After Elon Musk joined the board of directors of Twitter and the dismantling of the social network as we knew it, new social networks like Mastodon emerged. The skepticism around Twitter caused more than 2.5 million users to be active on the new social network at the beginning of December 2022. Due to this boom Apple wanted to give a little more importance to Mastodon by integrating the preview of its messages when links are added iMessage. All of this will be available at iOS 16.4.
Mastodon gets a foothold in iMessage thanks to iOS 16.4
The goal when we share links in the different messaging apps is that they display some of the content before accessing the link itself. This already happens with Twitter and other social networks in WhatsApp and iMessage, for example. However, the arrival of Mastodon as another option made Apple want to give it a little more importance it has had to date on iOS and iPadOS.
There new iOS 16.4 beta show a The Mastodon Content Preview System when we share links from that social network in iMessage, just like when we share links from Twitter, for example. The information displayed is part of the content, author, image (if any).
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This is nothing more than another approach from Apple to Mastodon before the arrival and rise of this app that makes up the fediverso, an open federation of servers whose objective is the publication of content on the Internet. . This iMessage and Mastodon integration is coming to iOS 16.4 and iPadOS 16.4 in the coming weeks, when Apple decides to release the version globally.
