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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What's with this sudden tendency to pad screenshots of tweets out for about 400 miles of unnecessary white space.

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I blame the poor UI design and attention-grabbing tendencies of phone-compatible social media. Namely: Facebook and Instagram. It all goes on one endless vertical ribbon to compete for user eyeballs, and the winner consumes the maximum amount of screen real-estate possible when their turn is up. The software could provide decent margins for text-only posts to compete with images and video, or even clickable links and/or attribution for source material, but doesn't. Because screw the open web, this is our walled garden. Anyway, that's probably the reason for the massive margins: because it works better in content-hostile enviroment.