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So an interesting change is coming to Mastodon embeds. (fedia.io)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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So an interesting change is coming to Mastodon embeds.

Previously, the embed code consisted of an iframe, going forward, this is being switched to a blockquote.

In either case, the original text of the post is not included and is rather added after the main page the embed is on is loaded.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/31766

#mastodon #embeds #fediverse

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

@[email protected] Any existing embeds will continue to work, including from mastodon.social.

Basically, the plugin will check for the server and post ID from the iframe, and then fetches the status.

Updating the plugin to work with blockquotes should be fairly straightforward, I just need to find the time.

Will keep you posted!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@[email protected] It's for the next release I think, 4.3 or so...
Yeah, wouldn't like to redo all my embeds... Yes I have many ;-)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@[email protected] Yeah, you definitely won't have to do that, the issue is more with wanting to embed posts from any servers running this version of Mastodon.

You will only get the blockquote HTML code, while the plugin looks for iframes, so it just won't do anything.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@[email protected] Alright, I just went ahead and made the necessary update, it didn't require too much effort.

Let me know once you update the plugin!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@[email protected] Old embeds still work ;-)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@[email protected] Great! Did you also try the new embed, something from mastodon.social?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@[email protected] Nope. If I find a post, I'll test.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@[email protected] Thank you! No rush. It should work and look exactly the same way as with iframes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@[email protected] Anyway, will have to wait for it to work.
My instance is still 4.2.10, so it doesn't seem to work well...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@[email protected] Oh that's interesting, I am able to replicate this as well.

I added a note to https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/31766#issuecomment-2351041692.

cc @[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@[email protected] @[email protected] it should still work with the old-style iframe code but with the post URL substituted in (on the Wordpress side)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

@andypiper @cybeardjm Right, but this is an issue with the UI, the embed code is missing, see the screenshot I added to the GitHub issue.