make sure the link is valid - e.g. Google Image ones almost never are, without the second layer of indirection, so all of those I have to follow twice
type out all of the following syntax - annoying, especially on a phone’s keyboard (I don’t use an app, just native browser): 
use Preview to verify that the image actually shows
Yeah… it’s annoying, hopefully Lemmy browser support improves one day:-).
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I don’t know if any of this will help you in the slightest, but I thought I would at least try and offer!:-)
Your comment looks entirely empty to me, either viewed from my federated home instance or in its original location (but without me logged in) at https://lemmy.world/comment/9764819. I see this sometimes and always wondered what may be going on. Does it look empty to you? Any idea how it got that way - some kind of word filtering perhaps?
Oh that makes so much sense, and I didn’t even consider that. I was thinking rather that there’s no way I know of to even accomplish the submission of an empty string (perhaps in theory some kind of API call). Thank you for taking the time to answer:-).
Ugh, fine.
Jerk.
After we kill all our objects, we put them in the A.I.
Okokokokok
You’re really pushing it though bud
Somewhere out there, a venture capitalist is salivating.
If these people knew that much, they wouldn’t call it “A.I.”? :-P
I got the link to work in my picture comment, but not the markdown
In case it helps, here is how I do the markdown:
make sure the link is valid - e.g. Google Image ones almost never are, without the second layer of indirection, so all of those I have to follow twice
type out all of the following syntax - annoying, especially on a phone’s keyboard (I don’t use an app, just native browser): 
use Preview to verify that the image actually shows
Yeah… it’s annoying, hopefully Lemmy browser support improves one day:-).
 =>
I don’t know if any of this will help you in the slightest, but I thought I would at least try and offer!:-)
I love that this is becoming a troubleshooting thread. Markdown link above…Memmy generates the markdown for you, so let’s see if it works.
EDIT: seems to have worked now
We be finding.
We be replacing.
We kick trouble in the FACE!:-P
https://i.imgur.com/XSK9074.jpeg
Your comment looks entirely empty to me, either viewed from my federated home instance or in its original location (but without me logged in) at https://lemmy.world/comment/9764819. I see this sometimes and always wondered what may be going on. Does it look empty to you? Any idea how it got that way - some kind of word filtering perhaps?
It was supposed to be a picture, and yes it’s empty. I think Memmy didn’t handle the upload correctly.
Oh that makes so much sense, and I didn’t even consider that. I was thinking rather that there’s no way I know of to even accomplish the submission of an empty string (perhaps in theory some kind of API call). Thank you for taking the time to answer:-).
No problem!
Ok now do windows with no admin access and only microsoft word
Excuse me while I push this computer out of a moving vehicle doing 90 miles per hour
I always find A.I.graphy to be an interesting topic.
I fixed it in a subsequent comment