I've been pulling in some posts from my Mastodon instance to the blog, using iframes to directly show the embed view provided my Mastodon.
There's two problems with that:
One is, that someone who is using a content blocker like uBlock Origin or uMatrix likely won't see anything in these posts when they're blocking third party content by default. The other is - what happens when my Mastodon instance is down?
So I've now added direct links to each of the embedded posts, serving a dual purpose: There's first party content (the link), and also the Tiki engine creates a cache entry that can be accessed when the Mastodon server is unreachable.
I've also tagged all affected posts as mastodon embed, so I can easily find them and replace the content should I ever plan to shut down my Mastodon system.
There's two problems with that:
One is, that someone who is using a content blocker like uBlock Origin or uMatrix likely won't see anything in these posts when they're blocking third party content by default. The other is - what happens when my Mastodon instance is down?
So I've now added direct links to each of the embedded posts, serving a dual purpose: There's first party content (the link), and also the Tiki engine creates a cache entry that can be accessed when the Mastodon server is unreachable.
I've also tagged all affected posts as mastodon embed, so I can easily find them and replace the content should I ever plan to shut down my Mastodon system.
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