WoodGrainTerrain ( @xXxOxhamxXx@beehaw.org ) 11•2 years agoCan’t wait for Oliver’s take on this! Spez is going to be roasted.
BlueLineBae ( @BlueLineBae@midwest.social ) 9•2 years agoReddit is forcing mods to open subs back up. So to continue protesting, individual redditors are just shit posting to make their subs effectively useless. Some subs are getting really creative with it too. r/steam is posting about literal steam and r/interestingasfuck has opened posts up to pornographic content. It’s rather amusing.
Royalish ( @Royalish@lemmy.ml ) 5•2 years agoAnarchy in the Redd-it!
SatyrSack ( @SatyrSack@lemmy.one ) 2•2 years agoSure, it makes sense to post steam to the Steam sub, fucking to the fucking sub, etc. but why Jon?
BlueLineBae ( @BlueLineBae@midwest.social ) 3•2 years agoIt’s more about making the sub useless than it is about making sense. So only posting pics of sexy John Oliver devalues the purpose of a subreddit… Unless that’s what people want from now on.
SatyrSack ( @SatyrSack@lemmy.one ) 1•2 years agoYou could also post nothing but pictures of turnips, or windmills, or firehoses. Out of everything that is off-topic, I still don’t get why they chose Jon as the off-topic focus.
interolivary ( @interolivary@beehaw.org ) 9•2 years agoJust as a note, you can do image links on Lemmy:

gives SmokeInFog ( @SmokeInFog@midwest.social ) 3•2 years agoThe image is hosted on a different site. Personally I feel like a dedicated image hosting site is more likely to be around in a year than the average Lemmy instance, so I’ll probably use links over direct uploads most if the time. I already have at least one post of a direct upload that no longer has the image
interolivary ( @interolivary@beehaw.org ) 3•2 years agoThe image link example in my comment specifically pulls the image from imgflip, it doesn’t end up on a Lemmy instance at any point
SmokeInFog ( @SmokeInFog@midwest.social ) 2•2 years agoSorry, that was supposed to be in reply to this comment. This is the second time Jerboa has done this to me
interolivary ( @interolivary@beehaw.org ) 2•2 years agoYeah that’s my comment 😀 And as I and the other person pointed out, the image isn’t on a Lemmy instance, it’s coming straight from imgflip and just getting embedded in the comment
ActuallyRuben ( @ActuallyRuben@actuallyruben.nl ) 1•2 years agoThe image is still hosted on that other site, but embedded in the comment. Possibly it gets cached by the instance, but the link to the original image remains intact.
nlm ( @nlm@beehaw.org ) 3•2 years agoOdd syntax. What’s with the brackets?
interolivary ( @interolivary@beehaw.org ) 7•2 years agoIt’s like a link but with an
!
added to the front. Actually I think you can do alt text (ie image description for eg. screen readers) like this
Edit: yup it works
nlm ( @nlm@beehaw.org ) 2•2 years agoThat makes sense, thanks :)
collegefurtrader ( @collegefurtrader@discuss.tchncs.de ) 3•2 years agoJon Oliver has a current events daily TV show
Track_Shovel ( @Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ) 1•2 years agoYeah but why him of all people
collegefurtrader ( @collegefurtrader@discuss.tchncs.de ) 4•2 years agobecause the expectation is that he will talk about it on television
LoamImprovement ( @LoamImprovement@beehaw.org ) 4•2 years agoYou say it like it’s a bad thing
lemillionsocks ( @lemillionsocks@beehaw.org ) 2•2 years agoWhat’s her problem?
Whimseymimple ( @Whimseymimple@beehaw.org ) 2•2 years agoVery Being John Malkovichian…