Keep posting them, but we should just copy the text and link to the source instead of screenshooting a couple of sentences like my mom, no? This would save some disk space and power consumption as well.

  • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip
    15·
    6 days ago

    Here’s the correct way:

    1. Take a photo of your screen with a camera.
    2. Have the film developed or print that photo if you have a digital camera.
    3. Make necessary highlights with a pen.
    4. Scan the paper.
    5. Upload the file here.
  • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    4 days ago

    I think a hybrid approach is better, have a screenshot and a link to the source too. with a screenshot of a post on a whatever site I don’t not to figure out which privacy frontend is working right now every single time.

  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
    6·
    6 days ago

    Power consumption? Takes more power to make a net connection to go to another site, and takes a LOT longer.

    Plus, following links drives traffic and provides even more tracking.

    • Teppichbrand@feddit.orgOP
      3·
      6 days ago

      Just copy paste the smartfunny words. 99% of the time I’m not interested in the nickname of the person nor their avatar, so you source-link only because it’s nice. :)

  • Andrew@piefed.socialEnglish
    4·
    5 days ago

    Maybe, but image posts drive more engagement than text ones. You can see on !lowqualityfacts@lemmy.zip that the text posts, which are no worse LQFs than any other ones IMO, score noticeably lower.

    I like sites / Lemmy frontends that provide some kind of ‘teaser’ for text posts (they also show a bit of the post’s body in the main feed), meaning you can often see both the feed line and the punchline for a post without going into it (it works well for ‘dad jokes’ for example). But the default frontend - lemmy-ui - doesn’t do that, so it hobbles the potential of text posts.