Ancestors

Written by JP on 2025-01-26 at 20:10

pros and cons of embedding a social media post in a news story / blog post in a post "twitter turned to liquid shit" era:

• links to original "full context" post & poster (but so would )

• any edits to post are visible, for platforms that support it (but maybe unedited version is the story?)

• live-updated engagement counts

• you are trusting the platform holder to draw something on your webpage

• it is going to become an empty hole in your webpage at some point in the future

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Toot

Written by JP on 2025-01-26 at 20:20

personally i think i would probably just screenshot the post, make the a link to the original post, and provide a full transcription in the alt text. twitter created millions of holes in webpages, some of which excised what the entire focus of the news story was and memory-holing vital context. it feels bad to do if you believe (as i do) in the ideal of the web as a good faith cooperative effort where trust matters but we've been shown that trust is worthless to the corporate platforms.

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Descendants

Written by JP on 2025-01-26 at 20:21

and frankly i would do the same for any fediverse posts, because while they are generally much more likely to be deserving of trust, let's be real that server is gonna vanish sooner or later.

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Written by jwz on 2025-01-26 at 22:01

@jplebreton The only correct way to "embed" any social media post is, was, and always will be with the tag. I will die on this hill and I will take every one of you motherfuckers with me.

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