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Gregory

Added support for displaying images.

Now a question. I currently hotlink everything, including profile pictures. Downloading all media and keeping it eternally like Mastodon does seems to me like a terrible idea. But then hotlinking is also not ideal – Mastodon has images in different sizes internally while only serving the biggest ones through AP.

I'm thinking about something in-between. A LRU cache with admin-configurable size maybe?

#Smithereen #ActivityPub #mastodev

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Gregory

And then I'd also like to serve images in WebP whenever possible (read: to browsers that aren't Safari) to reduce data usage, but again, hotlinking makes this impossible.

marius

@grishka why is hotlinking not ideal? That's how the web is suppsed to work, isn't it?

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