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its not worse but smells the same.
by rolph 3y ago
its not worse but smells the same.
- PaulHoule 3y agoPersonally I will upload an image to mastodon and post a link to the image in an online discussion if I want somebody to see the image: e.g. here's my horse https://mastodon.social/@UP8/111139332246883656 https://mastodon.social/@UP8/111139332246883656 I feel like it is fit for purpose for a quick image but I'd never post one as an story in HN. Often people post some link to 140 characters worth of pith and seem deluded that somebody is going to care. 15 years ago somebody would have posted a link to a blog, since the last 5 years it is some antiblog like Medium or LinkedIn or HackerNoon in the last year it is a link to X. It's like blogging today is a lost technology like Stonehenge or the Pyramids or something, right up there with SSRed HTML forms. At least it hasn't devolved to posting a link to a screenshot or stupid image meme yet (for some reason angry people think it is lot angrier or something to post text inside an image than to post text, if I ever get YOShInOn working as a Mastodon reader the first think I am going to do is block images where OCR finds a lot of text) X is blocking the visibility of Xes that have external links, I really think HN should "just say no" to links to X, Mastodon, Threads, etc. There is this bad idea people have you can reply to yourself to make an extended "thread" on X or some other platform but so far as I can tell it doesn't really work (people might see the thread, if they do they might see it the way you expect them to but PRO TIP they probably won't) and it's closely related to the other bad smell that people get really angry when people reply to their toots, like you ruined some masterpiece they wrote or something.