• CookieJarObserver
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    1 year ago

    Because its better for the lemmy Servers storage, also lemmy hosted pictures often have federation issues, when a image is hosted somewhere else it only needs to federate a text.

    • Sticker@lemy.nlOP
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      1 year ago

      It turns out that the image inserted by the link will be correctly displayed on other instances and Lemmy clients (as opposed to uploading the image directly to your own instance).

      Thanks for the explanation.