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.

  • doctorskullOP
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    351 year ago

    Just to be clear, no hate at all for the_picard_maneuver!

    • Track_Shovel
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      1 year ago

      I don’t hate him either, but I suspect a lot of the memes come from reddit. Not that I care. The memes are dope

      • The Picard Maneuver
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        301 year ago

        Yeah, I make OC for lemmy occasionally, but the majority of memes are saved from other sites.

        I see it as a doing a little bit of dumpster diving so that lemmy doesn’t have to.

        • Track_Shovel
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          151 year ago

          It’s appreciated. There’s no way with how prolific you are that you could sustain it if it was all OC.

          • The Picard Maneuver
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            91 year ago

            Oh god, it would be practically full time. I’m still really slow at making memes, but I’m starting to learn the tricks.

            • @SpaceNoodle
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              41 year ago

              I still don’t see how what you’re doing isn’t full-time.

              • The Picard Maneuver
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                21 year ago

                It really doesn’t feel like too much. I just drop a few memes whenever I find a free minute or two. Usually during the day, but sometimes I go hours or even a busy day without thinking about it.

                It means that I’m using lemmy as much as I used to check reddit though, but I’m having fun actually contributing instead of lurking this time around.

  • @illumrial
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    321 year ago

    They post so fast, they appear to be in two places at the same time.

  • @[email protected]
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    141 year ago

    I love u/the_picard_maneuver but I don’t love that I can’t just tap their posts to view the image in the browser, have to click the link and leave Lemmy to see them.

    • The Picard Maneuver
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      111 year ago

      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?

      • Xusontha
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        101 year ago

        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

        • @[email protected]
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          1 year ago

          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

          • Xusontha
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            1 year ago

            That’s more complex than I understand so I’ll take your word lol

            All I know is instances have what look to be old links to media that gets fixed whenever you clear cache

        • The Picard Maneuver
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          51 year ago

          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.

          • Xusontha
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            31 year ago

            I think I mentioned it to one of them, but I don’t know if they know the extent or if they’re just working on it

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        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 Picard Maneuver
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          11 year ago

          That might be it. On top of not federating images, I know that Lemm.ee has file size restrictions for its users too (to reduce load and keep things fast, I think), so maybe there’s something related to that as well.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        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!

    • Xusontha
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      41 year ago

      You can fix it by clearing your cache or by using a different client like voyager or photon

    • @[email protected]
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      Yeah startrek.website doesn’t technically allow hotlinking, which lemm.ee is doing.

      The thing is, apps just ignore that hotlink forbiddance, while browsers respect it. And other instances federate images.

  • @[email protected]
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    31 year ago

    They is how it begins. They give you lots of free stuff and once you’re hooked, they start to enshittify everything and ask you for more money or ad revenue. “The picard manoeuvre” may seem like an internet hero now, but beware! (JK of course, you’re the mvp)