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Can we embed Mastodon posts on Daily Kos? [1]

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Date: 2023-10-08  

Mastodon provides the option to embed posts on other websites, similar to the exTwitter posts that I frequently see embedded on Daily Kos. I tried to embed a post from Carl Bergstrom, but Daily Kos rejected it with the following message:

1 non-whitelisted iframe(s) have been removed from your story:

https://fediscience.org/@ct_bergstrom/111197903569589101/embed

I think it’s important that progressives support alternatives to exTwitter, which has increasingly become a fascist propaganda mill over the past year (I’ll elaborate in a future post).

If this is a technical problem on the Mastodon side, I’d be happy to report it to their issue tracker if anyone can tell me what the problem is.

If this is simply a matter of identifying ‘reliable’ Mastodon instances to whitelist, I’ll suggest the following science and medicine-themed instances that have a bunch of responsible, thoughtful people on them who are probably taking care to make sure their instance is not run by a jerk…

mastodon.social/...

fediscience.org/…

mathstodon.xyz/...

genomic.social/…

https://ecoevo.social/about

https://mstdn.science/about

med-mastodon.com/…

scicomm.xyz/…

critcare.social/…

sauropods.win/…

dair-community.social/…

fedisabled.social/… (don’t let the ‘0 active users’ stat fool you)

note: I confirmed that the embed restriction also applies to mastodon.social (the flagship instance) and mathstodon.xyx (a large math-focused instance)

p.s. I guess the alternative is to include a screenshot with a link… but in that case, we should disable Twitter embedding also, since the owner is an anti-democratic conspiracy theorist.

p.p.s: sending this to the Help Desk.

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