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 
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
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
Just as a note, you can do image links on Lemmy:
givesOdd syntax. What’s with the brackets?
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 thisEdit: yup it works
That makes sense, thanks :)
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
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
Sorry, that was supposed to be in reply to this comment
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
and what’s the difference with direct upload ?
You mean the “upload image” button under the comment field next to the other formatting buttons? Or for posts?