Community of the Android app Boost for Lemmy
When using the in-app share button to share images, a file called "image_proxy" is shared, not the image itself. This started happening for me when I switched to lemmy.zip from lemm.ee - I just tested lemmy.zip in Thunder and it works as expected, so seems to be some combination of server+Boost causing the problem.
Jerboa has same problem. Seems to be crossposts causing issues but didn't dig into it.
Often the images themselves are called image proxy as well when I download it. This indicates the filename assigned to the downloaded image mirrors the url path instead of the filename it should be, which I am going to speculate is something like "[..]/image/image_proxy.php?filename=image_name"
Upvoted because cat
Yep, I've been having the same problem for a while now. I've seen other posts about it here and there, but I'm not sure how actively boost is actually being developed...
I'm currently fixing this issue
Some clients can't handle the new lemmy feature for caching images on the instance. Hopefully its resolved soon.