We could do what I think you’ve done, and regex the details of the attachment into ! [] ()

To be clear, this pull request doesn’t use regex, it’s just JSON deserialisation and string interpolation.

I’ve never actually seen a Mastodon user try to add an image to something that ended up as a Lemmy comment, tbh, so it’s not something I’ve thought too much about.

The pull request actually includes one, the main KDE account tags !kde@lemmy.kde.social and includes pictures in their threads regularly. It’s just hard to tell from our side as you can’t see what’s missing.

This is Mastodon’s HTML sanitiser, you can see they stipe out <img> tags.

How does Piefed handle image attachments, btw?

I wouldn’t call Bluesky’s federation fake, we’d need a working definition of ‘federation’ for that, but I would say it lacks meaningful federation.