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.
This post is pretty boomerish.
Screenshots of texts from other social media are pretty boomer-ish
Submitted 1 year ago by Teppichbrand@feddit.org to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Donebrach@lemmy.world 1 year ago
andrew_s@piefed.social 1 year 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.
mysoulishome@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Copying the source can lead to doxxing, brigading, threats of violence, and other trouble
criitz@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Linking to the source seems more boomerish than screenshotting to me. Boomers don’t know how to screenshot, and it’s more cumbersome to have to go to a new site.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Here’s the correct way:
- Take a photo of your screen using a camera.
- Print that photo on paper.
- Make necessary highlights using a pen.
- Scan the paper.
- Upload here.
ViperActual@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
This is the way.
Teppichbrand@feddit.org 1 year ago
White on black, perfection
HairyHarry@lemmy.world 1 year ago
~~5. Upload the file here. ~~
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Open a new Word Document, embed the scanned image
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Print as PDF
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Upload the file here
RunningInRVA@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I swear if I get another Word document with nothing more than a screenshot pasted inside I’m going to run off a cliff. Everyday at work. Microsoft must love this.
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BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Power consumption? Takes more power to make a net connection to go to another site, and takes a LOT longer.
Teppichbrand@feddit.org 1 year ago
Just copy paste the funny/smart 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.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 year 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.