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[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Link to the actual post OP screenshotted: https://very.bignutty.xyz/notes/9hf13it1ced3b2za

Screenshots of text are not the way. The crappy “hey, a text thing I want to share, let me take an accessibility-poisoning screenshot and upload that graphic file like a psychopath instead of just copy/pasting either the link to the text or the text itself like a decent human being” routine needs to die with Reddit, we have to be better than that here.

[–] TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

At the least, put the screenshot and the link in the post. We can do both, people.

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Screenshots of text preserve the state of the text at the time it was seen...

Yes, it's not good for accessibility but it's a good way to quickly capture a moment in time.

(I would recommend perhaps also copy/pasting a synopsis for people who might be vision impaired etc)

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

So copy/paste the text for your snapshot, and link to the original.

[–] BarterClub@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 years ago

I did share it. It's in the comments.

[–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net -1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Screenshots stay with time, I hate it when I arrive a bit later and the link is already dead and I have no idea what it said.

[–] Cyyy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

..except when the image hoster suddenly dies and 10000s of Screenshots suddenly vanish from the internet and all howto's etc are killed by it

[–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's why you shouldn't use external image hosters but embed the picture the normal way. Then if the lemmy instance dies then the screenshot dies with it but not seperatelly.

[–] Cyyy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

well, often webprojects don't have that much money and hosting communitys who post a lot of images, videos etc. costs a lot of money. because that a lot of users use imagehosters to bypass this issue.

[–] hypelightfly@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Copy/pasted text stays with time too and doesn't have the issues that pictures of text do. Also hosted images disappear all the time.

[–] ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

If you can post an image, you can post text, right?