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c/showerthoughts · by Teppichbrand@feddit.org · 1y

Screenshots of texts from other social media are pretty boomer-ish

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.

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TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 1y (7 replies)

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.
HairyHarry@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y (1 reply)

5. Upload the file here.

  1. Open a new Word document, embed the scanned image

  2. Print as PDF

  3. Upload the file here

RunningInRVA@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y

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.

ptz@dubvee.org · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

This guy boomers lol.

I've had someone at work do that. They printed an email, highlighted and wrote in their responses, and sent it back as a .jpg.

TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 1y

That was just the sort version. There are even more convoluted ways some consider to be unnatural.

ViperActual@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Did I do this right 😂

Teppichbrand@feddit.org · 3 pts · 1y

White on black, perfection

TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 1y

🤣🤣🤣

This is the way.

BearOfaTime@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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.org · 3 pts · 1y

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_s@piefed.social · 4 pts · 1y

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.

WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y

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.

mysoulishome@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Copying the source can lead to doxxing, brigading, threats of violence, and other trouble

criitz@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 1y

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.

Donebrach@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

This post is pretty boomerish.