Really? I thought that you might be among the first.

Careful, you might get banned from PieFed.

It only becomes an image to me when outside of a code/preformatted block. Inside of one, it contains the raw markdown verbatim: <code class="hljs">!<span class="hljs-selector-attr">[alt]</span>(url)</code>.

I think that it’s the backend that screws the “url” up. Everything looks good in the preview, but the “url” part disappears upon publishing.

Looks like it’s using markdown-it, a Rust port of a JavaScript library with the same name.

It looks unmaintained. Last commit is from 2 years ago and issues look inactive. (including one asking asking about the maintenance status)

But it shouldn’t do that when enclosed in a code/preformatted block?

Nice alt text, very concise!

The syntax for images in markdown is .

Edit: Feels ridiculous to have to use a real image for this. Lemmy really seems to dislike image-like formatting in code blocks.

A hall of fame I kind of want to be in. Perhaps I should take up posting.

P.S. I noticed that your image is missing alt text. Something like “Long list of users who allegedly harass Rimu” would probably fit.

Which one?

I meant the satellite part.

Can you really surveil a large enough area accurtely enough for it to work?

-stipation

But that would be communist!

Don’t you know that a society can’t be truly free unless the ones with power have the freedom to oppress those who don’t?

No problem, happy to help!

I’m not sure how or if Piefed’s UI shows it, but posts are written in Markdown.

When you add an image, text gets added to your post or comment in the following format: ![alt text](image url). So, in your post the “image” is just the string ![bTUDGZRAcKZdXyO.png](https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.piefed.zip%2Fposts%2FbT%2FUD%2FbTUDGZRAcKZdXyO.png), which clients (Lemmy’s & Piefed’s web UI and applications) replace with the actual image.

So, if your post/comment editor has an option with something like “source”, “plain text” or “Markdown” in the name, you can enter a description for the image in the brackets right after the exclamation mark.

Fixed image example: ![Unfinished Projects - In solidarity we can build a future that benefits us all.](https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.piefed.zip%2Fposts%2FbT%2FUD%2FbTUDGZRAcKZdXyO.png)

The alt text is used by things like screen readers, and even normal browsers, if the image fails to load. So, something like the following might be better:

Logo of Unfinished Projects, with the tagline “In solidarity we can build a future that benefits us all”

If anything is still unclear, I’m happy to answer any questions you may have.

Edit: Lemmy keeps “fixing” “https://media.piefed.zip/posts/bT/UD/bTUDGZRAcKZdXyO.png” to a proxied url for some reason. If you copy the Markdown from this comment, please fix it on your end, as I can’t seem to on mine.

A small nitpick, but could you do something about the image alt text in your post? A filename, especially a non descriptive one, is not exactly great for accessibility.

I’ve been pretty happy with OCR.

being scrapped by bots.

I think you might have meant "scraped’. I don’t think that AI companies would throw away valuable training data without a goo reason.

But, but! You can change the system people from within by voting!