Do you repost content from other social platforms to the fediverse? e.g. reddit, instagram, etc? Do you link or use a screenshot?
(I'm not as thoughtful as @evan so don't come at me about poll question design).
#polls #fediverse #socialmedia
@maj i have the same policy about social media as i do about any site: i wont link it if the content can’t be viewed in full someone who does not have an account. if it’s going to cut the reader off one paragraph in with an enter your email/disable your adblocker/pay us money to see the rest then i’ll either screenshot or link to a 3rd party mirror of the content (eg archive.is ) or decide its just not worth mentioning at all
in practice this means that i dont link to many social media sites directly though
@Satsuma That's a good policy!
Insta, Reddit, and tumblr are ok about inbound links
X let's you see the post but you can't view comments or navigate elsewhere
Blue sky it seems to depend on the account?
For paywall I usually wait for a gift link or archive URL.
@maj bizarrely tumblr is only ok about inbound links if the format is blogname.tumblr.com instead of tumblr.com/blogname and newer blog may not have a subdomain set up so it does occasionally get excised from direct linking (originally it was the only way tumblr offered blogs, and then they offered both for all blogs and now they only offer the /blogname unless you flip some settings)
really wish more sites would be chill about just letting you read the thing but, alas
@Satsuma TIL.
Making it hard to link in just encourages folks to screenshot which you think they don't like.
Doesn't insta do some passive aggressive shit in a popup if you screenshot it? Or maybe it's reddit mobile app...