# Improve linking back to original post from Mastodon

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/improve-linking-back-to-original-post-from-mastodon/361921
**Category:** UX
**Tags:** activitypub
**Created:** [April 15, 2025, 3:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improve-linking-back-to-original-post-from-mastodon/361921 "2025-04-15T15:54:23Z")
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### Author: ![pmusaraj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pmusaraj/32/119489_2.png) [@pmusaraj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pmusaraj)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2025, 3:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improve-linking-back-to-original-post-from-mastodon/361921/1 "2025-04-15T15:54:23Z")

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One issue I see often with First Post / Note publications is that the OP is posted without a title and that its first external link will be populated as a onebox and end up getting more attention than the author intended.

Here is one example:

 ![CleanShot 2025-04-15 at 11.46.52@2x](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/5/3/d/53d53a737a116ecd9b8a64a3c8b7651fce517cc3.jpeg)

The original post is [Tell us how you manage subscriptions on Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tell-us-how-you-manage-subscriptions-on-discourse/361365)

Would it make sense to prepend the title for the first post only and link it to the source? Does that make sense @angus? If we do that, maybe we can then also drop the “Discuss on our forum” link appended at the bottom of each post. Not sure we need it for replies either, users on Mastodon could scroll up to the first post and use the link there.

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