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  • No problem. A trick you might find handy is that you can upload an image to this site by putting the image in the body of the post temporarily (first you’ll have to download it, of course). Once you’ve uploaded it into the post body you can grab the image URL (now on aussie.zone) from there to put in the ‘Thumbnail URL’ field, and then delete the image from the post body.

    Sometimes you can get problems if you try to use an image URL that’s hosted on another site, because those sites prevent ‘hotlinking’ of images a.k.a. ‘piggybacking’. Lemmy doesn’t automatically re-host external images set in ‘Thumbnail URL’, so doing it yourself with that trick above may help you avoid issues.
























  • I can’t find any documentation describing the purpose of each field, but here’s what I reckon the situation is:

    ‘URL’ and ‘Image’ are fields for the main content of a post (which is why you can only actually specify one).

    ‘Thumbnail URL’, on the other hand, is a field for providing additional data for nicely displaying the post.

    In Lemmy, the way an image specified in ‘Image’ or ‘Thumbnail URL’ is actually displayed is the same, but I suspect the two fields could be displayed differently in some other Fediverse application.