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   Daniel Supernault (dansup@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 16:50:32 JST Daniel Supernault

   • Pratik Patel

   @ppatel Pixelfed pioneered the feature to require you to enter alt text before posting a status

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     Daniel Supernault (dansup@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 18:30:15 JST Daniel Supernault

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     • Pratik Patel

     @ppatel how can we improve this? I'm open to making alt text easier, perhaps with on-device, privacy protecting AI models, but that is another discussion

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     Pratik Patel (ppatel@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 18:30:16 JST Pratik Patel

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     @dansup Oh I know. Unfortunately, I've learned that, just because a feature exists, does not mean that people will actively use it. There's something about photos and a platform dedicated to them, ... It's about a culture. While I'm not saying that people will ignore descriptions altogether, culture will matter as much as the toolset. So far, I've seen mixed results.

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     The Tepid Emperor (thetepidemperor@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 20:10:00 JST The Tepid Emperor

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     • Pratik Patel

     @dansup @ppatel I use the IceCubes app and it has a generate alt text option that I’ve found surprisingly good. I do tend to then edit the generated text to add additional context.

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     normy foxyoreos (foxyoreos@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 20:22:30 JST normy foxyoreos

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     • Pratik Patel

     @ppatel @dansup I've advocated for this for a while on Mastodon, but I guess there's no harm in suggesting it for Pixelfed as well since feature development seems to be happening a bit faster on there: an (optional) ability to have alt text suggestions in the UI without needing to use the alt4you/alt4me tags might possibly help a lot with this?

     Getting a suggestion as a notification and not cluttering replies, and being able to apply it with a tap instead of copy-pasting into an edited post.