I do like it here on Mastodon, but the huge influx of people from Twitter means there are far fewer image descriptions than from even a couple of weeks ago. I’d love to tell every one of them about this, but quite frankly there are so many I don’t have the patience. I’d dearly love it if apps could block posts unless an image description was added to every photo, but I suppose that’s too much to hope for. I’m feeling really excluded from so many conversations. It’s getting as bad as Twitter.
@RabBrucesSpider1 maybe we need a Culture Bot. Something that automatically responds to posts that don't have alt text, or that seem to include non-CW politics text, etc.
@acjay @RabBrucesSpider1 I was just thinking that... Probably an even better solution - and the feature could default to "on". Right after I posted above I remembered I posted a picture yesterday without alt text... Definitely accidentally.
@finity @RabBrucesSpider1 it would also be cool if pictures could be edited to add it, or if people could propose Alt text
@acjay @finity I believe the latest Mastodon app does that, and there are bots which can alert you, but there’s no consistency between apps & interfaces. Hopefully that will come soon, although I expect there will always be some people who ignore such things. As long as they are a minority, I could live with that.
@acjay @finity I hope so, I've submitted a change to the codebase to add exactly that :) https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/21679
@finity @RabBrucesSpider1 I had that option activated on my Twitter account: it was great!
@finity @RabBrucesSpider1 there's this one, but it's opt in https://botsin.space/@PleaseCaption
@finity @RabBrucesSpider1 do you think there would be any appetite for adding a warning to Mastodon itself that you're about to post an image without alt text?