Thats entirely valid, that took me a while to figure out too lol.

If you’d like to embed an image, you will need the image address (go to the page with the full sized image, right click or long press, and copy the image URL/address, or sometimes click on the image and if it takes you to a blank page with nothing with the image, then you can copy the address from the URL bar)

And if you only wanna post one image, you’d just paste that url as the post link

If you want more than one image you’d need to embed the other images in the post description, which you would do the same was as making a link, but with an exclamation point in front. The top will embed an image, the bottom will link to a webpage

EDIT: THIS IS WRONG, IM DUMB. the second one shouldn’t have the exclamation point. No one will ever see this correction 🥲

So you’d type !,[],() without the commas, and paste the image url in (). If there’s a way to insert a link through the web ui you can also just do that, leave the link text blank, and put an exclamation point in front, which is what I do on mobile :)

I went ahead and embedded two of the images to serve as an example if you view the raw comment, and/or make it so folks can see them without leaving lemmy in case you don’t wanna bother faffing around with embedding them :)