Yeah. Its just not a good thing to add to the base UI. If someone wants to add this to any of the many lemmy clients they can do it easily, but its a very bloated thing to do. It would probably require loading lots of external javascript every time you open a post.

That would cause every client to automatically connect to those platforms to pull data which raises privacy concerns because it leaks your IP. Externally embedded images do this too, but most people upload them to their instance.

This way it will gradually ramp up the pain tho. If they went straight to 47 days, basically the entire internet would be gone for a few days.