cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/30790048
this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2025
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There's ALT text.
Not in the OP. For primarily text content, images of them are pretty pointless: there are links to source, quotes, etc.
https://types.pl/@132ikl/110046096762768819
That's pretty good: could that go in the OP body or is editing not possible?
Would be cool, if we could cross-post Mastodon posts...
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Like this?
If only there was a way to copy text, and then paste it someplace else. Sigh... unsolved problems.
Yeah, really unfortunate that that's not possible. Always having to take a screenshot and then type out letter by letter what's on the screenshot, that can be quite annoying.
But even if copying text was possible, the reason people post pictures of text is to give proper attribution, but also to distance themselves from the content, so that it's clear that they don't necessarily hold the exact same opinion or that they might not have all the knowledge to defend the statements in the post.
Cross-posting could fill that same roll without screenshotting text.
If only we had some way to reference an original source. Something like a figurative link, if you will.
That would be cool, but human brains are weirdos. If you're already copying text, you could've edited or annotated it, for example. For example, if it's an opinion you don't entirely agree with, you might feel obliged to say so, because you have the ability to do so when it's a text post.
If you want to call that irrational, I'm not arguing against that. I'm just saying it's the reality we live in and I'd like to have tooling to deal with that better, because I would also prefer text to not be screenshotted.
Truer words were never said. :)