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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Apparently in Lemmy you can't post a URL and an image 🤷.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Yea it's one or the other, so that it federates nicely

What I do is link the URL in the main post (to get a thumbnail, and because that's what people expect), and the image in the post body. You can insert it like this

![alt text](image URL)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ah I see it's just Lemmy failing to get the thumbnail that I was trying to fix. I guess it's just something in Lemmy's code.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh that is odd, and it might be related to your instance because the thumbnail is showing up on lemmy.ca

Here is the post on each instance:

https://lemmy.kde.social/post/1042817

https://lemmy.ca/post/18414522

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah, looks to be an instance specific bug I guess. Hopefully it can get addressed soon. I think the thumbnail helps with drawing people's attention to posts.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

You can use the text field to drop an image link.