Sorry if this has been asked before, but every time I try to create a post it seems like Lemmy will accept one or the other, not both. Yet other posts do this. What’s the process to include an image when I post a link?
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There’s only one URL field for posts, and it can either be to an image or a website.
Posts with images and links are usually to news or other websites that provide a thumbnail image. Lemmy backend will pull the link’s metadata and save the returned thumbnail image if it has one. That’s how article links with the headline image show both an image and url.
TL;DR: The thumbnail image for link posts is generated by Lemmy itself and you can’t provide both.
Put the link in the URL field and then add an image in the text field.
