Alt text: a picture of Spider-Man looking at a wall with the caption, “Everywhere I go, I see his face”. On the wall is a picture of the profile page for Lemmy user the_picard_maneuver.
You do? Hmm, that’s strange… I’m uploading everything through Lemmy directly and haven’t been hosting off site.
When I switch to my .world account, it doesn’t appear that way to me either. Could anyone more technical take a stab at what might be happening?
Clearing my Firefox cache after adding lemm.ee and startrek.website to my uBlock whitelist fixed the issue. Now I can see your wonderful posts easier!
I assumed it was something to do with lemm.ee’s policy with federating images to protect against CP attacks, since everyone else who says they’re having trouble is also from lemm.ee. I think what they’re doing is just linking to the other instances’ images directly, and maybe startrek.website doesn’t like that?
I can see your lemmy.world account’s posts just fine.
The problem is something to do with startrek.website, but it only affects the default UI (Lemmy-UI). I’ve seen it on a large number of images uploaded on startrek.website but viewed on another instance. It doesn’t seem to affect files uploaded to external websites though
I think it’s something about HTTP cross-origin headers that they’ve configured incorrectly. I’ll have to confirm later when I’m on a desktop browser.
Edit: It’s actually uBlock Origin blocking the images from loading! There’s a rule in EasyList that is matching *.website (it’s a lot more complicated of a rule, but that’s the gist). It blocks it unless it’s coming from one of a few whitelisted pages like lemmy.world.
I found a workaround mentioned here: https://lemm.ee/comment/3068996
Oh interesting… Yeah, I mostly post from Liftoff or Voyager on my phone, so I wouldn’t have noticed.
I wonder if the startrek.website admins are aware of the inconsistency.
