Comment on What are the best features of Lemmy that aren't available in Reddit?

Ranslite@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• otter@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  All the apps and frontends need to implement countermeasures, so that you can turn off image previews as needed

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• skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • Ranslite@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    wtf

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    • skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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      • Ranslite@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It basically takes your IP address, looks up an estimated town based on some free geoip database you can download, and renders that as text inside an image.

        OK, less magic than expected.

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  • StephniBefni@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s crazy, it knows where I live.

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  • paradiso@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    im scared

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  • UncleBadTouch@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    im just south of okotoks, kind of a small world out here.

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    • skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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      • UncleBadTouch@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        yeah i seen your other comment. still kinda funny to me tho. I use a vpn router, multi wan, so not really too worried.

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• ABCDE@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Didn’t new reddit start having that? Never saw it except when not logged in mind you.

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  • Localhorst86@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It did, but it was a “premium feature” - paying users would have to “boost” a community to alow them to enable this feature.

    Only when enough users boosted, the feature became available. And once that threshold was no longer reached, the feature would go away.

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    • ABCDE@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      …fun. They really took us for granted, eh.

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    • Send_me_nude_girls@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Also it never worked in my third party app and became some stupid placeholder scrapyard, as you couldn’t see the image.

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• Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Actually that feature isn’t even that much abused So here is an useless gif

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