And if you want to point out a certain part, you can put it in the body of the post (even as an image if you absolutely must, but copy-pasting the text would be better)
None of what I said is a rule or anything. I was only making suggestions (I said “you can”). The comment got a few upvotes, though, so I’m not alone in thinking it’s a good way of going about things.
To be honest, I hadn’t considered the possibility of posting the screenshot as an alternative thumbnail. At the time I was suggesting putting an excerpt in the body as a means of posting an excerpt at all while still linking to the article, but you found another way to achieve that which I can see definite advantages in.
Please post a link to the article instead of only posting quotes or sections.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/28/anthony-albanese-downplays-prospect-of-imposing-sanctions-on-israel-over-gaza-ntwnfb
And if you want to point out a certain part, you can put it in the body of the post (even as an image if you absolutely must, but copy-pasting the text would be better)
I can’t find anywhere that says this is the expectation. Can you send me a link?
None of what I said is a rule or anything. I was only making suggestions (I said “you can”). The comment got a few upvotes, though, so I’m not alone in thinking it’s a good way of going about things.
To be honest, I hadn’t considered the possibility of posting the screenshot as an alternative thumbnail. At the time I was suggesting putting an excerpt in the body as a means of posting an excerpt at all while still linking to the article, but you found another way to achieve that which I can see definite advantages in.
I think a lot of people here prefer text in general, though. Recent examples of people pasting key excerpts as text in the body: https://aussie.zone/post/20764770 https://aussie.zone/post/20646025
Sorry, I thought I had included the link, turns out that it was the description of the image. Fixed now
I love that Lemmy lets you do that.
If you paste a link and then upload an image, it actually puts the URL of that image into the URL field, overwriting what you had already put there.