• interolivary@beehaw.org
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        It’s like a link but with an ! added to the front. Actually I think you can do alt text like this ![alt text](https://i.imgur.com/cYSpqUC.jpeg)

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

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      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

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        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

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        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.