Lemmy has cool features like inserting pics in post body and being very actively developed. We will get federation, an app and lemmy/hexbear's development would be accelerated because of the combined resources...

Lemmy supports display names which can be used for pronouns until hexbear devs upstream that and it also supports avatars and banners.

I'm aware that hexbear devs wanted to leave Rust behind and this way they can just upstream the features that lemmy doesn't have and leave development to lemmy's devs if they want to.

Getting back to lemmy is a lot of work but will probably be very rewarding in the long run.

I also think it'd also be great for hexbear to have posts from other comms outside of hexbear... we don't want to turn into a small closed community.

  • garbology [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Lemmy has cool features like inserting pics in post body

    Hexbear still supports that, but it's been disabled out of an abundance of caution.

    • liberal [none/use name]A
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      4 years ago

      Correct. It allows for someone to self host an image and skim the ip addresses of everyone who views the embedded image.

      This may have changed with the vanilla project since we were beta testing the site before launch, but is why we disable the feature for our site. Only allowing images uploaded to this site is an option, but like with any open source project, requires a volunteer interested in that feature to build it.

      • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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        4 years ago

        I agree that's an issue, but don't the opengraph post previews allow the same thing? I brought that up a while ago that y'all have been allowing some pretty questionable embeds like vids and pdfs in the previews that do exactly that. Or is there a whitelist or cache on the backend now?