On the left, the 404 Media Ghost account (@feed @404media.co), as viewed from my GotoSocial account, via Phanpy. On the right, the same account, as viewed from a Mastodon account, also via Phanpy.

What’s interesting is that the GtS account displays the entire text of the article, while the Mastodon account only shows the preview and a link…

You can also follow the same account from PieFed, but currently there’s nothing that comes up.

  • Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com
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    12 hours ago

    Mastodon has the same issue with Lemmy posts, it’s an issue with different activity types. I think Mastodon posts are “notes” and Lemmy/Phanpy posts are “articles”, so Mastodon won’t fully render them because they don’t really focus on compatibility with other platforms.

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        9 hours ago

        yes, and Mastodon has the same issue for Lemmy posts, it’s just Mastodon being bad

        (yea “Phanpy posts” was incorrect by me, it’s just posts from certain platforms)

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          9 hours ago

          As much as I love Mastodon for what it has achieved, I have to also agree that it’s bad . For many reasons, several of which are fundamental in nature. But I digress.

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            9 hours ago

            I think in a vacuum Mastodon is very good, it works really well. But only with itself. They don’t seem very eager to work with other ActivityPub platforms.