Every time I upload and edit an image, I'm blown away by the ability to move the focus so the thing I want shows up in the preview image.
You drag that white circle around to move the focus. It's wonderful! Why don't we have that everywhere?
This is also the place to add alt text to your image (i.e., describe it so people using screen readers know what's there).
Not only is that the right and polite thing to do, but also some people won't share posts without alt text.
@grammargirl i am looking for a mastadon server that doesn't strip metadata in images (reinterpret anything other than size) and/or recognizes the OG tags coming from links. Alt-text can travel with images and thus be embedded and re-used
@zeroexp @grammargirl
Uploaded images are stripped of metadata in public sites for your own security.
I remember the case of the son of a drug lord in search and arrest who did a selfie with his father and put it on a social network. Police used the photo location metadata to find and arrest him.
Yes, that was a bad guy, but what about good people bein harassed?
Uploading files to public web sites which don't strip metadata can be a very effective way to doxing yourself.
this is all true. Yet I think there is an entire group of creators who want to be able to share images with other embedded data, not just location. SM could strip location w/o removing descriptive and copyright data. UI's with a little more friction might encourage better quality sharing while retaining more of the original context and intention of the share. I use software I created to share images with links using linked data techniques such as: https://imgsnp.co/ptxi0
@jgg @grammargirl this is an example of an image URL shared with metadata fields. Click on the image and flip it. In ImageSnippets, I have control over what metadata is saved in an image and wherever I share that URL, the metadata stays consistent
A nice way to display metadata, indeed.
@jgg @grammargirl thank you :-)