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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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- Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
- Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
- You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
- Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
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this is a peeve of mine. we all have these incredibly connected mobile communicators. we all know how to copy and paste a link. if you want me to watch something, send me a link. im happy to review on my device but damn do i hate looking at anyone elses screen.
Even the person you love? Because I'll look at anything my girl wants to show me on her phone because I love her and enjoy her company. If you're talking about a stranger (which this post is not talking about) then I get it, too many strangers have shown me porn for me to trust random people when they ask to show me what's on their phone.
I'm sorry what?
You’re usually one errant tap/swipe away from your previous app, and lots of people don’t know how or don’t care enough to hide their pornucopia post-climax.
yes. in fact, especially the person ive spent > 20 years with (volume). we have a family chat server, so we share links over that instead of me looking at her phone.
Microsoft tried this, IIRC, but the one thing that's technologically possible that I desperately need is the SciFi concept of "throwing" content to another device. Like in The Expanse, where you swipe in the direction of a device, and it sends that content to that other device. Swipe toward your friend, the file gets sent. Swipe towards a TV, the content comes up on the TV. Heck, I'd have swipe toward my speakers and play music.
What would we need? Phones already have compasses and GPS, so the vector information is there. We have UPnP, for announcing services; we have geo recording servers like OwnTracks; every smart phone has gesture capability. We'd need a couple standards: adding geo information to UPnP; choosing a fucking universal sharing protocol (instead of the current dozens of niche protocols); and a little UI enhancement. We could have this, but instead we have walled gardens and no broadly supported standards. It's infuriating.
Uh, oops, I meant to scroll within this app, but instead I've just sent porn to some girl on the bus
Oops, I meant to scroll up but instead I've sent our company's sales figures to our client sitting in this meeting
This is not an engineering limitation; only an engineering problem to solve. My e-ink tablet can, and does, differentiate between three different types of swipes and taps, and it never does something I don't ask it to.
Make it a 3-finger swipe. Hell, enable a confirmation dialog if you're that uncertain about your ability to control it.
It's like being afraid of accidentally running "sudo rm -rf /”, and just as easy to prevent accidents.
The technology exists, but you can’t share content like that because of “DRM”