I’m sorry to post this here, this might be the wrong place so please redirect me to a more appropriate magazine.
On Reddit (LinkedIn is even worse if I’m being honest) you would constantly see screenshot of tweets but never a link to the tweet themselves.
kbin would probably save a lot of bandwidth doing this, and it’d make the experience much more pleasant for those who want to follow the object of the screenshot’s discussion.
In general I like the idea. My only suggestion as a caveat is that whenever possible we offer non-corporate alternative URLs instead of the types of sites the fediverse is trying to improve upon.
For example, post Invidious links instead of YouTube, Nitter links instead of Twitter, and just about any link you can think of instead of Google or Facebook.
I disagree with this. I’m all for federated and non-corporate alternatives but I think we should post the source and not an alternative front-end. Those that want to use exclusively those alternative front-ends have access to browser add-ons that automatically redirect them.
Maybe have a bot that posts a nitter.net equivalent as a top-level comment when someone posts a Twitter link? Hell, post a screenshot too, if you want.
why? what’s wrong with the alternative? as long as the origine of the source is clear, meaning the person behind it, I don’t see the problem. could you elaborate if you would?
