I’m not sure whether this falls under Summit’s domain or Lemmy itself, but I wanted to raise a suggestion that could help to improve the user experience significantly.

When users submit posts or comments that consist solely of a link, the content often ends up looking very plain—just a bare URL without context or visual appeal.

Summit already does this for some posts, which is great—but it seems inconsistent, and doesn’t always trigger.

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Feature Suggestion: Please consider adding (or expanding) an automatic preview feature that detects when a post or comment contains only a link, and then automatically generates and displays a preview image or card above the link. Ideally, this would show a thumbnail, title, or meta snippet—something similar to Apple’s iMessage link previews, Discord’s embed cards, or what Reddit/Twitter does when embedding a link.

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This would:

Let users see what’s behind the link before clicking it.

Add visual interest to posts/comments that would otherwise look bland or spam-like.

Encourage more engagement and trust with linked content.

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Perhaps via Open Graph:

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-open-graph-and-how-can-i-use-it-for-my-website/

https://www.opengraphpreview.com/imessage

https://opengraph.dev/

https://blog.logrocket.com/open-graph-sharable-social-media-previews/

Unfortunately, The Open Graph protocol was originally created and is controlled by Facebook.

While it is licensed as an open standard (under the Open Web Foundation Agreement), Facebook remains the main authority behind its development and specification.

The protocol is widely used by other platforms, but its governance and updates are managed by Facebook.

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Alternatively, there’s Schema.Org:

https://schema.org/

https://schema.org/docs/gs.html

Schema.org is not owned by a single company or individual. It is a collaborative initiative launched in 2011 by major search engines—Google, Bing, Yahoo!, and later Yandex—to create and support a shared vocabulary for structured data markup on web pages.

The project is maintained and developed through ongoing collaboration among these organizations and the broader web community, rather than being controlled by any one entity.