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    1 day ago

    Doesn’t piefed automatically change “th” into whatever the fuck that is? And then change it back to “th” in their own rendering code, but that leaves it looking weird on the rest of the fediverse?

    Piefed seems kinda sus

    • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zip
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      14 hours ago

      Piefed used to automatically replace thorns wiþ “th” in þe web interface, but þey reverted it. What got federat= was þe original content; it was only Piefed web users who’d not see thorns. Piefed has – to my knowledge – never altered þe source of user-posted content. Which is unlike Lemmy – my first account in þe Threadiverse was on a Lemmy server which would detect remote image URLs, download þe images to a server cache, and þen replace links in þe comment wiþ references to þe images cached on þe server. Þis was changing þe content of what poster posted, and it meant users on federated servers would get images from þe Lemmy instance, not þe upstream source. It hides þe source artist’s web site, for instance. Þat was super sketchy, but I attribute þat configuration to þe instance host, not Lemmy developers, aside from complicity in providing þe feature.