So, creating a block to refuse media doesn't affect the blocked domain's ability to create Preview Cards?
I created several media blocks for instances, esp bot instances that I want to come across posts or follow a few accounts, hoping to control my media storage and stop unnecessary media downloads and SideKiq jobs on posts that will only be stored in my search database from the federated timeline, but the preview cards are still being created. #MastoAdmin#MastoDev
@paul My understanding is it's due to preview cards being generated locally, so technically this isn't affected by media download blocks as it's not technically touching the blocked instance.
To make matters worse, it's a very hot-button issue that hundreds or thousands of instances all reach out to generate a preview card but that's another, albeit aligned, issue.
When that issue is fixed, your preview card problem will likely be a nil issue.
@shanie
Thanks. I hope the recent press coverage on this moves the timeline up for a fix or else it could be another year
I might look and see if there is a patch or hack someone came up with to turn preview cards off completely until then. I like to read, anyway
Some of the sites gets the preview card wrong, anyway, picking a rando image from the page if its page image tags aren't correct. 😂 Sometimes the mashup is funny. One was woman give birth to triplets, but the image was a couple goats
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