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.
this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2025
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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
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!
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?
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.
This is one of my main gripes with the former Twitter discussions. Its not just for more space, but it makes text content in an image unindexable and non searchable (unless expensive Ai tools are used).