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the only thing that happens when you have a short character limit on a microblog is that people post long text as images instead
26 Jun 2022 at 9:16 | Open on disqordia.space
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niconiconi

@chjara In China, this phenomenon has reached the nightmarish level since as early as in 2013. Posting a 10000x1000 image of a 10,000-word article is the standard way to share original writings, blog posts, or editorals on social media.

26 Jun 2022 at 9:23 | Open on cybre.space
Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
@niconiconi @chjara I guess that's one way of getting rid of text-encoding issues
26 Jun 2022 at 9:27 | Open on queer.hacktivis.me
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@lanodan @chjara It also became an unintentional anti-censorship feature I guess. The admins are coming after the post? Just click "save image", and you get a permanent copy immediately without the trouble of selecting text on smartphones. Later these posts will be mass-reposted by everyone all over the place. The text degrades generation by generation, but machine-unreadability is both a bliss and curse, at least it means they cannot be easily filtered out.

Recently many sites deployed OCR-based censorship, so you see more cursed variants with rotated text, or random marks people draw on top of the text to bypass the filter.

@lanodan @chjara It also became an unintentional anti-censorship feature I guess. The admins are coming after the post? Just click "save image", and you get a permanent copy immediately without the trouble of selecting text on smartphones. Later these posts will be mass-reposted by everyone all over the place. The text degrades generation by generation, but machine-unreadability is both a bliss and curse, at least it means they cannot be easily filtered out.

26 Jun 2022 at 9:49 | Open on cybre.space
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