entry was edited (1 year ago)
Peter Nelson
Peter Nelson  
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Result from, not a Mastodon clone, but #Misskey. Not sure which side is producing the Amazon-listing style Unicode black lenticular brackets.
#misskey
Sarah Brown
Sarah Brown  
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@Peter Nelson Your end, I think. It’s just a post with a title here.
@Peter Nelson
Alexandra Lanes
Alexandra Lanes  
@Sarah Brown Mona via mastodon.online:
@Sarah Brown
Sarah Brown
Sarah Brown  
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@Mona app @Alexandra Lanes
Mona app
Mona app  
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I don’t see much difference from the Mastodon web. I guess the text format you used is not supported by Mastodon.
Richard Gadsden
Richard Gadsden  
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The title and a link to the post with the rest of the message.
Sarah Brown
Sarah Brown  
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Thanks for your help everyone. This confirms to me that I should keep leaving the title blank. It really doesn’t federate well.
Eve (?), she/her (?), secret spooky romulan (?)
Eve (?), she/her (?), secret spooky romulan (?)  
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Link, and a preview with title and body text.
DeterioratedStucco
DeterioratedStucco  
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Seems to work correctly. The link is visible and works.

Firefox on Ubuntu desktop.

Sarah Brown
Sarah Brown  
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@SftwareTheron Except the post doesn’t have a link!
@DeterioratedStucco
DeterioratedStucco
DeterioratedStucco  
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The title "What do you see if you’re reading this from Mastodon or one of its clones?" acts as a link, to the post it's in.

I suspect I'm not used to seeing posts with titles. Is that expected behaviour for them? If it is, I apologise for wasting your time.

Sarah Brown
Sarah Brown  
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@SftwareTheron I wouldn’t have asked what people saw if I thought them telling me would be wasting my time!

This does present a handy way for long form blog posts that preserve formatting though, essentially forcing a click through for software that doesn’t support rich content.

@DeterioratedStucco
Eddie Cochrane
Eddie Cochrane  
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with Megalodon on Android
DC
DC  
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The Mastodon Android app:
DC
DC  
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Megalodon:
WOMUMP
WOMUMP  
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Via mastodon.social and 'toot tui'.
(In general, Friendica posts often look like arse through this combination; I haven't tried to diagnose this.)
Sarah Brown
Sarah Brown  
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@WOMUMP That actually looks better than the web version!
@WOMUMP
Dan Shick
Dan Shick  
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the “Experiment…” text is a link. this is Akkoma.
This entry was edited (1 year ago)
Cheerios de Bergerac
Cheerios de Bergerac  
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Ozzy
Ozzy  
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What pretty much everybody else has posted.
When I click the link, I get "this site can't be reached".
Sarah Brown
Sarah Brown  
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@Ozzy I had a brief network outage. It's fixed now.
@Ozzy
Tedel
Tedel  
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Here is what I see using Tootle in Linux.
dr. prof. kip van den bos, PhD
dr. prof. kip van den bos, PhD  
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Content warning: re: Experiment. What do you see if you’re reading this from Mastodon or one of its clones?

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