Perhaps they are cursed, but I really like the embed widgets that come on forum and blog software.
I think mastodon also has link preview capabilities that are a little bit similar.
If you make a blog post, it should have a nice way of giving some indication of what to expect if you click on the link.
@dirtycommo like https://modernmotherfuckingwebsite.dreamstation.systems says, it's seven meta tags. making a scripty thing to scrape referenced pages for those seven tags and generate a "preview card" on my bespoke site generator doesn't seem like it should be too difficult
anti-ai defense mechanisms might complicate things, but those are necessary so, oh well
This is a modern motherfucking website.
This is a modern motherfucking website.