• webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
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    I am in agreement but also doubt.

    With the name and look, new users will still be looking for the old name.

    It also asks the question if we can post new format content under the old name and communities, tags? That probably depends on the community.

    Basically it calls for sitting around the table to discuss what a green text is and what it is not. Are we really organized enough for this?

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      Greentext is green, puts the reader in the shoes of the subject, and usually ends in a short line of non-green commentary. It isn’t a terribly hard concept to transfer somewhere else.

      Rather than Frankenstein the past like a save icon, we could be finding ways to make quoted text green in this community on Lemmy, thus fulfilling the requirements.

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        23 hours ago

        Pictures get way more engagement than text posts though. Platforms and app feeds are heavily biased to show thumbnails.

        Just a bit of css also wont retain its meme if people want to copy it.

        To make it an easily sharable meme of which text color cannot be altered. It must be a picture of green quoted text.

        I would also kinda argue the picture within often does add something, provides a sliver of information about the speakers personality. Sometimes “Picture unrelated” ads to humor.

        The pattern of where that picture is in relation to the text helps the pattern recognition of “this is a greentext” again.

        Basically just cut off the top line and we’re good.