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  • Jaynedotjayne@tech.lgbt
    Aug 9, 2025, 11:42 PM

    Alt text for blind and low vision users
    Alt text for low bandwidth users
    Alt text for flakey Internet
    Alt text for digital decay and link rot
    Alt text for text based browsers
    Alt text for calling out the relevant details you mistakenly assume are obvious to everyone
    Alt text for explaining the joke to people that don't have the same background as you
    Alt text for the 10,000 people learning something "everyone knows" for the first time today
    Alt text for leveling up your own writing skills
    Alt text for everyone

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  • Jaynedotjayne@tech.lgbt
    Aug 9, 2025, 11:50 PM

    If your post can't be comprehended 50 years from now by digital wizards who have written a mastodon client for a century-old speak & spell connected to the internet via Morse code bounced off the moon and powered by potatoes, it must not be important :blobfoxhappymlem:

    (ok maybe this last example is a bit much, but why take that chance??)

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  • Jaynedotjayne@tech.lgbt
    Aug 9, 2025, 11:58 PM

    Today's alt text rant was inspired by yet another cool #retrocomputing post that would ironically be mostly unintelligible to the hardware the poster had so carefully restored :neobot_cry:

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  • Kevin Russellkevinrns@mstdn.social
    Aug 10, 2025, 12:51 AM

    @dotjayne

    Alt text requires poison for meta scraping. Remember to poison alt text until Mastodon adds poisoning to images automatically.

    Meta is a crime happening to Mastodon users on images uploaded and meta scraping of alt text.

    Poison images, poison alt text.

    Lie in clever ways.

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  • smartsammlersmartsammler@chaos.social
    Aug 10, 2025, 5:00 PM

    @dotjayne @343max die meisten davon sind für mich relevant, da das Internet in Zügen durch Hessen schon arg eingeschränkt und ich Leuten folge, in deren Sprache/Codes ich nicht firm bin.

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