• unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
    5·
    3 days ago

    Can we not use reddit embeds please? Ive seen it happening multiple times this week. I know there are no rules about it, but reddit is so ass you cant even open these images properly without being redirected to reddits age gate / login wall. Just copy the original and re-upload it somewhere.

    • Bender_Higgins@fedinsfw.appOPEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      After reading the comment by @zedgeist@lemmy.zip below, I think I understand where you are coming from. In the web version of this post, it is

      <a href="https://i.redd.it/%E2%80%A6" ><img src="https://media.fedinsfw.app/file/%E2%80%A6"></a>

      so you see an image even though it is a link post, and the server cached a version of the image. Whatever client you are using doesn’t understand that the link is to an image, and doesn’t serve you the cached version either.

      As uploader, I have no option to tell the server that the link is to an image, but it figures that out itself. I’d like to tell the server to drop the reddit link entirely, but ATM, that is not possible either. One day this will be ironed out, but right now, I’d suggest that you skip reddit links, or use a better client. I think piefed has a PWA option, and there was some Voyager mentioned below.

      • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
        1·
        2 days ago

        A. Im on desktop using the standard lemmy web interface

        B. When i right clicking the image and open it in a new tab it doesnt open the image, it opens the entire reddit post which is account walled.

        Sure i could just look at the scaled down version of the image on the lemmy UI and be happy, but sometimes you wanna see the original file, which you cant.

    • Bender_Higgins@fedinsfw.appOPEnglish
      4·
      3 days ago

      It’s possible to upload images (or videos) to fedinsfw itself before posting, and I have a working implementation for that locked and loaded, but it comes with limitations (quota and/or limit on the number of uploads, I don’t recall right now) and cumbersome tools for management. So to lighten my load, I decided not to use it, and I don’t care for searching and creating tooling for other media hosters.

      Until piefed improves, the choice you have is hence not Uploads to someplace not reddit, or links to reddit, but links to reddit, or no content here at all. So, be careful what you wish for.