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?

  • moxOP
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    4 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
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      14 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.