crop

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crop is a common geometric subtraction action taken on photos or images on the IndieWeb when including them in constrained contexts such as a square icon in a facepile or reply-context, or the photo in a photo reply, and also something silos automatically do in photo or multiphoto posts when displayed in-stream which can have unintended results.

IndieWeb Examples

Examples of IndieWeb sites which crop images from other sites when displaying them in various contexts.

... need examples ...

Software

WordPress

There is a WordPress plugin (? which one ? David Shanske) that automatically crops external images in some use-cases (which ones ? David Shanske).

Challenges

Miscommunication from cropped text

Auto-cropping photos, especially with photos with text, can result in unintended messages and miscommunication.

Facebook miscrops of photos

Multiphoto post examples:

https://twitter.com/angrypiln/status/1287338388127911936
That moment of horror when Facebook crops your logo.
https://twitter.com/scary_clarey/status/1287467931840978945
Look what Facebook did to the late great Jack Bruce!

Brainstorming

One cropping technique is to use CSS, e.g. object-fit:cover; https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/object-fit