Images on Lemmy visible for users from outside?

@Fediverse

I have a question to all of you who have subscribed to Lemmy groups from Fediverse projects that aren't Lemmy. Who follow Lemmy groups from e.g. #Mastodon, #GlitchSoc, #Pleroma, #Akkoma, #MissKey, what's still called #CalcKey, #FoundKey, #Mitra, #GoToSocial, #Socialhome, #Friendica etc., but also #kbin. And I sincerely hope that I'm not the only subscriber to this entire group who isn't on Lemmy.

My question is: If a Lemmy post contains an image or any other media, can you see it?

I'm on #Hubzilla. And when someone posts something with an image in it, I can see the post, but I can't see the image. When someone posts something with a video in it, I can't see the video either.

I can see images in comments with no problem. But I can't see them in posts.

How about you on Mastodon? Or on CalcKey? Or on /kbin? Or elsewhere?

I'm asking and hoping for replies because I need to find out if the issue is on Lemmy's or on Hubzilla's side so I can file a bug report.

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CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world · 5 pts · 3y

Hi there! The links in your response are not clickable for Lemmy users, here are the clickable versions: !fediverse@lemmy.world

Nepenthe@kbin.social · 3 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Kbin, here. Lemmy images come through fine 80-90% of the time, with a rare case that the post will federate but utterly forget the image. I don't believe it's ever missed a video, but I don't often stop for those in order to weigh in.

@macrophotography started out repeatedly losing the image when they first started federating with kbin.social, but it resolved in a day and after checking, it still works fine.

CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world · 2 pts · 3y

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !macrophotography@lemmy.world

eshep@social.trom.tf · 2 pts · 3y

@jupiter_rowland Friendica always(?) shows just a link to the original post as the "title" and post text under it. If I go to the title link, of course all displays as it should since I'm now viewing it from a lemmy instance. But no, never seen a picture as part of a #lemmy post in #friendica.

southsamurai@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 3y (2 replies)

I follow a few users on lemmy from mastodon. The pictures show just fine

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu · 1 pts · 3y (1 reply)

@southsamurai Do you follow single users or whole communities?

For I follow communities. And I can see neither images nor videos.

southsamurai@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 3y

Single users

jrp@hub.kliklak.net · 0 pts · 3y (1 reply)

@Jupiter Rowland I tried subscribing to a Lemmy group from HZ, didn't work out. What's the trick?

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu · 1 pts · 3y

@_jayrope

  • Make sure the community is not on a Lemmy 0.18.0 instance. That version has a federation bug.

  • Visit the community with your Web browser (which is a given since Hubzilla doesn't have any working client apps).

  • Copy the URL of the community (https://lemmy-instance.tld/c/community) from the address bar.

  • On your Hubzilla instance, go to the Connections page.

  • Click the green + Add button.

  • Paste the copied Lemmy URL into the dialogue that opens then and confirm.

At least this worked for me.

jrp@hub.kliklak.net · 0 pts · 3y (3 replies)

@Juno Rowland Is there an issue on our git already? Or an issue at Lemmy's git, alternatively?

juno_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu · 0 pts · 3y (2 replies)

@_jayrope @Jupiter Rowland will file one.

jrp@hub.kliklak.net · 0 pts · 3y (1 reply)

@Juno Rowland Let me know...

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu · 1 pts · 3y

@_jayrope I've filed an issue for Lemmy a while ago, but Nutomic says that Lemmy is working properly, and the issue has to be on Hubzilla's side.

Now I've also filed one for hubzilla-addons, hoping that it has to do with Pubcrawl. If not, I'll have to file it for hubzilla-core again.