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HOW AM I JUST FINDING OUT WE OWN HEXBEAR.COM??? WHICH ONE OF YOUZE

Yes, you are on the right track.

What actually happened is, for the migration back to upstream lemmy, our devs developed and contributed the custom emoji feature, so that we could keep them, but since we were uploading them through the UI not baking them into the app when it was built as static assets, they had to go into pictrs (the image backend), which doesn’t support SVGs yet. So as part of our migration we converted all SVG emotes back to PNG (apparently at a pretty substantial resolution).

They render correctly on our side because the UI recognizes that they are a local custom emoji and applies different CSS than we do for other embedded images, but as currently written, there is no simple way to differentiate a federated emoji from any other embedded image, so when federated, our emoji get rendered as just any image, at whatever size the file is. We will likely contribute a fix for this upstream, though resizing all of our emotes to a consistent size would also do the trick, and may be undertaken as a stopgap in the mean time.

yes! Movie night going on now at live.hexbear.net

for posts and comments made from other instances, that button links to the post/comment on its home instance

if you browse the frontpage by “All” you should see more and more posts from other instances as time goes on. Federation doesn’t really work retroactively, at least not yet, so it isn’t immediate.

You can see what servers we are federated with at hexbear.net/instances and if there are any comms from those that you want to see, you can paste their URL into the search box here on Hexbear to find and sub to them (or to force an initial sync of the comm, as they dont federate unless at least one user here has subbed to it)

This is in progress, we needed some last minute clarification on one issue before going forward with federation, but we are now fully federation capable, it’s basically just a toggle away now

Ohhhh right they’re more like barges. You could conceivably tow one with a nuclear icebreaker or somethign though right. i can dream

And obviously there’s an environmental cost to moving them around

I mean if they’re nuclear powered… or will their propulsion still be diesel? that’d be sad

weird.

I can really tell I’m not fully awake yet because I read that bit about medicare and went “huh? even they want us to fund our pittance of a welfare state?” before realizing those fuckign ghouls want us to slash it to make our ratios look better. Just like greece