bilbo baggins comtemplating the one ring, lotr meme: "after all, why not? why shouldn't i alt text?" "it grants me great powers of engagement"

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   Ben Royce 🇺🇦 (benroyce@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 01-Sep-2025 01:21:16 JST Ben Royce 🇺🇦

   #mastodon #fediverse #etiquette post

   always use #alttext

   you don't have to write a novel. just describe your #video or #picture succinctly

   for pictures of #text, there's easy quick online tools to turn it into text

   it's not just a matter of making mastodon a friendlier place for #disability: sometimes people aren't in a place they can listen, or they have a bad connection, or the media decayed

   and some people don't boost posts without alt text, so you lose engagement

   alt text

   always