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  • @c1177johuk
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    -11 year ago

    Just an assumption, but maybe to discover local lemmy instances hosted on your home network.

    • @[email protected]
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      1 year ago

      according to the github issue it only happens if memmy preloads a post that links to a local network ip. which causes memmy to ask permission to access the local network ip.