Posting 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?

  • Jeena@piefed.jeena.netEnglish
    4·
    19 days ago

    It’s to prevent AI bots from scraping. As far as I remember they practically ddosed PieFed.social by scraping all the content constantly.

      • cabbage@piefed.socialEnglish
        3·
        19 days ago

        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.

  • Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.socialEnglish
    4·
    19 days ago

    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