Ooh! #242sighting.
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OK, so, I agree with some of the commenters that doing this is excellent guerrilla marketing for the Fediverse. Especially if you include a distinctive username@domain handle in the screenshot. Be cool -- don't say "this is the kind of great content we have on the Fediverse, join now!!!" Just be cool.
I agree with other commenters, though, that there are hazards. People might not be performing for the public. Holding someone up to ridicule ("look at this idiot on the Fediverse!") so they can get dragged on a platform where they can't even respond sucks.
But good content from some of our public thinkers, jokesters and aphorisers? I say go for it. Yes, but.
@evan I read that not as "should you share content from the fediverse" but as "how should you share content from the fediverse", especially since fediverse software generally has good to excellent embeds (a thing commercial platforms do not), and those are strictly better than screenshots in every way. So it`s a "no, (prefer embeds) but (if the target wont display them screenshots work)"
