@death.au I'll be most interested to hear how you go with this over time. You're right; it's a personal thing, not a strict methodology to follow. FYI in my Mastodon feed (Icecubes) it looks like this:
@ellane
Thanks for the screenshot. I didn't see a link preview on the default Mastodon web interface, and in Fedilab (which I use) it looks like a content warning with the whole article's text inside.
Btw, thank you for the inspiration. I really hope I can keep this up!