This is a bit of an experiment. Someone was asking me to post in a different way and I was not wild about it but im sorta wondering how a link directly the the comic image itself will come up.
This is a bit of an experiment. Someone was asking me to post in a different way and I was not wild about it but im sorta wondering how a link directly the the comic image itself will come up.
You can do whatever you want.
I suppose if you are saying that you will only ever do one or the other, then I would agree with you then that the link is the more valuable of the two.
Though personally I do feel that there is value also in showing the preview immediately without having to first click - like a Rick Roll scenario, the recipient doesn’t know yet whether they want to follow down that rabbit hole.
But I would most definitely not have used all this many words on my own initiative, I’m just trying to answer your question: personally, I choose to do both, in situations where it is not my OC but I want to share in the most appropriate manner possible. In an ideal world the software itself could show the image and the attribution both just by giving it the URL, but Lemmy it seems is not that advanced (although PieFed will do so, even for YouTube videos it shows them in an embedded player:-D, so there is hope for the future event if not much for today:-). And then for both I suppose the rules differ for posts vs. comments.