I saw somewhere that, instead of attaching images directly to Lemmy posts, you should instead post them to a Pixelfed instance and link to it. If a lot of people did that, it should reduce the load on Lemmy instances. I made a Pixelfed account so I could do that, but I don’t like that people have to click through to see the image. For some ridiculous reason I kinda thought the image would show without having to do that lol. Are those the only two possible options, or am I missing something?
Ohhh, I see! Still getting the hang of this federation stuff, that sounds like a good solution. I also realized I could use a direct link to the image file on Pixelfed and that does seem to show up as if it were uploaded to the post itself, I think? As opposed to the share link of the Pixelfed post that the image is in, which is what wasn’t working.