federate post url as image depending on mime type

crates/api_common/src/request.rs

@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ async fn generate_pictrs_thumbnail(
   let pictrs_config = context.settings().pictrs_config()?;
 
   if pictrs_config.disable_external_link_previews {
-    return Ok(proxy_image_link(image_url.clone(), context)?);
+    return Ok(proxy_image_link(image_url.clone(), context).await?.into());
   }
 
   // fetch remote non-pictrs images for persistent thumbnail link

crates/apub/src/objects/post.rs

@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ impl Object for ApubPost {
     let attachment = self
       .url
       .clone()
-      .map(|url| Attachment::new(url, self.url_content_type.clone()))
+      .map(|url| Attachment::new(url.into(), self.url_content_type.clone()))
       .into_iter()
       .collect();
 

crates/apub/src/protocol/objects/page.rs

@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ use activitypub_federation::{
 use chrono::{DateTime, Utc};
 use itertools::Itertools;
 use lemmy_api_common::context::LemmyContext;
-use lemmy_db_schema::newtypes::DbUrl;
 use lemmy_utils::error::{LemmyError, LemmyErrorType};
 use serde::{de::Error, Deserialize, Deserializer, Serialize};
 use serde_with::skip_serializing_none;
@@ -168,14 +167,23 @@ impl Page {
 }
 
 impl Attachment {
-  pub(crate) fn new(url: DbUrl, media_type: Option<String>) -> Attachment {
+  /// Creates new attachment for a given link and mime type.
+  pub(crate) fn new(url: Url, media_type: Option<String>) -> Attachment {
+    let is_image = media_type.clone().unwrap_or_default().starts_with("image");
+    if is_image {
+      Attachment::Image(Image {
+        kind: Default::default(),
+        url,
+      })
+    } else {
       Attachment::Link(Link {
-      href: url.into(),
+        href: url,
         media_type,
         r#type: Default::default(),
       })
     }
   }
+}
 
 // Used for community outbox, so that it can be compatible with Pleroma/Mastodon.
 #[async_trait::async_trait]

crates/utils/src/settings/structs.rs

@@ -91,7 +91,8 @@ pub struct PictrsConfig {
   /// storage usage. It may also be necessary in certain countries which don't allow copying images
   /// from newspaper articles, but only allow hotlinking.
   ///
-  /// If this setting is enabled, the Opengraph image is directly returned as thumbnail.
+  /// If this setting is enabled, the Opengraph image is directly returned as thumbnail. Note that
+  /// it still gets proxied through the local instance if `image_proxy` is enabled.
   #[default(false)]
   pub disable_external_link_previews: bool,
 }

crates/utils/translations

@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit e943f97fe481dc425acdebc8872bf1fdcabaf875
+Subproject commit 83540721c6035c701f4ef1daf7d95f78a51fedf7