this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2023
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Memmy - An iOS client for Lemmy

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Why do I get this message, what is this authorisation needed for? (i.imgur.com)
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[–] c1177johuk@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just an assumption, but maybe to discover local lemmy instances hosted on your home network.

[–] sci@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

according to the github issue it only happens if memmy preloads a post that links to a local network ip. which causes memmy to ask permission to access the local network ip.

[–] genfood@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

There are non 😅