Share Threads posts better

How does this work?

It seems like Apple made a special case for displaying tweets in the Messages interface. In iOS 16.4, handling was improved for Mastodon. This tool takes your Threads post URL, pretends it's from a Twitter URL for the purposes of showing the special tweet UI, and then forwards all navigation to the original post. Your group chats will never be the same.

What if Apple makes Threads posts look better in the future?

Then I will be the happiest! Please Sherlock me, Tim. (And if I have anyone's ear: tailoring a page's link preview presentation by special meta tags would be chefskiss.gif.)

Can Threads add something to do this by default?

Good question. At the moment, it requires pretending to be a Twitter URL which may have other adverse effects and would be semantically inaccurate. So technically, yes, but I wouldn't expect them to.

My link doesn't work.

That's not a question, but sorry about that. Mastodon's strength is its federated nature that can live on many different instances. I tested on the most common ones, but certain flavors may not be compatible with this tool.

Are you just passing the full Threads URL to the `to` query param, like thrds.link?to={some url}?

Yep, you're on to me. You can manually build the URLs if you'd like, but the text input field above and the Shortcut linked above do it for you.

Can I ask you more questions?

Sure, feel free to reach me at @thillsman on Threads