I've just Liked Not Boosted seven lovely #SilentSunday images in a row.
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@Tattooed_Mummy I flittergibbet my way through different apps, have never found The One. I stopped using two of them because they kept deleting the Alt Text when you hit Send, which was a pain after you'd spent time writing it and then had to start again.
@CiaraNi I use moshidon on android (it's my favourite)
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@CiaraNi Maybe it's new people? Took me a year or so too to start doing it. No malintentions, just a slow learner.
@SonjaS Of course, it might take someone new time to catch on to using Alt Text if they weren't used to doing it elsewhere. I still won't boost a toot without Alt Text though, as that would be rude to others with sight impairments. In the case today, none of the ones I saw without Alt Text were new users. They were from veteran #SilentSunday posters who've been here for years. They're entitled to not use Alt Text if they don't want to. I was just surprised to see its use falling off.
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@CiaraNi I use moshidon on android (it's my favourite)
And Toot! And Trunks on my ipad@Tattooed_Mummy I tried Moshidon recently. I loved the look and feel, but it repeatedly threw away the Alt Text. So often that I gave it up after 2 days. It was frustrating and time-consuming to have to delete a posted toot and redo the whole alt text, with the risk of it being thrown away again.
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I've just Liked Not Boosted seven lovely #SilentSunday images in a row. Have we, like, just stopped doing Alt Text or what?
@CiaraNi I'm seeing fewer without alt text because I've started blocking veteran accounts which never use it.
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@Tattooed_Mummy I tried Moshidon recently. I loved the look and feel, but it repeatedly threw away the Alt Text. So often that I gave it up after 2 days. It was frustrating and time-consuming to have to delete a posted toot and redo the whole alt text, with the risk of it being thrown away again.
@CiaraNi @Tattooed_Mummy I just use the official Mastodon app, no alt text problems there. Ever given it a spin?
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@CiaraNi @Tattooed_Mummy I just use the official Mastodon app, no alt text problems there. Ever given it a spin?
@CarstenBoll @CiaraNi luckily I've never had an alt text issue here
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@SonjaS Of course, it might take someone new time to catch on to using Alt Text if they weren't used to doing it elsewhere. I still won't boost a toot without Alt Text though, as that would be rude to others with sight impairments. In the case today, none of the ones I saw without Alt Text were new users. They were from veteran #SilentSunday posters who've been here for years. They're entitled to not use Alt Text if they don't want to. I was just surprised to see its use falling off.
@CiaraNi Yes, was thinking along the same lines-- they might be new, still that doesn't mean you have to boost them, and yes, if they're not, well. I don't feel like ALT is in decline, though.
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@CiaraNi @Tattooed_Mummy I just use the official Mastodon app, no alt text problems there. Ever given it a spin?
@CarstenBoll @CiaraNi @Tattooed_Mummy admittedly, it was very late last night, but the mastodon web app threw away 20 minutes tapping at the moment I posted: I'd copied the body of the post from a txt doc, but not the alt text or tags. May have been memory issues - no, not mine!
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@CiaraNi I'm seeing fewer without alt text because I've started blocking veteran accounts which never use it.
@jeridansky I should probably do that. Good strategy. Similar to what I already do with GAI. I unfollow or block accounts that use AI slop.
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@Tattooed_Mummy I tried Moshidon recently. I loved the look and feel, but it repeatedly threw away the Alt Text. So often that I gave it up after 2 days. It was frustrating and time-consuming to have to delete a posted toot and redo the whole alt text, with the risk of it being thrown away again.
Tusky? I've never had an alt text issue. And thanks for the tip about settings
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@CarstenBoll @CiaraNi @Tattooed_Mummy admittedly, it was very late last night, but the mastodon web app threw away 20 minutes tapping at the moment I posted: I'd copied the body of the post from a txt doc, but not the alt text or tags. May have been memory issues - no, not mine!
@wavesculptor @CarstenBoll @Tattooed_Mummy I still use the Mastodon app, but sparingly because I've had this exact issue with it too. Sometimes it just throws away the toot after I've tippity-tapped the text in and I have to start again. Anecdotally, I think the pattern might be: I've written a toot, but then look at some other window on my phone, then when I go back to Mastodon to press Send, the text is just gone. Not even saved as a draft.
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@wavesculptor @CarstenBoll @Tattooed_Mummy I still use the Mastodon app, but sparingly because I've had this exact issue with it too. Sometimes it just throws away the toot after I've tippity-tapped the text in and I have to start again. Anecdotally, I think the pattern might be: I've written a toot, but then look at some other window on my phone, then when I go back to Mastodon to press Send, the text is just gone. Not even saved as a draft.
@wavesculptor @CarstenBoll @Tattooed_Mummy I've just realised that the real pattern here may be: every Mastodon app is trying to stop me tooting. I should probably go sit in a corner and think about this.
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@jeridansky I should probably do that. Good strategy. Similar to what I already do with GAI. I unfollow or block accounts that use AI slop.
@CiaraNi Oh yeah, I also block any accounts using AI slop, but I fortunately don't see many of those.
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I've just Liked Not Boosted seven lovely #SilentSunday images in a row. Have we, like, just stopped doing Alt Text or what?
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@CiaraNi Yes, was thinking along the same lines-- they might be new, still that doesn't mean you have to boost them, and yes, if they're not, well. I don't feel like ALT is in decline, though.
@SonjaS I think you're right. It is not generally in decline, I hope. It was just a coincidence, probably, that I saw so many in a row. And it's especially conspicuous when they are SilentSunday images without Alt Text, because there is other context at all.
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Tusky? I've never had an alt text issue. And thanks for the tip about settings
@forestfjord @Tattooed_Mummy Tusky was the first app I tried after moving into the Fediverse. I think it kept crashing, so I started looking for alternatives. That was a few years ago now though, so it's worth another look. It may have been some bug that's now fixed. Thanks for mentioning it, I'll check it out again.
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@wavesculptor @CarstenBoll @Tattooed_Mummy I still use the Mastodon app, but sparingly because I've had this exact issue with it too. Sometimes it just throws away the toot after I've tippity-tapped the text in and I have to start again. Anecdotally, I think the pattern might be: I've written a toot, but then look at some other window on my phone, then when I go back to Mastodon to press Send, the text is just gone. Not even saved as a draft.
@CiaraNi @wavesculptor @Tattooed_Mummy ah, that might be it, I never use it in that manner and never have this issue. I've tried it on other softwares, though, where I often need to cross reference something or look something up and it's infuriating to lose your text to some half-assedly implemented rich text editor...
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@CiaraNi Oh yeah, I also block any accounts using AI slop, but I fortunately don't see many of those.
@jeridansky Me neither. The few I did see and ended up unfollowing saddened me. They were otherwise lovely nice mutuals. Then AI Slop came between us.
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@SonjaS Of course, it might take someone new time to catch on to using Alt Text if they weren't used to doing it elsewhere. I still won't boost a toot without Alt Text though, as that would be rude to others with sight impairments. In the case today, none of the ones I saw without Alt Text were new users. They were from veteran #SilentSunday posters who've been here for years. They're entitled to not use Alt Text if they don't want to. I was just surprised to see its use falling off.
@CiaraNi @SonjaS
with a positive slant, I'm going to try boosting/quoting/replying to otherwise unnoticed images (and maybe noticed ones too) with this tag #altTextArt or maybe just #altArt or #altGem, where the alt text is as appealing (or more...) than the image itself. Any thoughts on which, or if useful if enough of us do it? -
@Flatus Ah! Det var på ingen måde ment som en direkte bemærkning til specifikke toots. Der er bare en del fotoer uden Alt Text på Silent Sunday i dag, flere end normalt, som fik mig til at kommentere det. Og flere af billederne var så flotte, at det ærgrede mig, at jeg ikke kunne dele dem
