Wistful

No, the images would be untouched. And those don't really contain copyrighted characters either.

The reason to upload it directly to an instance would be just for better combability with lemmy (some image links may not show correctly on lemmy, or may be missing the thumbnail...)
On reddit, they upload it directly, and link the source.

It's not. The oldest one I found on TinEye is before AI (2014) . It just got so jpeg'd over time that the line in the rock looks like a finger.

Did you maybe miss the linked article? :D

Most mobile apps can, and on desktop I found these 2 methods that I mentioned in the comments here. Maybe you find it useful.

I also found out that Tesseract (Source) Has the word filtering in the settings.

Well I don't use either of those platforms, I was just curious. I just shared what I observed, I guess it does sound like a complaint.
Mostly disappointed that there even is a need for such a thing.

So all 3 people on the whole bluesky who even know they can do that or give any fuck about mastodon.

So you can't interact at all, or see bluesky comments or anything. It's basically as if you subscribed to an RSS feed. Pretty useless no?

Never really understood the appeal of twitter-like platforms anyway.

They allegedly remove posts/comments about lemmy? And even if they don't, I feel like it could have the opposite effect. People would see those posts just like ads/promotion/spam. Which would give lemmy a bad rep. Unless something big happens, like some big community switching to lemmy, or someone with a big following promotes lemmy, it will hardly see a big spike in user count.

The only way is to passively "advertise" it. Maybe add the link to your lemmy account in your reddits about you section, if you are making OC add your lemmy handle there as well...

And the last way, which is most likely the best way to do it, is to post good content on lemmy, keep communities alive. And people will eventually join.

Suugar? Ripe banana is already sweet enough.

There is a script that can do that if you are comfortable using that: https://github.com/howdy-tsc/LemmyTools
It only works on the lemmy's own webui. From what I can tell, Alexandrite doesn't have such feature.

That's an awesome shot. Thanks for sharing.