Not usual for me to ask, but... A quick question.
Any way to post an image in a toot without having to upload the image into the message or copy/paste into it?
Tried <img src:" " tag and it doesn't convert to an image.
Reason for asking - hate to be re-uploading and taking space on servers with multi copies of same thing. TY.
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@design_RG If you put the raw link in the message I think it might show a sort of preview.
@freemo I did a bing search, found the docs.joinmastodon.org guides, but they do not mention any ways to post an image link directly.
Maybe something to ask for, to be added to Mastodon in future.
I hate adding another copy of a file to our server, and the many ones who will get the message. Silly waste of storage.
@freemo I wish Mastodon would support the html img tag directly.
Discouse does it well. Just posted a new thread there and bam, instant pic, hosted here at masto, no sweat.
https://discourse.qoto.org/t/is-there-such-a-thing-as-rate-my-instance/130
@freemo @design_RG tusky (an android client) does this afaik but nothing else I've tried, including web does.
@freemo Testing that...
https://discourse.qoto.org/images/discourse-logo-sketch.png
^---- is shown as a link only. Bummer.
<img src="https://discourse.qoto.org/images/discourse-logo-sketch.png">