Aka ‘link embed’ or ‘link card’ or ‘onebox’ for use on a page like this: https://weird.one/muni.town/identity

(that is, if I had written those links on newlines instead of in a list, which I’ve only done because we don’t support embeds yet.)

The prior art I’m most familiar with is in Discourse:

• https://meta.discourse.org/t/configuring-and-troubleshooting-oneboxes/239715
• https://github.com/discourse/onebox/blob/main/README.md

The UX logic is that a link posted on its own line should be rendered as a full embed, like so:

I don’t know whether this is something that has to happen server-side (that’s how Discourse does it) or if this sort of thing can be done completely client-side nowadays (I doubt it).

There are also some security considerations when doing this type of meta-data fetching.

We could have used this if there was a JS/wasm client for it: https://github.com/EstebanBorai/link-preview

..but we just need whatever the JS/Svelte equivalent that, which I guess is metascraper.