I do that all the time, personally. Like-- there is only so much dang-ol' info one can squeeze in to a media piece and a title. Hence the "content" / "more" tag. Want an example? I just posted this a few minutes ago:
I've seen this too, and I decided to experiment around with it just now. Most of the posts I've seen like this are from @[email protected], though I think I've seen it from other accounts too in the past. I thought that it was an issue with not putting a post title, but I found that the posts that show up as (content in post body) do actually have post titles.
From what I can tell, this is specific to piefed.social (it didn't show up when I tried it on piefed.zip). Also, I tried with different apps and even the mobile site, and they all have the same issue for a lot of her posts.
I'm not sure what the overall issue is, but maybe some of this will help.
Sometimes there are extra photos or text that the poster wants you to look at, the title and first image don't necessarily provide the context to know that.
I haven't seen that a lot but I'm mostly on .ca/.world
My instinct is to assume its the result of automation, not necessarily a bot, could be a "share/crosspost" function that's supposed to fill everything in for you.
Maybe it’s from one specific poster? Possible explanation it that they’re telling readers that the content of the article they posted is in the body, giving them a hint that they don’t need to click on the article to read it. That’s inviting for people who hate clicking external links.
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How come so many posts get titled "(content in post body)"? | Spyke
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Do you have any examples? It's not something I've come across
I do that all the time, personally. Like-- there is only so much dang-ol' info one can squeeze in to a media piece and a title. Hence the "content" / "more" tag. Want an example? I just posted this a few minutes ago:
https://piefed.social/c/[email protected]/p/2232108/jim-henson-between-shots-on-his-short-award-winning-film-time-piece-1965-more
Yours has a title though. A general 'MORE' after a title is usual, but it sounds like OP is saying the title itself is basically "See post".
TuxCat in this thread posted a screenshot of what it looks like
I add "See Post" or similar all the time to my posts, for the exact same reasons as above.
Probably like ~400 posts at this point on the FV, so far.
Ultimately though, I agree, casual scrollers won't really care, and... whadyagonado?
Some PieFed instances haven't upgraded to the latest version yet. Lady Butterfly is the most prolific poster on one such instance.
I've seen this too, and I decided to experiment around with it just now. Most of the posts I've seen like this are from @[email protected], though I think I've seen it from other accounts too in the past. I thought that it was an issue with not putting a post title, but I found that the posts that show up as (content in post body) do actually have post titles.
From what I can tell, this is specific to piefed.social (it didn't show up when I tried it on piefed.zip). Also, I tried with different apps and even the mobile site, and they all have the same issue for a lot of her posts.
I'm not sure what the overall issue is, but maybe some of this will help.
Sometimes there are extra photos or text that the poster wants you to look at, the title and first image don't necessarily provide the context to know that.
I haven't seen that a lot but I'm mostly on .ca/.world
My instinct is to assume its the result of automation, not necessarily a bot, could be a "share/crosspost" function that's supposed to fill everything in for you.
not sure. kinda annoying when I don't see anything in the body.
I've seen them. I had assumed it was a weird interaction with either a mastadon post to the com or maybe some other API nonsense.
But I don't really know. It seemed non malicious
Do you have any examples?
Maybe it’s from one specific poster? Possible explanation it that they’re telling readers that the content of the article they posted is in the body, giving them a hint that they don’t need to click on the article to read it. That’s inviting for people who hate clicking external links.