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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Just as a note, you can do image links on Lemmy:

![](https://i.imgflip.com/7pznl8.jpg) gives

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The image is hosted on a different site. Personally I feel like a dedicated image hosting site is more likely to be around in a year than the average Lemmy instance, so I'll probably use links over direct uploads most if the time. I already have at least one post of a direct upload that no longer has the image

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The image link example in my comment specifically pulls the image from imgflip, it doesn't end up on a Lemmy instance at any point

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry, that was supposed to be in reply to this comment

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah that's my comment 😀 And as I and the other person pointed out, the image isn't on a Lemmy instance, it's coming straight from imgflip and just getting embedded in the comment

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The image is still hosted on that other site, but embedded in the comment. Possibly it gets cached by the instance, but the link to the original image remains intact.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Odd syntax. What's with the brackets?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's like a link but with an ! added to the front. Actually I think you can do alt text (ie image description for eg. screen readers) like this ![alt text](https://i.imgur.com/cYSpqUC.jpeg)

alt text

Edit: yup it works

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That makes sense, thanks :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

and what's the difference with direct upload ?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You mean the "upload image" button under the comment field next to the other formatting buttons? Or for posts?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

i use jerboa : there is an upload buntton, so as i'm dumb, i just use this one