this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2023
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A Community for people to create posts with GIFs, MP4s or WEBPs - anything that's animated and reasonably short.
Images can be often be hosted directly on Lemmy, or on external sites such as https://imgur.com/ or https://catbox.moe/.
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Whatever the rules are for when lemmy copies an image to an instance vs. leaving it as a link, they are frustrating.
It's copied this one, from catbox.moe, so the thumbnail is https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/3a7734bd-7e53-4574-8557-7f2cc081e986.webp?format=webp&thumbnail=256
But another one I did - here - it didn't, so the thumbnail is just https://files.catbox.moe/d81jm0.webp
The first thumbnail works on lemmy.world, but breaks for instances it federates too (that I've seen)
The second thumbnail works everywhere (again, that I've seen)
I don't understand the logic of copying images in anyway, especially from sites that are exclusively set up to host them.