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  • Another word on a more upbeat topic.

    First, I have a Giphy implementation in the works to add to Memmy. In terms of privacy, I have taken steps to mitigate tracking that comes along with the use of a Meta product while also helping to allow users to communicate with more than just text.

    Giphy has a SDK already made for React Native. Unfortunately, it has some “analytics” wrapped in. The API itself can be used without those analytics, but that comes at the cost of the almost certain tracking they do with just the searches and your IP.

    As a result, this is what I came up with:

    1. You submit a search for a GIF (think Discord’s GIF search
    2. The request is sent to a Memmy server which then processes the request for you
    3. You receive a response with both the direct URL to each of the GIF results as well as a proxy URL. All of the results are displayed to you through the proxy.
    4. When you select a GIF, the direct link is added to your post or comment as an image embed.
    5. In a future update, there are plans for Lemmy to offer built in proxying of images. Hopefully this will be available soon. However if it is not, for 30 minutes the GIF you added to the comment will continue to be proxied through Memmy so as not to create an immediate link to you creating the request for the image.

    This is somewhat similar to the Signal implementation of Giphy some time ago. I’m focused on cleaning up some other issues right now, but I’d like to add this in sometime in the near future. Will keep you posted.


  • A sincere thank you for the kind words :)

    As I mention above, the second half of this message is not intended for the vast majority of users. And even for the users it is geared toward, it isn’t meant to be rude at all but to be informative.

    I completely get how easy it is to forget that large projects are often times the result of a handful of people all with their own daily lives to deal with. I’ve run into a number of projects recently that have absolutely blown my mind when it comes to the difference in the size of the team vs the size of the product.




  • I am a single person working on this right now. I am totally fine with you using whichever app you need to use, and I understand that if it wasn’t working for you that you’re going to switch. I have my own life commitments as well that I have to make, and managing issues through email, GitHub, and Lemmy is not feasible in the slightest.

    That said, these issues are fixed now. If you want to update and use it, that’s great. If you prefer voyager that is fine too.








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    11 months ago

    Is putting a ! infront of a markdown link not standard for an image? That’s why it’s doing it.

    Lemmy does use some different markdown formats than I have usually seen, so maybe it’s not a standard just the common thing.

    Edit: oh you meant the other way around. Anyway, weird that Reddit used that for links.