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Hide URL on image posts?

When using 'Card' or 'Full' Post Layouts, you display the URL at the bottom of the post. That's fantastic and I love it. However, for image posts (for example, memes) the URL is just the address to that lemmy instance's pictrs/image/ path and I don't think it's very helpful.

Is there a reason why you display the URL when it's just an image? I can understand including that image's direct URL when you long-press and choose the 'Share' option but I don't think it's helpful to always display it on every image. Actually, I think the 'Share' option would be a great place to put this URL since that feature already handles multiple URLs...

Note that I'm not suggesting adding a settings option to show/hide image URLs. I'm mostly asking if there's a reason to display the image's URL at all, because it feels like you're just treating image posts the same as URL posts rather than making a deliberate decision to show an image's URL.

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  • Nice catch! I'll hide the URL of image posts, you're definitely right 👍🏻🙏🏻🙇🏻

    EDIT: In my original idea this should have been there from the beginning, but due to a bug the check to show the link banner only if it wasn't the media passed (even if it should have failed). Fixed it.