Lori Emersonfinally, Wendell Berry's standards for technological innovation--truly as relevant now as they were in 1987 #othernetworks
Aaro Koskinen@loriemerson 10. Never post an image/screenshot if you can type the same in plain text.
Richard Rathe"Never post an image/screenshot if you can type the same in plain text."
For a simple list like the above. I agree.
I suspect that there is a "plain text penalty" for words/ideas without imagery in social media, but I'm not up on the trends, rules, or research in that domain.
lxskllr@nickrauchen @aakoskin @loriemerson
Might run out of characters. Default mastodon limit is 500. I've done text images to get around the limit.
@lxskllr @aakoskin @loriemerson
I think the char limit varies on #Mastodon depending on server, client, etc.
Something textual that is "long form" can be threaded, yes?
WesDym@nickrauchen Yeah, but that's extra work that too many people don't want to do. Cory Doctorow does it very well, but he's willing to do the work.
I agree completely about Cory. He outlined his social publishing strategy/experiments in a post I've lost track of. It had the "write-once, publish-everywhere" vibe. Very impressive. Also web-standards, no trackers, etc. 🙂 👍
I mostly resist the temptation to screen shot and re-post from other sources. And when a news item is about actual research, I try to find/include a link to the original paper when possible.
If I read something about "researchers discover XYZ..." and they don't at least give the lead author and journal, I pass it by--no likes, no links. 🚯
@nickrauchen It annoys me more than a little that I can't share most orginal sources without that original source automatically providing a (usually pointless) image.
I fear greatly that our addiction to images is fundamentally childish, and that this trend of infantilization is bad for ALL of us in the long run. I find it harder and harder to have serious and thoughtful adult conversations, and impossible to spend any amount of time online without encountering needless immaturity.