Self-posts on reddit also began with a similar trick. People would submit a link to what would be their post, thereby making the post a link to itself.
I don’t really see how this would cause any problems. I’m pretty sure twitter just follows the link once to generate a preview. It wouldn’t loop because it doesn’t follow any links on the previewed page.
That last line gave me a good chuckle.
It reminds me of the self referential tweet and how this was accomplished.
Just for context: This was created in 2009, but broke once Twitter handled links differently.
Thank you
Self-posts on reddit also began with a similar trick. People would submit a link to what would be their post, thereby making the post a link to itself.
I wonder if this has been done (or can be done) with mastodon.
I don’t really see how this would cause any problems. I’m pretty sure twitter just follows the link once to generate a preview. It wouldn’t loop because it doesn’t follow any links on the previewed page.
But to generate the preview, it must render itself which requires it to generate a preview.
The preview is generated asynchronously. It’s going to either get a 404, or the page without a preview.
I’ve always wanted to write two tweets quoting one another.