Meaning that a link post automatically extracts some meta info - every time it’s clicked, not only when it’s created. Because it appears that Lemmy doesn’t automatically do it once at posting time.

Examples:

https://piefed.social/c/mediatheque@feddit.org/p/2446966/la-la-land
https://piefed.zip/c/netzkultur@feddit.org/p/1874208/we-noticed-that-you-are-blocking-our-ads

I only see a link. When I view the original post on a Lemmy-based instance, I see an automatically, real-time extracted blurb.

Is pyfedi’s stance something like “it should be enough to do that once when you create the post”? But apparently that’s not common practice?