Alt text: a picture of Spider-Man looking at a wall with the caption, “Everywhere I go, I see his face”. On the wall is a picture of the profile page for Lemmy user the_picard_maneuver.

  • AhismaMiasma@lemm.ee
    161·
    10 months ago

    I love u/the_picard_maneuver but I don’t love that I can’t just tap their posts to view the image in the browser, have to click the link and leave Lemmy to see them.

    • The Picard Maneuver@startrek.website
      12·
      10 months ago

      You do? Hmm, that’s strange… I’m uploading everything through Lemmy directly and haven’t been hosting off site.

      When I switch to my .world account, it doesn’t appear that way to me either. Could anyone more technical take a stab at what might be happening?

      • Xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink
        10·
        10 months ago

        The problem is something to do with startrek.website, but it only affects the default UI (Lemmy-UI). I’ve seen it on a large number of images uploaded on startrek.website but viewed on another instance. It doesn’t seem to affect files uploaded to external websites though

        • xthexder@l.sw0.com
          9·
          9 months ago

          I think it’s something about HTTP cross-origin headers that they’ve configured incorrectly. I’ll have to confirm later when I’m on a desktop browser.

          Edit: It’s actually uBlock Origin blocking the images from loading! There’s a rule in EasyList that is matching *.website (it’s a lot more complicated of a rule, but that’s the gist). It blocks it unless it’s coming from one of a few whitelisted pages like lemmy.world.

          I found a workaround mentioned here: https://lemm.ee/comment/3068996

          • Xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink
            2·
            10 months ago

            That’s more complex than I understand so I’ll take your word lol

            All I know is instances have what look to be old links to media that gets fixed whenever you clear cache

        • The Picard Maneuver@startrek.website
          5·
          10 months ago

          Oh interesting… Yeah, I mostly post from Liftoff or Voyager on my phone, so I wouldn’t have noticed.

          I wonder if the startrek.website admins are aware of the inconsistency.

          • Xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink
            3·
            10 months ago

            I think I mentioned it to one of them, but I don’t know if they know the extent or if they’re just working on it

      • AhismaMiasma@lemm.ee
        3·
        9 months ago

        Clearing my Firefox cache after adding lemm.ee and startrek.website to my uBlock whitelist fixed the issue. Now I can see your wonderful posts easier!

      • Sotuanduso@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        I assumed it was something to do with lemm.ee’s policy with federating images to protect against CP attacks, since everyone else who says they’re having trouble is also from lemm.ee. I think what they’re doing is just linking to the other instances’ images directly, and maybe startrek.website doesn’t like that?

        I can see your lemmy.world account’s posts just fine.

        • The Picard Maneuver@startrek.website
          1·
          9 months ago

          That might be it. On top of not federating images, I know that Lemm.ee has file size restrictions for its users too (to reduce load and keep things fast, I think), so maybe there’s something related to that as well.

    • Azzu@lemm.ee
      1·
      9 months ago

      Yeah startrek.website doesn’t technically allow hotlinking, which lemm.ee is doing.

      The thing is, apps just ignore that hotlink forbiddance, while browsers respect it. And other instances federate images.