Post #2031827

2026-05-02 00:44 UTC

Ok, autistic need to understand something puzzling. This is not a sub-toot, or passive aggressive anything, just genuine confusion. Why are there so many posts that are images of text, instead of just text? Or worse, reels of an image of text? What purpose is served?

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@YouShallNotPass@chaosfem.tw 2026-05-02 00:57

@TonyaMarie@chaosfem.tw I think it's a holdover from other platforms where text was punished by the algorithm or where, as with Twitter, there wasn't sufficient length to post all the text. Plus it lets people use whatever font they want and colors and so forth. It makes things less accessible and breaks search so it isn't worth doing in my humble, but I think the above is the major reason why people continue to do it. Plus, unfortunately, it seems to do well, even on fedi.

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@meadow@lgbtqia.space 2026-05-02 01:14

@TonyaMarie@chaosfem.tw THANK YOU! That's holdover from the old Twitter days when character limits were short. It allowed people to share a complete thought in an environment not designed for it. Why people still do it today when most platforms have had generous post lengths for a decade, I have no earthly idea.

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@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org 2026-05-02 01:01

perhaps found online already as an image, then just copied and pasted. or from a website that shitty browsers (eg all mainstream browsers like firefox, chrome, safari, and edge) allow to set "disable copy and paste"

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