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screenshots are an outrageously load-bearing part of modern internet infrastructure currently the best way to port posts between sites even though it makes their text unsearchable and doesn’t generate a link back to original this is dumb and we should be able to do better

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@visakanv

· Mar 28, 2021

well i'm bringing it back to twitter

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4:14 AM · Apr 14, 2021Twitter for iPad

QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

Apr 14, 2021

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every social media site should be able to QT content from every other social media site. the demonstrated demand for this feature is gigantic

QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

Apr 14, 2021

maybe we should be thinking about posts as objects that exist independent of particular sites (i stole this idea from someone and i forgot who although it is sort of implicit in the mother of all demos) and sites as embodying choices for how to display and interact with posts

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this will break the camels back we need a new camel anyway

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you are completely correct but it's kinda beautiful how we exapted the most low-tech feature there is into a flexible and essential piece of infrastructure at internet scale

QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

Apr 14, 2021

it is neat how flexible screenshots are! searchability tho,,,

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Hmm no, it's actually really cool imo because will apps can prevent you from copying text and sharing stuff, nothing will ever prevent you from taking screenshots. I think what we need is better OCR. You can already search for text in e.g. google photos.