So I guess that it only works for pictures directly hosted on Lemmy instances? Or does it work with third party image hosts like imgur?
crunchpaste
joined 2 years ago
I'm sorry about the stupid question, but how does connect compress the images? Is it on a server somewhere that compresses them remotely and sends you the smaller file, as that is the only way I can think of to reduce network usage.
If you setup a community for pulsar, you have a guaranteed subscriber in me. And if you're one of the devs I can't thank you enough for your work.
I missed Atom a lot when it was discontinued. Recently found Pulsar which is a community continuation of Atom, and it seems to be quite active.
Each chat on telegram holds a history of shared media, which is separated into tabs for media (pictures and videos), files (any other files, including uncompressed images), links (every shared link, probably the most useful one), music and so on.
It's really handy if you remember you've sent someone a link to an article and don't want to scroll through 5 months of messages.
Sadly I'm in the same boat. I've been trying to switch to Matrix, but telegram is so much better in terms of features. I really miss the shared media and links functionality.
Do we really need excuses for pirating media?
I pirate movies because I think digital access to them is overpriced, goes to the copyright holder instead of the creators, it's convenient and most importantly because I can.
I can't pirate going to the cinema, nor can I afford to build my own, therefore I gladly pay to have a seat and enjoy a movie there.
Edit: I thought this may be relevant to the movies example I gave. I don't think movie studios, giving nothing back to society after massive profits are the ones we should debate the morals of stealing with.
Got into the franchise with NV and it is still one of my favorites. Played 1, 2 and 3 while waiting for 4. It turned out to be one massive disappointment. I don't think I even played half of it.
On the other hand, at the time I found my fix in Wasteland 2.
Borderlands 2 is an absolute masterpiece. The humor was adorably cheesy, the characters were much more interesting that OG and Pre-Sequel imo (totally in love with zer0).
I should probably install it and find some friends to play with.
You can upvote yourself on most platforms. You can like yourself on Facebook, you can give yourself a heart on Instagram. It's just not considered very tasteful as it is off by default.
My guess would be that it's kind of pointless to implement checks if the liker is also the poster just to prevent them from liking themself.
I'm sure someone will post the relevant article about embrace, extend, extinguish tactics used by corporate entities. I don't have the link on hand.
That being said, my main concern is that Facebook (threads in this case) will immediately become the biggest instance by a huge margin. In turn, this will give them a lot of power over both the technical side of the fediverse (the protocol, the featured) and the tone of the community.
That's really cool. Thank you for explaining.