Not only are image posts less accessible, they’re much lower effort. This community was much better when it was just structured jokes as text posts. Now it’s getting posts with the less than pointless “rule” crap and it’s slowly becoming yet another s#%$post community and losing what made it special.
Couldn’t we ask folks to tag posts if they are images and then let people filter as they please?
(I may be wrong but I think anything that lowers the barrier to participation is probably a good thing, especially for something as small as the fediverse.)
Filtering won’t help much if the community just posts images, and when image posts get hundreds more votes than the traditional text posts, that’s what will get posted more and more, letting the front page influence what “fits” here instead of the topic of the community.
I mean, if a fediverse community gets bombarded by fediverse users submitting post which:
A) they think fit B) some others think fit And C) can be filtered
Given the tiny fedi numbers, this seems like a good problem to have?
If it’s a big thing, surely we could make, recommend and enjoy a dadjokesforpurists splinter?
(Admittedly, not sober now so…)
If your goal is just “moar posts”, then sure, there’s no problem, but it will also subsume the original (and imo better) form of this comm as people who just see it as another meme community post low effort images for the attention. I don’t think that’s worth losing for more content, but for some people it will be.