I mean to be fair you could just show the Screenshot and then link the image to the tweet (or whatever it is called now…). Best of both worlds (but more work)
Comment on Why do new sites embed tweets?
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
It’s been common practice for well over decade now…
Embedded content lets you click on it to follow the tweet chain and see more info. A screenshot only shows exactly what the author decides to show you and nothing more.
Content disappearing or twitter walling itself off hasn’t been an issue until twatwaffle took over.
berkeleyblue@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Exactly. Also, screenshots can easily be doctored. An embedded tweet could not be, since you could easily click the link to see the original tweet.
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 6 months ago
So a screen shot linking to the original tweet, then?
scytale@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Or they can do both. Post a screenshot and link the tweet below it so users have the option to click to the source. I don’t explicitly block twitter but it’s so bad that more often than not the embedded tweet doesn’t display when viewing the page with uBO.
Jajcus@kbin.social 6 months ago
'doctoring' can go both ways. Embedding gives more 'doctoring power' to original poster and X.
otter@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Sounds like we need a single click “archive.org + embed” solution.
It would also freeze the content as is