Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

Rules:

Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
Be nice.
No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

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[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Lack of link to (archived) source (per rule 4) creates a usability issue: we can't quote the text without pointless bullshit like retyping it or OCR.

Other issues when image lacks text alternative such as link

authenticability: we can't verify the authenticity of the reproduction unless we go on a fishing expedition for the source
usability: can't reflow text to varied screen sizes or vary presentation (size, contrast) or modality (audio, braille), we can't find by text content
accessibility: some users can't read this due to misleading alt text, users can't adapt the text for dyslexia or vision impairments, systems can't read the text to them or send it to braille devices
searchability: the "text" isn't indexable by search engine in a meaningful way
fault tolerance: no text fallback if image breaks.

Contrary to age & humble appearance, text is an advanced technology that provides all these capabilities absent from images.

A link to a text-based source is useful.

Edit: thanks! 👍

[–] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 4 points 2 weeks ago

Sounds good. I just edited to add a link to the source.