This isn’t really a me thing, this is kbin servers themselves. They all fetch the image from the posts and cache it to make thumbnails on their server which they host themselves. Ever since maintenance, the kbin instances appear to have trouble fetching the images to cache them. I’ll try to gather more data from instance admins, perhaps something changed with the request/response headers or something else that is causing them to get blocked.
It looks like ever since this maintenance, no kbin instances can get images from startrek.website:
https://kbin.run/d/startrek.website
https://kbin.social/d/startrek.website?p=3
https://kbin.cafe/d/startrek.website?p=3
https://fedia.io/d/startrek.website/newest?p=4
(the links atm go to ~3 days ago when maintenance happened but ofc will start to drift as more posts are made)
You can see the thumbnails disappear exactly at the mark of the maintenance and ever since then they’re gone. If you see thumbnails after that, they’re usually wrong ones that are being loaded from different posts (there’s a separate issue in for that now). I was wondering if you were aware of any issues or changes that happened because of this maintenance that would prevent kbin instances from fetching thumbnails? I’ve raised this in the kbin matrix chat as well
I remember seeing a similar post recently and it didn’t seem like there was the ability to restrict posting in a magazine to the creator/mods at the moment: https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/272000/Magazine-only-I-can-post-to
It’s possible another fediverse tool would match more what you are aiming for, kbin might not be too far off but it and lemmy definitely seem more about focusing on communities / discussions than people. Definitely check out mastodon / firefish / akkoma
Edit: I do want to say I think kbin could be good for that in the future; RheingoldRiver and others have put in a bunch of good issues about improving how microblogs are displayed / discovered, but I find it still a bit rough to notice microblog posters at the moment
/sub/microblog shows you unsubscribed magazines? I don’t experience that, so just want to make sure. It’s kind of difficult to get to, I realize now, as if you click on microblog and then click on the “subscribed” menu item it actually takes you back to threads (/sub) instead. The only way I’ve found to get to the page (besides via url) is first go to subscribed threads and then click microblog in the header.
This question has plagued my mind for decades, because the main character of the tv show Eureka, Jack Carter, always answered his radio/phone with this. And to this day I have no idea what words he was saying or why he always said it. I had started to think he was saying “gofer” which is
An employee who runs errands in addition to performing regular duties.
But that seemed a bit weird for the sheriff to say
They did reply in this thread, though to another commenter so maybe the notification might not have gone to you, not sure how they work for threads you post.
But so you don’t have to go search for it, they said:
Agree and I will work on it (I’m the mod btw)
Domain blocking isn’t quite the same as instance blocking. It generally works for text posts or image posts from that instance’s users, but things like image posts may not be on the feddit.de domain. For instance, when I block that domain, I see the latest thread in m/ich_iel@feddit.de is actually from the domain discuss.tcncs.de (as shown in () next to the title). This is because the domain of an image post is where the image is hosted, as users posting images upload it to their own instance, not the instance the magazine is on. Ernest last said instance blocking should be coming in the future
I am not toooooooo sure; I’m not familiar with lemmy myself. You could try adding the scheme before it, so: https://lemmy.world/c/beebutts or perhaps go about it the long way with url linking [lemmy.world/c/beebutts](https://lemmy.world/c/beebutts) lemmy.world/c/beebutts
Heads up, the last link in your post has an extra .com
Just a note that the original team moved to PrivacyGuides. I didn’t do much reading into the entire ordeal as it seems like a sort of each side has a story ( here’s privacyguides ), but you can see on the site you linked it seems to be a bunch of ads and crypto now.
Just to follow up on this, contributors to kbin investigated and found that startrek.website appears to block user agents that contain “curl” in it now.
Example:
curl -v --user-agent "curl" https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/3ff1b940-75da-4e6b-8948-834ebd4b454c.jpegtimes out while:
curl -v --user-agent "anything-else" https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/3ff1b940-75da-4e6b-8948-834ebd4b454c.jpegworks. kbin apparently sends
User-Agent: Symfony HttpClient (Curl)in its requests for images, which is different than how it handles other fetch requests. they’ve made a PR to change kbin to send the user agent it uses elsewhere in those image requests https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/pulls/1098 once that is approved / merged they should start working again as instances update. It’d be nice if, assuming this is all accurate, the block on curl could be removed so people don’t have to wait for the PR / instances to update but I understand if that is difficult