Although committing the feature to the Github repository has finished, the feature will be available for you when your instance updates the Lemmy version to 0.20, 1.0, or higher.

If anyone has other suggestions to mitigate this

Firefox has “permissions.default.image” (link) option that disables image loading, but this Wikipage is very old so I’m not sure whether it works properly in current FIrefox.

I’d write a bookmarklet for that case:

javascript:
{
const name = 'ABC';
const d = new Date();
const year = d.getFullYear();
const month = d.getMonth();
const date = d.getDate();
document.activeElement.value = `${year}/${month}/${date} ${name}`;
void 0;
}

This bookmarklet inserts the desired text into the currently focused text box. Tested on Lemmy Web UI.

What program are you using to write or edit the comments?

As already suggested, take a look at i3 Window Manager’s docs: https://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html because Sway (works on Wayland) is a port of i3 (works on X11).

Here’s the relevant issue: https://github.com/LemmyNet/jerboa/issues/1666

I believe that detection works for posts in the same community too. I posted two same links in a community and both was detected as cross-posted:

• https://lemm.ee/post/31756832
• https://lemm.ee/post/38772950

You can get the cross posts via API resposne. See cross_posts field in the response of https://<instance>/api/v3/post?id=<ID>.