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.
This has been one of the great benefits of using #elkzone https://elk.zone as my web-based client, both on desktop and on mobile — it shows the whole picture without any nonsense of going into preferences and asking pretty please to show me non-mutilated pictures from the photographers who I follow.
Anyone frustrated by this behavior who would like to try a different user experience, I strongly recommend giving it a shot.
@mcdanlj Thanks for this! I'd never heard of it, and it looks great.
I feel a bit foolish but I simply cannot find that 16x9 crop box to uncheck in my appearance prerferences.
@SazeracLA This was recently changed to be a more sane default. So Mastodon servers that are up to date don't have the 16:9 cropping any more.
Pitch By default, Mastodon currently crops images in timelines to a 16:9 aspect ratio if they're taller than that; there is a setting to disable the crop completely. I propose changing the default ...
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