You’re still cropping it. Don’t. You’re damaging the one way people actually use to find out where an image originated. It’s also the one way that survives no matter what happens to the file format or metadata.
Metadata will be lost whenever the file is hosted, proxied, thumbnailed, screenshoted or whatever. And because the internet in general aggressively strips this stuff, no-one really cares online unless the site is specifically about image organizing.
Instead it’s an organization tool mostly used for local image archives. The people who would think to look at metadata are a fraction of a fraction, and the same ones who would think to add it when it isn’t there for future reference.
Even though I use it myself for my local files, I’m not bothering to implement that for a bot whose main goal is to maintain LEMMY activity, and whose secondary goal is to drive clicks to the artists actual socials TODAY. Adding such metadata to my online posts has never, ever crossed my mind as potentially useful.
Especially on the fediverse, many instances don’t even serve the original url, but will insert a stripped and re-hosted proxy copy, for security reasons. Or a thumbnailed smaller file, for speed.
This metadata doesn’t live long once a file is online.
ah, lemmy is stripping metadata.
Apologies.
Here’s the crop+meta catbox.
You’re still cropping it. Don’t. You’re damaging the one way people actually use to find out where an image originated. It’s also the one way that survives no matter what happens to the file format or metadata.
Metadata will be lost whenever the file is hosted, proxied, thumbnailed, screenshoted or whatever. And because the internet in general aggressively strips this stuff, no-one really cares online unless the site is specifically about image organizing.
Instead it’s an organization tool mostly used for local image archives. The people who would think to look at metadata are a fraction of a fraction, and the same ones who would think to add it when it isn’t there for future reference.
Even though I use it myself for my local files, I’m not bothering to implement that for a bot whose main goal is to maintain LEMMY activity, and whose secondary goal is to drive clicks to the artists actual socials TODAY. Adding such metadata to my online posts has never, ever crossed my mind as potentially useful.
Especially on the fediverse, many instances don’t even serve the original url, but will insert a stripped and re-hosted proxy copy, for security reasons. Or a thumbnailed smaller file, for speed.
This metadata doesn’t live long once a file is online.
Here is this file, as seen by my ani.social account:
https://ani.social/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.catbox.moe%2Fzkkfy4.webp&format=webp&thumbnail=1024I’ll save you the trouble, I checked. The metadata, even in this catbox hosted copy of the file, is gone.