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Cake day: June 5th, 2023

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  • Thanks!

    I can confirm that the problem is instance specific. I was able to share both images on this account, but I had issues sharing the second image with a lemmy.ml account.

    The first image has the URL https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b934b4ac-8e4b-4bde-a619-a70b819233ad.webp, while the second (error) had the URL https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Flemmy.world%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2Fcc5ef910-356c-4250-9be8-ec50b5a910a4.webp

    I think this would be a bug for the Boost developer to solve, and hopefully your two examples will be helpful for that :)








  • With the proxy websites, it’s more of an alternative frontend where you still need an account on the platform.

    What might be happening is

    • your device or IP address is flagged from your previous attempts
    • they’ve connected it to your real name / shadow profile somehow

    So if you really need to use it and there’s no alternative, you could do one of

    • make the real account, ideally from a privacy friendly browser, and give the absolute minimum info you can. Name and email, no profile image, privacy settings to max

    • make an account on a new device / wifi network, and have it be believable for the kind of person joining Facebook for the first time. I haven’t tried this myself but I’ve heard it mentioned before

    Whether you made an account or not, you can keep an eye out for alternatives. Over here there are a few alternatives, and one of them (Karrot) has been growing in popularity

    https://betakit.com/south-koreas-neighbourhood-buy-and-sell-app-karrot-hits-one-million-canadian-users-builds-toronto-engineering-hub/

    It might enshitify at some point, but it’s been nice so far