Casually hands over receipt:

Have found it impossible to upload this file directly to Lemmy. It’s already a compressed WEBP file, but whatever settings I use, Lemmy insists on copying it and compressing it further, until there’s only about 5 pixels left. So the only options left are for the post to be a link to the external url, or for it to look like a comment post, but with an inline image squashed inside. Neither are ideal.

EDIT: My experience with Lemmy:

EDIT 2: Now have something a bit more acceptable, loaded directly to Lemmy.
Lemmy always seems to compress WEBP at 75% - I uploaded an image, it compressed it, I downloaded Lemmy’s version and re-up’d that, and it compressed it again. Presumably I could do this forever.

So, I created the original WEBP using the ‘lossless’ setting (it was about 2.5MB), uploaded that and let Lemmy convert it, and now it doesn’t look too bad. The only thing is I had to use the version I tested at enterprise.lemmy.ml, 'cos feddit.nl got confused by the transparent frames. So the trick seems to be: upload the least efficient version imaginable

Hey there OP with the OC, thanks for playing along with today’s theme. If you ever have any other suggestions for a Wednesday Theme, please feel free to get in touch (typically with me, RHO, or WhoRoger). So far, we’ve had Droids, Aliens, Pirates, Expanded Universe, D+ TV, and Rhymes. Things will cycle around of course, but if there’s anything else you want to dedicate a day too, we’ll do what we can (by which I just mean: create a sticky; have a crack at it myself; and hope someone else does too, but it’s something, at least)

Example 3: Best, um, Discourse

Example 2: Best 'Ships

Example 1: Best Dialogue

NSFW’ing stuff isn’t a particularly y good way to hide spoilers, btw (it’s not the same as it is on Reddit)

It will (probably) blur the image for anyone who’s set their account to view NSFW, but the majority of members here just won’t see the post at all.

To the extent that spoiler tags are supported, it might be better to include images as an inline link, surrounded by spoiler tags.

Test:

I’ve always wondered why this scene from “New York, I Love You” is used for Star Wars stuff.

Please try to be a bit less sweary. If the comments get out of hand on these sorts of posts, then we have to start asking posters to tag stuff as NSFW, and then a lot less people will see them.

(edit re: downvotes, well this is the last time I’ll ever try to reason with anyone, I guess)

I mean, if you’re trying to post an obscure meme, the very least you could do is not feature a mountain that Anakin Skywalker himself didn’t obliquely refer to in Skyewalkers: A Clone Wars Story.

If my tears can’t cure me, I doubt they’d do much for you.

Well that’s certain an expansion … of the type of vocabulary usually seen in Star Wars.

This being the Top Post of All Time suggests that everyone likes the idea of being appreciative of new content more than actually being appreciative of new content.

“I do, I do be threatening you”

It depends how you’re accessing Lemmy.
On the website, you can click on the 3 vertical dots near the post or comment, and chose ‘Block User’ from there.
On the Voyager app, you can click the user’s name, and then select it from the 3 horizontal dots.
It might be that whatever app you’re using doesn’t support it. Before Voyager did, I used to go into my Settings and then search for the user (e.g. [at] bot [at] lemmit [dot] online) in the ‘Blocks’ sections.

I like the idea that these reviewers all had the concept for a perfect Barbie movie, and are then criticising this one for not living up to it.

I think that - like most people - when I heard that Gerwig was making a movie out of Barbie, I thought: how the hell is she going to do that?

Yeah it’s a thankless task. I don’t know who it was who thought “Let’s start our own Reddit … with reposted stuff from Reddit!”

I disable them individually as them come up, but it’s a pain, and can see why people just Death Star the lot of them (is “death star” a verb?).

As the author of a bot that I hope is useful though, it’s kind of a bummer.

Thank you, but it was the one after that one. You wouldn’t have seen it. I know 'cos after I tagged it, I couldn’t see it either (well, not without changing my account settings, which makes Lemmy into a whole other experience.

Tagging something as NSFW is just a click, so no biggie

This is true, but I think Lemmy accounts default to not showing NSFW stuff, so most people browsing this Community won’t see anything tagged with it. So the mechanism for avoiding potential lewd comments, is to make sure it won’t get any comments at all.

This is one theory. The other is that the NSFW meme I posted earlier that went nowhere wasn’t as funny as I thought it was. But that seems inconceivable.

Like a literal NSFW tag on the post? I’ve just done that, and now I can’t see my own post (because my intentions are better than my thoughts, I guess)

Or like, just putting “NSFW” as text in the title?