Comment on Sharing a link vs posting the media
PlasticPope@lemm.ee 1 day agoI find that if its another Fediverse service like mastodon or pixelfed, that it tends to give a preview. And when clicked on it opens the respective app if you are using it.
I assume if you don’t have the app installed, it would just open a browser window inside of your lemmy client….?
Just not sure if it’s worth it for others to click on a link to see a photo or meme etc.
Oisteink@feddit.nl 1 day ago
A link isn’t interesting by itself. It can provide context or example for a post. For me lemmy is like reddit, its for discussion. If you don’t write a post but just provide a link i will ignore it or downvote as that is just spam.
fuzzy_feeling@programming.dev 1 day ago
depends on the content, as well. an article needs a link, but i like it when the important part is quoted, so i don’t have to click the link to follow the comments.
memes/images should be postet directly. no one will follow a link to a site with an image even mastodon etc. post the image and add the source. same goes for “social” media posts. post the screenshot and a link to the source, so i don’t have to go to some nazi-site to get the information.