• That’s because when you use wefwef through wefwef.app, your data goes through wefwef.app before going to the instance, the app AFAIK does not communicate directly with the instances yet. You basically have to decide whether you trust wefwef.app enough to proxy your data through them.

    Using m.lemmy.world would mean your data goes through lemmy.world directly, which you already chose to trust.

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      Oh, you are almost right, I was wrong. Checking the network traffic it seems images (and some parts of posts?) are fetched directly, but other elements are fetched through wefwef.app, namely everything that needs the users session. maybe this is done to process some lemmy outputs serverside into for example the notification icon? This surprised me, I was confident the only requests to wefwef.app would be static elements and the code itself.

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        This is to get around CORS. @ruud@lemmy.world just fixed CORS on lemmy.world 15 minutes ago (things move fast on Lemmy, lol) so I’ll push an update to direct connect for lemmy.world tonight!

        Edit: done ✅

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          Hey is it dynamic or you have to add a list of instances to direct connect?

          Update: sorry, just saw your answer below 🤷‍♂️

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      It would surprise me if that was the explanation since this can be easily fixed by Lemmy.world itself by not sending two Accept-Control-Allow-Origin headers, thus breaking web clients.

      Right now, I’m forced to route my own calls to my server on the app I’m making because Lemmy.world is misconfigured.

      I guess that for instance below 0.18.1, it makes sense, since Lemmy had a bug at that point that didn’t allow web clients to connect.

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      Okay what If I am already using wefwef than my data is already passed through wefwef, so there is no benefit now? or still I should logout with wef wef and use m.lemmy.world?

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        Most things passing through are public anyway, as lemmy is allmost entirely public. The only privat info is your password and wefwefs session. Those are visible in clear to the server, so could in theory be logged. If you change your password (and invalidate your sessions) after wefwef switches to direct you should be good.