Having the recipes posted in text would:

  • Make it easy for readers to copy them for later use, instead of having to manually transcribe them
  • Improve accessibility for the vision-impaired
  • Ensure that the recipes remain visible months or years later, surviving image cache and file host purges
  • Make them visible to folks on instances that don’t cache remote media, without having to allow off-site images in their browsers (which can be abused for web tracking)

Should this be a rule?

  • @essteeyou
    1•3 days ago

    If you see one that’s an image, you can put it into ChatGPT and pull the text out pretty easily. I just did it for a recent post, and stuck it in the comments.

    It’s better for accessibility, too.

    • moxOP
      2•3 days ago

      Better than what?

      Edit: Oh, do you mean text is better for accessibility than an image is? Yes, I agree with that.

      I thought at first that you were suggesting readers depend on ChatGPT to wrangle recipe screen shots posted here, with which I would not agree at all.

      • @essteeyou
        1•3 days ago

        I’m just suggesting that people can do that if they see a post that’s an image. It might mean people are more likely to do it than if they had to type it up.