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  • Awoo [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    Oh I think you misunderstood me, I was interested in what the technical reasoning behind it was.

    • NewHexbearNewMe [they/them]
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      1 year ago

      causes federation/mobile app confusion (if user types in the wrong one their app can't load the site properly. easy to handle in browser, less easy with apps in the mix that don't follow redirects) and makes user tags longer.

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        Makes sense. I guess apps don't care about htaccess unless the dev specifically writes it in.

        • NewHexbearNewMe [they/them]
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          1 year ago

          I was talking about 301/302 redirects from the web server. browsers don't need to read htaccess files either, otherwise clients could simply choose to ignore the configuration contained in them which is often security sensitive. They are just used by apache to store directory-specific configuration. Lemmy instances generally use nginx anyhow tho.