Call me autistic, but does this need to be an image? It uses like 10 000 bytes to say what 100 bytes would say in text. :P
this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2025
318 points (97.6% liked)
Autism
8020 readers
477 users here now
A community for respectful discussion and memes related to autism acceptance. All neurotypes are welcome.
Community:
Values
- Acceptance
- Openness
- Understanding
- Equality
- Reciprocity
- Mutuality
- Love
Rules
- No abusive, derogatory, or offensive post/comments e.g: racism, sexism, religious hatred, homophobia, gatekeeping, trolling.
- Posts must be related to autism, off-topic discussions happen in the matrix chat.
- Your posts must include a text body. It doesn't have to be long, it just needs to be descriptive.
- Do not request donations.
- Be respectful in discussions.
- Do not post misinformation.
- Mark NSFW content accordingly.
- Do not promote Autism Speaks.
- General Lemmy World rules.
Encouraged
- Open acceptance of all autism levels as a respectable neurotype.
- Funny memes.
- Respectful venting.
- Describe posts of pictures/memes using text in the body for our visually impaired users.
- Welcoming and accepting attitudes.
- Questions regarding autism.
- Questions on confusing situations.
- Seeking and sharing support.
- Engagement in our community's values.
- Expressing a difference of opinion without directly insulting another user.
- Please report questionable posts and let the mods deal with it. Chat Room
- We have a chat room! Want to engage in dialogue? Come join us at the community's Matrix Chat.
.
Helpful Resources
- Are you seeking education, support groups, and more? Take a look at our list of helpful resources.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Sorry for how i acted when i saw inefficient information transmission
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.
If it is indeed a screenshot I am very confused where all the padding came from. Unless it was copied from a rather unusual site I would assume someone either added the padding later on, possibly covering up other things, or they created the image themself.
Aaaand I just realized you were only giving an example.
From XYZ site:
Quoted text.
Done.
But what font did you want me to read it in?
Wingdings.
Especially as a lot of places and apps makes it nearly or completely impossible to copy text, at least from a phone.
It started a similar chain of thoughts in me. "What does this say about OP..." :)
Cool. Yet another thread where all the versions of myself have spoken before I even got here.
You are valid, and your feelings are valid!
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.
Have seen complaints about images but know it’s a vocal minority cuz images are so good
For now, images + great alt text should be fine IDK
Because we can't have the visually impaired knowing what we say in memes, it's top secret!
It's a piece of art - the vertical alignment tells a story
Are we like, low on pixels?
I'm glad I'm not the only one thinking this
That's one thing that makes me want to get myself checked. I am pretty sure I am on the spectrum, but still...
This one is my biggest cross to bear, I'm otherwise close enough to neurotypical that I was able too fool myself for decades.
Not sure anyone else bought it, but they didn't raise a fuss. Bless.