They look a lot like the images boxes that Reddit has, but Reddit often manages to scrap a picture from the linked website. I could understand why instances don't want to do a fetch request to all the content that is posted here, but maybe we could at least fill these with the logo of the source for the most linked websites? That would definitely require a change to the software, though.

I dunno I kinda like half baked home brew stuff lol. Fr it doesn't bother me too much. As long as I understand what is happening, all good. I'm sure it'll be taken care of eventually.

Also, clicking it should show the text the same as image posts.

Would be cool if it had a special instance logo, would give a good feel to it actually being federated

For sure it could be better, but I suspect the devs have higher priorities atm. Nothing much to to but wait, actually I suppose someone could open a feature request on their github and hopefully they'd take care of it eventually.