I'm not sure. In fact, where'd you get that link? The page here (I'm using kbin, FWIW) just links to https://preview.redd.it/gcdh211grbib1.jpg - which then does the shoddy trick I mentioned, serving up a page instead of the image file the URL promises so it can nag you for cookies and registration.
Anyone using the Sync for Lemmy app? I sure hope it starts supporting Kbin soon because it's hands down the best Fediverse app already. It has only been out a week.
Unfortunately, being in Kbin this Magazine is not very viewable on it yet. Something to do with Kbin doing things differently - any ideas on what that means?
Yup, the guys that make lemmy built an API fairly early on. It’s built in to lemmy itself, similar to the way reddit used to be.
Kbin is newer, and hasn’t yet prioritized an API. They may have by now, but I’m not fond of the web version at all, so I don’t use it enough to keep track of where development is.
I agree, I also think kbin isn't doing anything wrong here. But it might still be able to take actions to prevent or mitigate this, so that's why I suggested posting about it to the codeberg repository.
Browsers usually offer to download files with extensions they don't recognise, basically it's the browser saying "I can't display this, do you want to download it?". In this case the file appears to have no extension as observed by OP.
I think kbin is working fine, the preview did as expected and shared the URL of a video file (but unclear why OP doesn't see this as an mp4 video file).
My guess is OP will get the same popup if in navigates to the page with the video as he did from kbin. This issue is (I think) the video file's URL, not kbin.
Nothing at this point makes me think kbin could or would have included anything it shouldn't have in the preview.
All of that said - Would I be cautious if I saw the pop-up OP shows, yes absolutely. And while what I can see isn't hostile that doesn't 100% mean the website isn't convertly doing something on occasion, or for a subset of users. It is entirely possible to make a website show different people different things.
When I look at this post: https://kbin.social/m/politics@beehaw.org/t/343651/Trump-charged-in-Georgia-2020-election-probe-his-fourth-indictment#entry-comment-1636999 I see the thumbnail for another article....
This might be related to the artemis.camp post that showed an unrelated nsfw thumbnail there but not on kbin.social and other instances. Artemis is also running kbin.
I know one contributor to both artemis and kbin knows of the issue, but not whether it's a kbin or artemis.camp issue and what's causing it. This seems to suggest it is a kbin issue, as it looks like the same problem to me but on kbin.social.
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When I look at this post: https://kbin.social/m/politics@beehaw.org/t/343651/Trump-charged-in-Georgia-2020-election-probe-his-fourth-indictment#entry-comment-1636999 I see the thumbnail for another article....
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