According to the docs, there should be a lemmy-ui folder that was created by the Ansible install. Within that folder, the app is set up to search for an extra_themes folder by default.

For native installation (without Docker), themes are loaded by lemmy-ui from ./extra_themes folder. A different path can be specified with LEMMY_UI_EXTRA_THEMES_FOLDER environment variable.

Digging into the docker-compose.yml file used by the Ansible playbook, it looks like this is where extra themes directory is mapped into the lemmy-ui service.

Does this basically come down to “Twitter doesn’t want to spend the compute to fingerprint media uploads?”

I know that’s been a massive cost sink for YouTube with their Content ID technology, and I don’t imagine Elbow is in a hurry to burn even more money at the moment.

Can’t wait to try this during tax season next year