this post was submitted on 06 Feb 2024
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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.
Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.
Rules:
- Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
- Be nice.
- No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
- Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.
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- !whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
- !best_of_mastodon@sh.itjust.works
- !curatedtwitter@sh.itjust.works
- !curatedtumblr@sh.itjust.works
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Honestly I feel like a screenshot of a toot is better than just seeing a Lemmy-formated toot.
Maybe a cross-post feature which generates what the screenshot effectively shows but formatted in html to match mastodon formatting with functioning links that's hosted on the instance the Lemmy community is in to avoid federation issues?
Edit to add: on the other hand I regularly forward the screenshots to friends on other platforms, so I'd either screenshot the thing created to stop screenshots or need a share/download button to create a image because I know my friends ain't interested in clicking a wierd fediverse link to view a 2 sentence joke they may or may not find funny
We're stuck with the HTML formatting that lemmy provides us, unfortunately. It's not just about an image vs. text though - it's also about being from the original author. OP for this post is getting plenty of replies, but I've no idea if it's an issue they care about, or just something they saw and found passingly amusing.
As for sending on, a screenshot to friends on non-ActivityPub platforms is more reasonable (although being text means you could just copy/paste it, and then include any friends with vision impairments too).
But yeah, there's lots of pro's to a screenshot that I don't have an argument against (I posted in this thread, but it's not like I'm going to show up everytime someone yoinks something from Mastodon)
Oh yeah I was just imagining out loud what a better way of handling cross-posted content across federated platforms could look like