Near the end of my little ‘Euro comics’ rant, you may notice how I tried to slip in an offsite link, in this case from my instance, lemm.ee.

Now it looks like it… got blocked, maybe? See the before & after here.

Mateys-- Am I going crazy, or is this something we’re going to need to work around, in future?

EDIT: As stated below, re-editing the message (even with the very same link) cleared up the problem. Still, I could see Reddit trying to block content from the Fediverse, the more the FV grows.

    • GVasco
      7•1 year ago

      Chromium is fine in and of itself, it’s Chrome itself and other commercial variants that come loaded with spyware. But yeah I’ll still use my trusty Firefox.

        • GVasco
          2•1 year ago

          Wasn’t aware of this and will have to do a bit more research. I hope it won’t interfere as much in firefox with my current extensions and privacy but we’ll see. However this what are we supposed to use? Just default back to curl or wget? It’s not like there is an abundance other fully-fledged (using their own engine) open source browsers

          • mr_washee_washee
            2•1 year ago

            we did this to our selves. we tolerated the use of corporate-made chromium and now we pay the price. there are open source forks of firefox, but a new open source software is needed to ensure browser diversification. i am no expert of browsers but this is the word i hear around all the time.

            • GVasco
              2•1 year ago

              Browsers nowadays almost start to approach the complexity of an OS with sandboxed tabs, JavaScript engine and plugin engine. We should’ve never allowed google to get so much into our lives.

              Edit: forgot the HTML and CSS interpreters and then there’s how it all interacts, and there might still be parts that I’m not familiar with.

            • GVasco
              1•1 year ago

              Definitely agree that more browser diversification is needed beyond forks of existing projects.

  • WistfulM
    6•1 year ago

    It seems like it’s just some problem on your end.

    • @[email protected]OP
      3•1 year ago

      Thanks for testing! For some reason, re-pasting the very same link to a different portion of the message cleared up the problem. Weird, but… okay.

      So maybe it was just a glitch, and maybe I was just being paranoid, but the more the FV competes with Reddit, the more I wouldn’t be surprised if Reddit tries to bork with links directing to the FV.

      @[email protected]

  • @gorillakitty
    3•1 year ago

    Some of the servers have been getting overloaded, could it just be bad timing?