this post was submitted on 06 Feb 2024
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I guess I really love everyone because I've just always done that

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Me too, but just to screw over Amazon's social graph making.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Unless of course you want them to look at something specific that the query string automatically selects for them. It'd be pretty confusing in that case if you removed the query string and they're just looking at thousands of entries in a table or something.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I change it by adding profanities

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Will the links still work? This gives me ideas

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Screenshotting a post from another fediverse app seems a bit crazy. As an alternative, this post is available natively in lemmy, as text and from the original author (so you can reply to him if you'd like).

I can't give a universal link to a post obviously, but if you're on lemmy.world, it's here: https://lemmy.world/post/11631169, and if you're not, it's available on the [email protected] community.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Neither of those links load in Voyager, so I think a screenshot is great.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

What's happened for you there isn't a problem for screenshots to really fix - it's whatever frontend you're using not giving lemmy's backend enough time to fetch a remote community. This happens loads - I even made a little video about it the other day: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/13703060

When you clicked on [email protected], it did actually go through to dbzer0, and Voyager has no trouble with the community once it's though. A little ironically perhaps, but here's a hastily combined screenshot showing it at dbzer0 and on Voyager:

edit: and the link to the post of course: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/13850191

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (4 children)

…seems a bit crazy. …

I can't give a universal link to a post obviously …

Tee-hee :) Point taken though!

No way to cross post is there?

Also would be neat to have a blended account feature - infosec.exchange is defederated from sh.itjust.works even though we’re OK I swear. Might be time to raise that discussion again.

Anyway only seeing this because of the repost. And for the visually paired (easy of seeing?) (not blind?), screenshots of text can sometimes have a je ne sais quoi. A bit of text fitting just so in the right font, maybe a light background breaking the monotony of one’s dark mode…

Screenshots, surprisingly resilient in $current_year. One day Lemmy could autotranscribe screenshots and include original post date, platform, author… maybe how deep fried it was too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (10 children)

Yeah, cross-posts would be a new post from me, rather than the original from e.g. George Takei, which isn't ideal.

I hadn't really thought about defederation between servers running both Mastodon and Lemmy. I guess that post wouldn't show up on sh.itjust.works (I'll have a look if anyone subscribes from there)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (4 children)

even on the federated web, you can't escape the screenshots

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

If you set URLCheck as a default browser and you can automate the process of making people think you love them

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Nice to see an app for it.

Android 13 and above comes with a clipboard editor which is super handy. I just edit all my links in that.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

On iOS, I use the Clean URLs iOS shortcut to cleanup links & remove tracking parameters.

Credit: mastodon.social/@DavidBlue

I want to create a version that adds a check for a YouTube link and creates a Piped.video link too - save me a few seconds each time.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

While fdroid is great for discovery or if you're running without Play Services, I'm using the Play Store anyway so I'll use that if they're on there or if not then Obtanium to get them from the source repo.

Isn't there some weirdness with signing apps on fdroid? A bit beyond my security knowledge when I last saw it discussed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah. Basically it builds and then sign the app with their own keys, not the developer's. The problem people has with this approach is that if F-Droid suffers an hacking attempt, the attackers could mess with the apps.

The team behind F-Droid is already trying to fix that with reproducible builds. It means that an APK downloaded through F-Droid could be compared to a GitHub release, for example, and they would have the same key.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago

?utm_source=my-crush

[–] [email protected] 180 points 9 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago

there's even an extension to do that automatically, clearurls if i recall correctly

[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

There are still lots of tracking parameters it doesn't remove. It does not bypass redirects like doubleclick.net/redirect?url=..., either.

I'd prefer if it worked with personal and community managed filters, like every good adblocker does now.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

jeff, you are mixing love with OCD... again

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