Ooooh now this is interesting. My first reaction was "hah, yeah exactly!". But then I thought: this image of text contains more information than just the textual content. For example:

• The words are someone else's, not OP's
• They were sourced from a different social media network to this one

Also, it may be due to the prevalence of smartphone use in interacting with Lemmy vs using a traditional computer: it's often quicker and easier to take and share a screenshot of text than it is to select, copy and paste that text.

I'm not saying you're wrong. I just read your comment at the time my morning coffee really hit, and it spawned an interesting chain of thoughts.

So... thank you. And sorry for inflicting this braindump.