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2025-04-04 00:06:24

neo@social.hacktheplanet.be

A bit of an annoying trend I’ve started to notice here on #Mastodon and the #Fediverse lately is people posting pictures of text with content I’m not really interested in to see or read. But due to it being a picture and not parsable text, content filters don’t apply. Why would one deliberately go through this trouble, reducing (self) #moderation effectiveness and waste a bunch of extra bytes in the process?

2025-04-04 08:33:20

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@Michael Smith (Neo) Convenience.

Just about everyone in the Fediverse is on a phone nowadays with the exception of some Friendica and Hubzilla veterans. And the easiest way of sharing e.g. social media content on a phone is by taking a screenshot and plastering it into an otherwise empty toot in their Mastodon app. Way easier and more convenient than copy-pasting the text itself plus a link to the original into the toot. Way easier and more convenient even than only copy-pasting the link. And a great deal easier and more convenient than re-writing the whole text and the link, especially since Bluetooth keyboards for phones are a thing of the past, as are apparently hardware input devices other than touch screens in general.

I guess 99% of all phone users don't even know they can copy-paste on a phone, and many have never heard of copy-paste in their lives. Even those who do know that they can copy-paste find marking text to copy on a tiny touch screen too fidgety.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta