Matt BlazeMay 17, 2023

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.

Show threadMatt BlazeMay 20, 2023
Note that this setting may or may not change whether images are cropped on mobile clients - it depends on the particular client.
Show threadMatt BlazeJun 18, 2023
I will continue to criticize this stupid default image cropping behavior until I've blocked every single asshole who uses it as an opportunity to tell me to go back to Twitter.
Show threadGlyphJun 18, 2023
@mattblaze did twitter eventually fix their own asinine cropping rules? I do not remember this situation being better over there
Show threadMatt BlazeJun 18, 2023
@glyph I don’t think they ever did. But the people yelling at me don’t like that I’m “disrespectful” of the “way things are done here”.
Show threadÖlbaum
@mattblaze @glyph Also, probably with Twitter, everyone was using a third party client, because both the official app and the web site sucked, and those might have had better cropping behaviour.
Jun 18, 2023 at 12:18pmWeb