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My apologies to the Slashdotted admin.

"Please don't share our content because of server load" sounds an awful lot like an admin/config problem.

Also sounds a lot like a plea for a centralized link preview farm.

Oh no the server is Melton, @lisamelton

Anyone venturing into this solution space?

news.itsfoss.com/mastodon-link

It's FOSS News · Please Don’t Share Our Links on Mastodon: Here’s Why!We need to talk about this problem. Should Mastodon step up?

@grb090423 You're more than welcome!

We have a bit of a challenge in that our post scheduling tool doesn't support Alt Text so a couple of times a day I have to visit all the posts with images and manually add Alt Text afterwards.

There's a problem in Mastodon with certain link preview images in WebP of AVIF (github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i) so for some sources we need to put images in manually.

GitHubWebP images don’t work in og:image (external link previews) · Issue #14983 · mastodon/mastodonBy da2x

A few things I’ve learnt since joining Mastodon World :mastodonworld:

✳️ Putting a link as the last item in a toot appears to enable a preview of it to appear

✳️ Always adding Alt Text to images is appreciated by those who use screen readers

✳️ Capitalising each word in a hashtag makes it easier to read for both people and screen readers

✳️ Listing hashtags after the toot rather than embedding them within makes it easier to read