• Beep@lemmus.org
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      1 month ago

      That is what links are for.

      Just attach a link to the post and boom. More efficient way of indicating the source.

      • Lena@gregtech.eu
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        Why don’t you consider links advertisements? And attributing only in this way leads to people downloading the images and sharing them carelessly, without crediting the artist.

        • Beep@lemmus.org
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          1 month ago

          Ad is something you are forced to see. Hyperlink to author website are just a refrance which is not forced on you.

          That is the difference which make one of them acceptable and the other not.

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        Links get lost when someone saves the image, metadata gets lost when someone screenshots the image and often isn’t preserved by the host anyway.