The greatest travesty to happen to the internet in the last decade was that everyone in the world who publishes any kind of written content feels the need to create a “featured" (social share) image.
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The greatest travesty to happen to the internet in the last decade was that everyone in the world who publishes any kind of written content feels the need to create a “featured" (social share) image.
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Erlend Sogge Heggenreplied to Jim Nielsen last edited by
@jimniels and every app that embeds a post with this image insists on making it HUGE.
Heck, most of my articles don’t have any image added, but my blog platform wanted me to add an account image, so now all my posts without a featured image just plasters a supersized image of my face all over that embed instead.
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Jim Nielsenreplied to Erlend Sogge Heggen last edited by
@erlend precisely. This absurd notion that every post needs an image is built into the tools which further perpetuates the idea
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Erlend Sogge Heggenreplied to Matt Fantinel last edited by
@fantinel @jimniels it can:be, but on Discord for instance I find myself manually removing the embed of shared links 90% of the time because it takes up half the screen and the image is just a massive logo.
On mastodon I don’t even have the option to opt out of embedding afaik. All I ever really want for sure is the descriptive text, I.e. the first paragraph (or bespoke description) of my article.
At the very least I’d like to ensure that my image thumbnail is always *tiny*.
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