yoasif

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[–] yoasif@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

One thing that I neglected to mention is that since the SRI hashes are calculated, previews can be cached by peers other than the originating host - since they are verifiable, anyone can pass them along and the client can verify the payload.

Not something I really fleshed out in discovery, but if there is interest, that might make it more production ready.

[–] yoasif@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Okay - it would have been nice to learn where the proposal fails, but I understand that I can't access your expertise for free. Take it easy!

[–] yoasif@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

It really feels like you didn't read my post. I specifically called out caching as a concern, and even if we see more requests, they will be cheap to serve.

 

Starting in Firefox version 142, Mozilla released a “Link Previews” feature.

While the feature is problematic, commenters pointed out that some previews are helpful – e.g. on Wikipedia, where a preview will appear when people hover over a wiki-linked page.

Other commenters pondered about some minimal way to replicate this elsewhere, and it seemed to be worth investigation. Read on as I propose an enhancement to the Fediverse (and maybe even web standards) to make Link Previews great: the Link Preview Manifest.

 

Starting in Firefox version 142, Mozilla released a “Link Previews” feature.

While the feature is problematic, commenters pointed out that some previews are helpful – e.g. on Wikipedia, where a preview will appear when people hover over a wiki-linked page.

Other commenters pondered about some minimal way to replicate this elsewhere, and it seemed to be worth investigation. Read on as I propose an enhancement to the Fediverse (and maybe even web standards) to make Link Previews great: the Link Preview Manifest.

[–] yoasif@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I could use a primer on Lemmy, since frankly I don't know the culture all that much. If you have a pointer to something in mind, I'd appreciate it.

FWIW, I've gotten banned from two forums already (ha) so you aren't kidding. 😜

[–] yoasif@lemmy.world -3 points 1 month ago

Thanks for letting me know! 🥰

[–] yoasif@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

It's annoying to have to create a new account since federation from mbin to Lemmy doesn't seem to work across many instances. That and adding a thumbnail to many Lemmy communities simply strips the shared link.

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