I assume it has to do with code filtering out attempts to inject HTML / scripts into comments. Lemmy had a bunch of bugs that allowed hackers to inject Javascript so they turned on quite an aggressive filter.
They fucked it up completely in a way that raises questions of competence.
HTML has ways to display angle brackets specifically intended to never be interpreted as tags. “Entity names” will never be code. There’s not even a sensible way to do it deliberately, like %20 nonsense.
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I assume it has to do with code filtering out attempts to inject HTML / scripts into comments. Lemmy had a bunch of bugs that allowed hackers to inject Javascript so they turned on quite an aggressive filter.
They fucked it up completely in a way that raises questions of competence.
HTML has ways to display angle brackets specifically intended to never be interpreted as tags. “Entity names” will never be code. There’s not even a sensible way to do it deliberately, like %20 nonsense.
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Could have done it with proper encoding, don’t need to remove it lol o.O