• grue@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Don’t link images from Reddit. They do some fuckery where they redirect from the bare file to an HTML page containing it.

    Just straight-up steal the image and re-upload it to Lemmy instead, like this (hidden in a spoiler tag in this case because WTF):

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    • cageythree@lemmy.ml
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      6 days ago

      Having your URL end with …/file.ext and not linking to the raw file.ext should be illegal.

    • F/15/Cali@threads.net@sh.itjust.works
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      Ugh, even when I no longer go there, they still manage to piss me off. Still, siphoning pennies from them with image hosting costs outweighs my minor annoyance. Self hosting is costly