Microblog Memes

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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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[Meta] I think posting Mastodon links to toots that does not contain photos only should be allowed and encouraged here. (reddthat.com)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/microblogmemes

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It just came to my knowledge that lemmy crawler display the content of the mastodon post when you post it as a link in lemmy posts.

Which make me think about the cost savings for every server that can apply this and save the costs of serving photos.

What does the Mod here think?

Edit 1: after testing the lemmy crawler crawl Bluesky, Mastodon and Nostr, so all what I said can also be applied to other microblog services.

Edit 2: Just wanted to add that it will also enhance accessibility for users.

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[–] ReadyUser31 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for the suggestion but I'm afraid it's screenshots only. The content on this community needs to be visible without leaving it. I would encourage users to add a link to the toot in the description however - I'll add this to the rules now.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think you did not understand me, check out this post to see how it would look, as I said you don't need to leave the app to check the content.

[–] ReadyUser31 6 points 2 months ago

On the Lemmy app I'm using that doesn't display correctly.

And then also just in a browser, it's not the same as an image link.

Thank you again for the suggestion, but this community will remain images only, and you can put a link in the description. That is the only way to ensure everyone gets a consistent experience regardless of how they access Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I'm not on your instance but I agree with this 100% and if people start posting more raw fediverse links hopefully app support will improve too.