This week I’d like to highlight a very cool development: the automatic crash reporting facility in the Plasma 6 version of our venerable DrKonqi crash report wizard. Automatic reporting is op…
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
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.
Apparently in Lemmy you can’t post a URL and an image 🤷.
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)
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.
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
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.
You can use the text field to drop an image link.