Quick note: If you follow me, you probably noticed that I post occasional photos. Unfortunately, the default display behavior on most Mastodon instances and clients crops many images unless you click on them. I hate this, as does every other photographer here, but it's not likely to change any time soon.

You can disable this broken behavior in the Mastodon web interface by unchecking a box under display preferences.

But in any case, please be aware you might not be seeing the whole photo.

@mattblaze yall want full rez previews until some pleroma Nazi wants to post a long ass screen cap of their recent Qanon hell threads.

@joyo No one is asking for full res previews. What photographers want is the aspect ratio to be preserved when the image is downsized to preview.

It's not hard.

@mattblaze 16x9 isn't even a reasonable default for a forced crop.

Proposed rules: Original ratio as long as it's no narrower than 3x4 portrait. Any ratio landscape. The viewing user gets to decide if they want absurdly skinny vertical image previews to either crop or shrink to fit within 3x4 empty space.