YSK embed an image into your comments here when the image is externally hosted

j4k3@lemmy.world to You Should Know@lemmy.world – 154 points –

Why YSK: You don't need to load down the instance by uploading the image to the instance. You only need to know the syntax is on the following line:

![image](imageURL)

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maybe kbin is too young to be able to do what you're describing? I'll put a screenshot of what I can see (desktop for kbin.social)
screenshot https://imgur.com/a/g3dJUyy

(btw will you type exactly the command you put, maybe with the code `` option)?

Lol. I'm on Graphene OS so all the imgur trackers are blocked and I can't see anything from them.

FYI this website has the simple functionality imgur used to have before they started all the trackerware nonsense:

https://postimages.org/

This is the documentation link that has all the syntax for posting pics in comments and more:

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/users/02-media.html

Alright so I went on lemmy cuz I'm using both xD and I can finally see what you meant in your earlier comment. You said do
![image](__image_url__) right? eg. ![image](https://imgur.com/a/g3dJUyy)
image

and I'll give postimages a go :) I just used imgur since I knew about it

from what i understand, this is syntax implemented on lemmy. it's not from the deeper ActivtyPub protocol all of these things are implementing. If that's true, it won't render on kbin how it does on lemmy.

yeah I think you're right. I went on lemmy and it looked a little different haha

seems to work fine on viewing the image embedded on kbin for me.. it doesnt expand automatically (u gotta click a little expand button to show it) but that may be a setting only somewhere on the site