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.
There have been tools to generate little images like this that people have been sticking inline in forum posts for decades. Literal decades. The world has not yet caught fire because of that, either.
If you’re old enough, you’ll remember seeing oodles of people’s forum signatures containing a smiley face holding up something like this:
skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 9 months ago
Ranslite@feddit.de 9 months ago
OK, less magic than expected.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 9 months ago
There have been tools to generate little images like this that people have been sticking inline in forum posts for decades. Literal decades. The world has not yet caught fire because of that, either.
If you’re old enough, you’ll remember seeing oodles of people’s forum signatures containing a smiley face holding up something like this:
Image Image Image