During downtime I didn’t really care about surfing on reddit, but it does feel a bit weirder to surf into some “random” Lemmy instance like lemmy.dbzer0.com on my work computer for some reason. Do you surf the fediverse at work?
During downtime I didn’t really care about surfing on reddit, but it does feel a bit weirder to surf into some “random” Lemmy instance like lemmy.dbzer0.com on my work computer for some reason. Do you surf the fediverse at work?
Some instances at least will proxy the images requests, naking all traffic appears to be from your home instance but it’s not a guarantee. We had to turn it off because of some issues early during the rollout, we’ll look into turning it back on soon.
Mine is setup like that as well, but IIRC it’s only for thumbnails. When you open an image, it’s requested from the original server.
Browser pre-loading does DNS requests and sometimes even loads the full page in advance without even clicking a link, for faster load times. So it all depends on your app/browser/instance combo.
Since 0.19.4 you have the possibility as the instance admin to proxify all external images
https://join-lemmy.org/news/2024-06-07_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.4_-_Image_Proxying_and_Federation_improvements
Must’ve missed it, damn that’s pretty cool thanks!