True, although I sort of feel like that ship has sailed. Folks are used to multimedia content and expect it, and while it's true that it can be abused, it tends to enhance the conversation rather than harm it, in my experience.
The hosting question is non-trivial, but Mastodon gives me hope that smart architecture can help a lot: we don't necessarily require every image to be copied permanently to every server.
So we'll see. I think I like the idea of first-class embedded media than you do from a UX perspective, but it's definitely a topic to examine carefully.
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True, although I sort of feel like that ship has sailed. Folks are used to multimedia content and expect it, and while it's true that it can be abused, it tends to enhance the conversation rather than harm it, in my experience.
The hosting question is non-trivial, but Mastodon gives me hope that smart architecture can help a lot: we don't necessarily require every image to be copied permanently to every server.
So we'll see. I think I like the idea of first-class embedded media than you do from a UX perspective, but it's definitely a topic to examine carefully.