Instagram is an absolute pain when you don’t have an account. And if you don’t like Instagram, you probably don’t have an account… which makes it extra annoying when people post Instagram links.
I’ll confess, though it will be no surprise, I am not a tech expert, I had never heard of Lemmy.zip— my belief in actual federation was on faith until you mentioned dot zip. Wow, I thought, it works.
Try adding ‘uu’ before ‘instagram’ on the links. For example, on this one:
https://www.uuinstagram.com/reel/DPv-nqPCtkX/
Doing this will make the embed work so people don’t have to actually go to Instagram to see the video.
(It won’t work here because it’s a comment instead of the original post, but hopefully you understand what I mean.)
Indeed… the next time I drop a slew… I’ll use this method!
A lot of people are really alienated by instagram and for good reason. I see our use of it here more as putting it on trial.
Instagram is an absolute pain when you don’t have an account. And if you don’t like Instagram, you probably don’t have an account… which makes it extra annoying when people post Instagram links.
Looks like this method works but we lose the thumbnail. Well… perhaps it will slow the haters down?
I can’t see thumbnails anyways on lemmy.zip, so it’s a straight upgrade for me…
I’ll confess, though it will be no surprise, I am not a tech expert, I had never heard of Lemmy.zip— my belief in actual federation was on faith until you mentioned dot zip. Wow, I thought, it works.