Sorry for how i acted when i saw inefficient information transmission

I’m glad I’m not the only one thinking this

Ooooh now this is interesting. My first reaction was “hah, yeah exactly!”. But then I thought: this image of text contains more information than just the textual content. For example:

• The words are someone else’s, not OP’s
• They were sourced from a different social media network to this one

Also, it may be due to the prevalence of smartphone use in interacting with Lemmy vs using a traditional computer: it’s often quicker and easier to take and share a screenshot of text than it is to select, copy and paste that text.

I’m not saying you’re wrong. I just read your comment at the time my morning coffee really hit, and it spawned an interesting chain of thoughts.

So… thank you. And sorry for inflicting this braindump.

Been there and i know a real answer to this:

Its because our interfaces are optimized for pictures and not text. I am old enough to remember you needed a plugin to see thumbnails on reddit and doing so what controversial because bandwith.

But Pictures get more clicks and we have been self optimizing its effect. Depending on view we even get all content at once because they tend to use common dimensions.

Text posts are given much less presence and making them look good in a feed is different for a oneliner, poem or deepdive.

Maybe we need to start making front covers for longer text and use vectorbased display mechanics to convert short text into efficient pictures with own background.

thumbnails also has a more button feeling driving psychological engagement.

If you sort by top you can clearly observere it.