[throwaway1777]

This isn’t regressive at all. It’s a way to preserve and document something that will probably be deleted or made private. The alternative is maybe putting it into a pastebin or rehosting the text somewhere but somehow it seems less trustworthy that way even though photoshop exists. For accessibility purposes alt-text should be possible.

[endisneigh]

https://imgur.com/ju8XgGd

[greenthrow]

It's super regressive. You should be able to maintain all the content and all formatting and styling using far less data than a PNG or JPG of that same text requires. Images of text are super wasteful and their ubiquity is a condemnation of us both as users and software engineers.

[kyle-rb]

Twitter allows alt text but it's dependent on the user including it when they post (@collision did not) and it's limited to 1000 characters.

[sillysaurusx]

4000. Still too few.

[micromacrofoot]

It's definitely regressive, it's not even accessible. Some people literally won't even be able to read it.