I am quite a data hoarder, but I take so many screenshots that I’ll probably never look at again, and it occurred to me that this might be my generation’s “printing emails” thing.
Yeah, no. Some text services and websites can/do remove content, so you might not be able to return to something at a later date without saving it locally. Once an email has been received on your end, that’s it: you have the email locally (or at least in your email provider); it can no longer be removed by the person that sent it.
If I screenshot an exchange on Bluesky where someone is saying wildly racist shit, they can later block me, delete the top-level comment and all the sub-comments, but I’ll still have that digital proof. If someone gets doxxed on Reddit and you screenshot it, you’ve got that forever, even when Reddit deletes the doxxing five minutes later. (They did that with someone that found out who Administrative Results was, and posted all the links backing up their claims. Also, Admin Results in a shitty person, and that’s why he and Garand Thumb/Mike Jones get along so we…)
Widdershins@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Sometimes I screenshot and crop a picture I want to save if there is no alternative to saving it as a .webp
redfox@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I have done that more times then I count or when I website won't let me download something.
bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
There are web browser addons which can change the export to a png, but if all else fails, imagemagick after saving the image takes less time than screenshotting and cropping.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
When pixel count doesn’t matter, that’s probably the easiest way to do it.