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@Elena Rossini ⁂ Little nitpick maybe from someone who takes image descriptions very seriously: I myself would never explain something in alt-text.

That'd mean that there's information exclusively only in the alt-text and neither in the post text nor in the image. Those who can't access alt-text, and there can be a lot of reasons for this, have no access to this extra information. For this reason, I always put explanations into the post itself.

But then again, I don't have a character limit to worry about whereas at least half the Fediverse has no more than 500 characters.

I also take content warnings seriously, and I try to cater to the needs of those who have automated reader-side generation of content warnings (Friendica users, Hubzilla users, (streams) users, Mastodon users who know that Mastodon 4.x has this feature; see the many hashtags below) as well as those who rely on poster-supplied content warnings in the summary field (everyone else). I might irritate the latter because I still use the summary field for summaries as well.

It got to the point at which I've stopped posting images that could possibly trigger someone on Hubzilla and created two (streams) channels for them because Hubzilla can't make Mastodon blank out images, but (streams) can. I know that Mastodon 4.3 finally hides images behind CWs, but I think it'll be years until no instances run Mastodon older than 4.3 anymore.

I also feel like halfway into trouble because Hubzilla doesn't let me add Mastodon-style CWs to comments (= replies). It doesn't have a text field for them because that'd be akin to being able to hiding a blog comment behind a summary. And the [summary][/summary] BBcode tags work on (streams) when going out via ActivityPub, but not on Hubzilla.

Some may say I overdo content warnings, and I overdo image descriptions even more. But without enough feedback, I prefer to err on the "too much" side.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #ImageDescription #ImageDescriptions #ImageDescriptionMeta #CWImageDescriptionMeta #CW #CWs #CWMeta #ContentWarning #ContentWarnings #ContentWarningMeta #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams)

@_elena @mathi_gwithyas @alttexthalloffame @rysiek @Gargron @FediTips @phanpy @Tusky @ivory @jon @IceCubesApp @Simx72 I'm American. I do feel ashamed of U.S. politics . I can't imagine anyone from any other country feeling more ashamed than I do.