HCSOThrowaway

I feel the exact same way, and it seems a bunch of other people do as well.

The other day I downvoted a post purely because of this issue, but yesterday I decided to reach out to the OP instead.

I imagine the latter is more effective not only to encourage OPs to not use .avif (assuming that’s even the issue), but because it might get noticed by someone who actually understands and can fix the issue on Piefed/Lemmy if it’s fixable.

I’m usually big on proper bug reporting, but I literally don’t know where the issue stems from and I don’t currently have the time to DM a dozen teams/people asking if they think it’s their code that’s causing it, as I’ve learned is the proper method on the fediverse when I’ve tried to “modmail” like I’ve done on Reddit in the past.

You’re not wrong, but admittedly I don’t know what else to do as the comment didn’t get a reply from OP.

In theory, they may notice that their .avif posts don’t do as well and switch to .png or .jpg or whatever Lemmy treats as something that can be thumbnailed even if they don’t know why their .avif posts do poorly.

I guess we just downvote to discourage people from doing it.

I can’t think of a crime that would apply to putting this sock over a Flock camera unless there was substantial evidence linking you to some crime that was committed immediately after you did it in the coverage area.

Obviously it’s very easy to think of a crime that would apply to destroying the pole or camera.

How come these avifs (from piefed.social) never embed properly on my lemmy.world home page, so I can’t click the thumbnail to expand them? I always have to click through to view the image.