2y ago

Why can't I post images?

Every time I try to upload an image to Lemmy, an error occurs. Any ideas?

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you can use external hosting and then embed with ! [ alt_text ] ( website_link ) <--- no spaces
example:
People abused the feature for obscenely alarming purposes so it's temporarily shut down.
- Thanks. This is why we can’t have nice things.
  Edit: Sorry the mods have to look at that stuff.
  
  That's alright. You can still at least put images in comments by posting ! and then [image text] and then (image link) as an HTML thing, but it will always be from another website.
  For example, if you do that and put the link at https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/02252a0d-838a-4bf3-9bb2-aac3bd34a0bb/detlo4f-73e86dea-8056-4437-9b99-a33662b417bb.png/v1/fill/w_867,h_720,q_80,strp/haaaaaand_by_fuzzy_mutant_detlo4f-fullview.jpg?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwiaXNzIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsIm9iaiI6W1t7ImhlaWdodCI6Ijw9NzIwIiwicGF0aCI6IlwvZlwvMDIyNTJhMGQtODM4YS00YmYzLTliYjItYWFjM2JkMzRhMGJiXC9kZXRsbzRmLTczZTg2ZGVhLTgwNTYtNDQzNy05Yjk5LWEzMzY2MmI0MTdiYi5wbmciLCJ3aWR0aCI6Ijw9ODY3In1dXSwiYXVkIjpbInVybjpzZXJ2aWNlOmltYWdlLm9wZXJhdGlvbnMiXX0.p7BMYRt5v-i2pC7Kmzb17mf-T9zUW7eO1N1itJ9kujg into the "image link" part, you get the following image...
  This is how it would look if I was saying "talk to the hand".
I've found that I can't post images from a front-end, but I can if I do it directly on the instance from the browser.
Your image might be too large, some instances have size restrictions.

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