• vegetvs@kbin.earth
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    3 months ago

    Obviously. Think of all crap being shared on social media these days. People don’t even share texts anymore, they take a much more expensive, less readable screenshot and send over.

    • jherazob@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      2 months ago

      This is specially annoying when troubleshooting, “please give me the error message you’re getting” and they reply with a screenshot of it i cannot copy/paste

      • vegetvs@kbin.earth
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        2 months ago

        Absolutely, don’t even get me started on that. Or when you’re reading a light-themed web app and all of a sudden there’s a dark-themed screenshot of some random text in the middle. So annoying!

    • dumblederp@aussie.zone
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      2 months ago

      I find the whole screen shot of a catchy sentence from twatter as a post with a clickbait headline pretty frustrating too. The title of the post could easily be the content as plain text. How much are a few billion meme reposts of screenshots of text costing the planet? How much data is wasted sending pictures of plain text around the world?

      • vegetvs@kbin.earth
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        2 months ago

        My thoughts exactly. I believe most services that enable sharing this kind of media should default to having content expiring after a sensible TTL. I’m pretty positive that alone would save us from 80% of such useless data.