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The persistence of a screenshot (or any image) depends entirely on the hosting platform, though. How many image hosts have gone down over the years, leaving nic

by Arrath 5y ago

The persistence of a screenshot (or any image) depends entirely on the hosting platform, though. How many image hosts have gone down over the years, leaving niche forums with broken image links in the middle of otherwise very useful posts? Is there any guarantee that even reddit will keep around image posts uploaded to its own servers, forever?

willis936 5y ago
Person-to-person means not hosted by anyone. Sending a png screenshot over sms or imessage or signal, etc. means the image is bytes on a personal device. How the other person manages their data is their own business.
- Arrath 5y ago
  Fair point, I could have sworn your comment didn't say person-to-person when I first replied. I'll give you that point. Personally, I still prefer links as I find them easier to sort and categorize in my bookmark library, or indeed take screenshots of the linked content if I deem it worth of it. As it is with images, I don't really bother to sort them so I have them scattered all over. In the folder where my SMS app saves images, in the folder where whatsapp saves images, in the case of discord I rarely explicitly download and save the images outside the app, etc. Opening a link I receive opens the link in one program, my default browser, from where I can manage the link as I see fit. All these different apps have their own built in image viewers, save locations, or layers between the message and the content/image, making it much more of a hassle to manage that image as compared to a plain link.
  - numpad0 5y ago
    Maybe this can be generational: people of my generation and up used to think that MD5 hash distinguish two pieces of information, kids these days can’t tell between texts and a screenshot of said text. Which isn’t fundamentally an issue I guess, maybe the whole concept of document files and file-systems are just quirks that are slowly moving towards obsolescence.

by Arrath 5y ago

willis936 5y ago

Person-to-person means not hosted by anyone. Sending a png screenshot over sms or imessage or signal, etc. means the image is bytes on a personal device. How the other person manages their data is their own business.

Arrath 5y ago
Fair point, I could have sworn your comment didn't say person-to-person when I first replied. I'll give you that point. Personally, I still prefer links as I find them easier to sort and categorize in my bookmark library, or indeed take screenshots of the linked content if I deem it worth of it. As it is with images, I don't really bother to sort them so I have them scattered all over. In the folder where my SMS app saves images, in the folder where whatsapp saves images, in the case of discord I rarely explicitly download and save the images outside the app, etc. Opening a link I receive opens the link in one program, my default browser, from where I can manage the link as I see fit. All these different apps have their own built in image viewers, save locations, or layers between the message and the content/image, making it much more of a hassle to manage that image as compared to a plain link.
- numpad0 5y ago
  Maybe this can be generational: people of my generation and up used to think that MD5 hash distinguish two pieces of information, kids these days can’t tell between texts and a screenshot of said text. Which isn’t fundamentally an issue I guess, maybe the whole concept of document files and file-systems are just quirks that are slowly moving towards obsolescence.