Back in 2023, there was this new-fangled social media thing called Lemmy.
It was pretty cool but with an annoyance: its RSS feeds didn't embed graphics.
Weirdly, they did include the text addresses of graphics that were embedded.
So if you followed a Lemmy channel in your feed reader, instead of seeing pretty
pictures, you just saw not-so-pretty nonsense like "https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/75598c1e-c833-44b5-9bc4-cae93d2a3685.webp".
It was pretty easy to write
a little program to fetch some Lemmy feeds and create new feeds with embedded graphics, and I did.
Yesterday, my little program had a hiccup and before investigating
that hiccup, I thought to check: Does Lemmy still do that annoying thing?
Lemmy now embeds graphics in their RSS feeds, yay! At some point in the
past couple of years, my little program became the workaround to a non-problem or ex-problem or something.
This morning, I shut it down. Thank you, get_memes.py . You were pretty handy for a while. 🫡 ← (That's the salute emoji, which might be difficult to distinguish from the not-smiling-face emoji depending on how big your text is.)
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