In this case it's because part of the joke is the quote tweet. You could also link to the tweet instead of a screenshot but then we need to connect to Musk's servers at some point (even if through a proxy like nitter)

[–] enemenemu@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Yes, but he could've copy pasted the title.

You could've changed the main title to something like "programming the declaration of independence" or "programming like it's 1750"

He mocks op. The gag is not the font anymore.

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

But this way gives credit to Josh for the joke

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Another way is to use a content extractor.

the user will select the rectangular region to be extracted
Extractor will extract
- Josh's profile picture
- "Josh"
- The tick mark SVG
- "@jpshycodes"
- "Bro is coding ..." - the comment text
- Information that a frame is to be reproduced
- Ryan Els's profile picture
- "Ryan Els"
- The tick mark SVG again, but this time it will be deduplicated
- "@RyanEls4"
- "12h"
- "Rate my ..." - text for the comment inside the frame
- The jpeg picture inside the frame (yes it's a jpeg and not a PNG. IDK why. But look at it)

Then it would convert it into a reproducible package which can then also match your colour scheme for background colour etc.

Now just need to make such an extractor
And a corresponding format in Lemmy to display it

Sure it will be more work, but this way we can retain more fidelity with less space taken.

It will not be usable as proof, because the thing can be just written, but it's not like pictures work as a very good proof nowadays, anyway.

[–] Zenoctate@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

True but I think showing the quoted tweet is better than just in the title cause it is part of the joke in the image.

Title is normally used as a reaction or just simple text with some reference to the image

[–] tauren@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

I still think this format sucks because the punchline comes first.