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Lemmy v0.19.4 Release - Image Proxying and Federation improvements (join-lemmy.org)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (16 children)

In order to improve interoperability with Mastodon and other microblogging platforms, Lemmy now automatically includes a hashtag with new posts.

👎🏻 No way to disable this if I don't want hashtags cluttering up my posts. And worse, it's Lemmy putting words in my mouth / speaking for me.

[Re: Image Proxying] The setting works by rewriting links in new posts, comments and other places when they are inserted in the database. This means the setting has no effect on posts created before the setting was activated. And after disabling the setting, existing images will continue to be proxied. It should also be considered experimental.

What an absolutely stupid way to do image proxying. Why not just dynamically re-write image URLs to use the proxy path before serving it via the API?

That way:

It works with all content posted any time before/after the setting was activated
It lets users decide whether they want to proxy or not
Doesn't break images if the home instance pict-rs is broken (which I've been seeing a lot of lately)

If you think "that's not reliable" or "too hard", I've been doing it successfully exactly that way in Tesseract with it's image proxy/cache for over 8 months (on the front end...in a cave...with a box of scraps).

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The hash tag just adds the community name:

“The hashtag is based on the community name, so posts to /c/lemmy will automatically have the hashtag #lemmy. This makes Lemmy posts much easier to discover.”

Not really putting words in your mouth.

[–] Die4Ever 32 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

for reference, this is what it looks like on Mastodon, the post to [email protected] it gets the hashtag for announcements

https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]/112576601493225058

it's not really part of the message text, it's separate

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Thank you for this

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