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Great sculpture finds @ChrisAldrich and clever how he attempted to customise preview per site, but hasn’t og:image tags basically solved that particular ‘problem’? — #openweb #tech https://t.co/2NsNgJ8KrL
— Laurence Warner (@vv4rner) August 15, 2021

As Francis Urquhart might say, “You might very well think that…”

The whole point of that post is to show that og hasn’t solved it. There are too many flavors of metacrap and no standards. And worse og is not only not “open” it’s a DRY violation.

If you want to spelunk a bit, Cory Doctorow approached the idea back in 2001: Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia