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You know "they" is one dude, right?
@ernest more specifically.
I don't know if tagging him sends him a notification, but if you're reading this @ernest, it's doing the thumbnail thing but we kbin users are seeing a picture of a naked licking a lollypop on a linux post.
It's funny but I do think it's a bug rather than a feature.
This is well known and Ernest is working on a passel of fixes, and is really spread thin. I'd suggest tagging him for any bug (new or not) vs reporting an issue via bugtracker is counterproductive, and probably just adding to his stress.
https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues
Not sure if anyone else pointed it out to you, but op posted a thing, then edited the post to capitalize on an exploit.
Software is actually pretty intensely hard to create.
Ernest has done his best at creating a federverse instance for all us Kbin users, but also, none of us were here 3 years ago.
I also don't see Ernest becomming a Spez In 7 years, so I applaud the effort and the platform, and if we get more robust nsfw thumbnail handling, cool, but I also love the ability to edit my posts to fix my typos and whatnot, trolls thumbnails titties and all sometimes.
There are other contributors (szsz has submitted a PR this week, for example), but its all reviewed by ernest AFAIK.
I prefer to think of it as a feature and would prefer if it didn't get fixed.
Federverse is different from kbin's inception is different from reddit or its inception.
I like Kbin, and it's all because of Ernest's efforts.