Imgur stands for image URL: they would let you upload images and provide you with a direct URL. The enshittification with all that JS and push for on-site social networking came after New Reddit and i.redd.it.

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I think New Reddit provides the Imgur URL and RES uses it to generate a preview in Old Reddit.

Anyway, should Fediverse platform/app devs spend time trying to accomodate specific shitty platforms?

StreetComplete quests be like:

• What kind of building is this?
• How does this path cross the barrier here?
• Is this path completed?
• Is it lit here?
• Do you need to pay to enter here?
• What’s being grown here?
• Are there showers here?
• What religion is practiced at this place?
• How many steps are here?
• Which direction leads upwards for these steps?
• Any vegetarian items on the menu here?
• What’s the name of this place?
• On which level number is this place located?
• Is this a one-way street?
• Does this road have a shoulder or breakdown lane?
  • I wish I had a shoulder to cry on during my breakdowns :(
• Do these traffic lights have a tactile indication for blind people for when it’s safe to cross?
• How bumpy is the road here?
• Which destination is signposted for this highway?

Thanks for a reasonable view. The only way I can see this settled is checking the source. The earliest and highest-quality posting of this image is this Facebook post by Neurodivergentgeekgirl. I don’t have a Facebook account so I can’t see all comments under that posts nor her posting history that could give hints.

I explained it in another comment. This was a simplification that’s true for i.redd.it and v.redd.it (which block embeds with CORS), the native web UI doesn’t do iframe embeds for privacy reasons.

Also, the default (and the most frequent) way people get an image URL out of Imgur is the album URL even for single images. You’d need to contact Imgur to query the number of images and their URLs to enable the kind of embeds you’re looking for. AFAIK, Reddit does that but it probably costs them money for an API key.

What frontend are you using? Surely not the default web interface or Voyager!

I simplified it a bit. Reddit blocks embeds with CORS or something (and I think Imgur at some point did too) so you do need a deal.

For YouTube, you need to get a special embed URL, like https://youtube.com/embed/videoIDhere (or with the domain youtube-nocookie.com if you’re cool). That’s easy to generate but if your site includes embedded YouTube videos it also means visitors agree to their ToS, and Lemmy devs don’t want that. Believing in net neutrality, they would need to enable ALL iframe embeds from ALL websites, which could easily get messy with tracking and whatnot. As for Imgur, the default (and the most frequent) way people get an image URL is the album URL even for single images. You’d need to contact Imgur to query the number of images and their URLs to enable the kind of embeds you’re looking for. AFAIK, Reddit does that but it probably costs them money for an API key.

Video posts totally work on Lemmy. However, the video must be on the “free and open internet”. Allow me to explain.

Lemmy, like Reddit, only allows for text posts and link posts. You can make “media posts” because most instances will allow media upload via a pict-rs server running on a subdomain, seamlessly creating a link post when you do.

However, this only applies to media you can obtain a direct link to. Other than instance-specific* pict-rs, the only major public sites that allow direct URL hosting are Catbox and GitHub. We don’t have deals with major video hosting sites like YouTube, TikTok, v.redd.it, imgur etc. to embed videos when someone posts a link to the website the video is hosted on. Therefore, any link posts will have to be opened as an external website, which is very annoying indeed, especially for the aforementioned JS-heavy sites (unless the other user has an alternative frontend app such as Piped or NewPipe set up).

* Instance shenanigans: Some instances impose a very small size limit to uploads or only allow them a certain time after account creation (both for lemm.ee for instance). You won’t usually see admins sharing what restrictions they put in place, but we can get a good guess from the defaults (error 502 currently, see archive). These defaults remain unchanged by many instance admins and the TL;DR is:

Applies to any media

• 10 MiB limit

Static pictures

• 10000x10000 or 40 MP
• all major formats (webp, jpg, png, jxl)

Animated pictures (colloquially known as gifs)

• 1920x1920 or 2.08 MP (basically 1920x1080 in either orientation)
• all major formats (webp (recommended), apng, gif, avif)

Videos

• 3840x3840 or 8.3 MP (basically 3840x2160 in either orientation)
• 900 frames (that’s like 30-40 seconds but you can get longer with something like a VFR slideshow)
• no sound, I think
• all major formats supported but unless it’s VP9 in a WebM container, it will be transcoded by the server and the timeout of the ffmpeg operation is like 15 seconds! This means that it’s practically impossible to upload any but the shortest videos unless they’re VP9 in WebM already!

You can see that video upload is very limiting! If you’re tech-savvy you can get a lot out of the 10 MiB and 900 frames but you need some ffmpeg skills. Therefore, your best bet is uploading to catbox.moe or GitHub (via a repo and using https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yourUsername/repoName/branchSuchAsMain/imagePath.png or the issue loophole (max 25 MiB)), obtaining a direct link to the file and pasting it as a link post URL. Or just paste the YouTube, TikTok, v.redd.it, imgur etc. URL and deal with the fact people will have to open the heavy website (or their alt-frontend app like NewPipe).

I’ve seen a lot of handwritten text and this is certainly within the range of handwriting styles, including the (in)consistencies.

I’m not willing to judge either way from the look alone but AFAIK this was drawn (or generated) by Neurodivergentgeekgirl on Facebook. I don’t have a Facebook account so I can’t check what her creation history or attitude to AI is, which could give it away.

I would too if it didn’t tax-exempt Elon.

Depressive realism sucks… and the shittiest people are immune to it.

They’re about to be cut out of the budget

Unless a cabal of billionaires secretly donates to keep it going.

Under this administration, they might do it openly too. Declare it cultural heritage and get government funding.

Original said “femming”. (Source via Nitter) Why change?

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they also have australitis

You’ve just proven @DmMacniel@feddit.org’s point

Although I and surely lots of others are happy for the heads-up ❤️

Thanks. The location of the charging port on my phone was not helping. /s

I guess it’s difficult to charge

Of course there is a town in each region. But Mullvad’s 68 Swedish servers only exist in 3 major cities so no amount of PornHub hentai traffic through them will recolor the whole map.