Just by loading the image in the DM.

But to be clear. All they get at most is your IP address. That’s not worth much alone.

There is a setting that prevents sending the IP address by caching the image. lemmy.world should definitely enable that. They don’t do that right now, unfortunately.

Still the right thing

It depends on the instance configuration. If images are proxied, no traffic should show up.

They use different images.

Not that I like it. It’s just how it is.

That may be true technologically. But if the economics don’t add up it’s a bubble.

When the image of “Nicole” is loaded, your computer/phone connects to another server and transfers your IP address. But it currently looks like it’s not that big of a problem. Still a fix will be implemented soon to prevent this.

This would break a lot of sites

Thanks! Completely overlooked that

And democracy probably

Have you talked with a therapist?

That’s pretty optimistic

Does it really matter? Many laboratories around the world experiment with highly dangerous viruses and that one leaked. Not that I like it but it’s still a fact.

Hmm do you have a link to docs for that? 🤔

But shouldn’t this depend on the receiving end? I have enabled it and it still used the direct link

That’s the big question. But it looks intentional.

Apparently not https://europe.pub/comment/40270

These are phishing bots. Never interact with them.

As far as I understand do they use Bluesky’s infrastructure.

The problem isn’t the PDS but the Relays. You need terabytes of storage and and some beefy hardware to run one of these. Also there are still quite some parts centralized.