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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
by 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 agoFair 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 agoMaybe 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.