• lemmyingly@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    What happens when you share a link to an image? Does Lemmy just save the link or does it make a copy of the image?

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      8 months ago

      The link. It only saves the image if you upload it directly, since converting it to a link, and embedding the link is how Lemmy handles image uploads.