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  • The Picard Maneuver@startrek.website
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    1 year 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?

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      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

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        1 year 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

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          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

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        1 year 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.

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          1 year 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

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      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.

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        1 year 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.

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      1 year 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!