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).
Yeah the image proxy will stay off for me. Mangling user’s posts permanently is unacceptable, it’s like the whole HTML escaping thing again. You always want to store the original data in its original form that way you have the freedom to tweak the processing at runtime, and if you fuck it up the data isn’t permanently fucked up (again, like the 0.18 HTML crap that should never have happened).
“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.”
👎🏻 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.
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:
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).
Yeah the image proxy will stay off for me. Mangling user’s posts permanently is unacceptable, it’s like the whole HTML escaping thing again. You always want to store the original data in its original form that way you have the freedom to tweak the processing at runtime, and if you fuck it up the data isn’t permanently fucked up (again, like the 0.18 HTML crap that should never have happened).
Damn, I had forgotten about that
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.
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
Thank you for this
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If I didn’t type it, it’s putting words in my mouth.
If I want a hashtag, I’ll type one. I don’t give a fuck about Mastodon, and I resent my experience being made worse to accommodate them.
I resent my experience being made worse by reading this
Not everything is about you.
How is your experience worse if you’ll never see the hashtag?
I agree. Lemmy is not Twitter like, it is Reddit like, it is a forum.