Re:Promotion of alternative social platforms policy
by cldellow on Sunday December 18, 2022 @01:36PM
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That's my recollection, too.
I think Instagram wasn't annotating their pages with either OpenGraph metadata or Twitter card metadata, and so you got a bland link vs a rich preview.
It seems like Instagram _were_ publishing og:image tags at one point, but then removed it. See, for example, this 2019 reddit post [1].
Instagram then announced a change to this policy in December of 2021 [2] and now annotates with og:image again.
I think Instagram wasn't annotating their pages with either OpenGraph metadata or Twitter card metadata, and so you got a bland link vs a rich preview.
It seems like Instagram _were_ publishing og:image tags at one point, but then removed it. See, for example, this 2019 reddit post [1].
Instagram then announced a change to this policy in December of 2021 [2] and now annotates with og:image again.
[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Instagram/comments/dn2wsw/saving_an...
[2]: https://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/introducing-b...