Hmm. Obviously compatibility is tough, but I’d say the worst kind of fallback is the “I’m not seeing what other people are seeing, but I don’t know what I’m missing and there’s nothing to even indicate to be that I am missing anything” version…

Until the compatibility (or more obvious incompatibility) is written into the Lemmy server and my client, and then that’s deployed to my server, I worry that anytime I see something say something that doesn’t obviously line up with the photo, I’m going up wonder “are they misinterpreting this picture, or are they seeing a different picture?”

I feel like a better fallback, honestly, would just be a link that says “ALBUM” because if someone is assembling an image gallery, then only showing the first image and discarding the rest is probably never their intention. They picked multiple images for a reason.

What do the multi-image posts look like when federated to Lemmy? Even if I don’t see the extra images, I hope there’s at least some sign I’m missing something so I can go looking elsewhere.