Michael Smith (Neo) on Nostr: A bit of an annoying trend I’ve started to notice here on #Mastodon and the ...
A bit of an annoying trend I’ve started to notice here on #Mastodon and the #Fediverse lately is people posting pictures of text with content I’m not really interested in to see or read. But due to it being a picture and not parsable text, content filters don’t apply. Why would one deliberately go through this trouble, reducing (self) #moderation effectiveness and waste a bunch of extra bytes in the process?
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