• Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    11 months ago

    You can post photos, lemmy allows external links as images if you do it like this

    ![](https://i.imgur.com/RNbzMVW.png)

    I used imgur but you can use any site that lets you upload images and just grab the direct link to the image itself.

      • randomivysaur@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        11 months ago

        Shame lemm.ee (though it might just be a general lemmy thing) doesn’t allow external images to be linked as user profile pictures though.

        • Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          edit-2
          11 months ago

          It actually does, external images just can’t be added from lemmy-ui, in user settings they are stored as a URL so they definitely support them. You have to use the edit and resend option on DevTools or another form of API access to add a profile picture hosted elsewhere which is what I did on my lemm.ee account.

          Though for that I’d recommend hosting the images somewhere you have full control over them like Github or Codeberg, that way you can swap them out later without having to repeat the DevTools process in the future if you want to change your picture.