@Kirrus @Alt Text Hall of Fame It's a bit like me. Only a bit, but still.

I must have hundreds of unposted meme images about two general topics, and I've got ideas written down for many more. But I rarely post any, and there are some of which I don't know if I'll ever post them.

The visual description including text transcripts for the alt-text isn't the big issue. It has become more of an issue since I've started limiting my alt-texts to no more than 512 characters so that Misskey and its forks don't delete them.

But what's an even bigger issue is the explanation that goes into the message text. I always give explanations for my meme posts. For the actual image itself, for the template(s), for the topic because the topic is always something that hardly anyone is familiar with. Even if I only link to KnowYourMeme for the template explanation(s), these explanations tend to grow very long, and it takes quite a bit of time and effort to write them.

I'm actually wondering if it costs me more reach on Mastodon when I post a meme picture with thousands of characters of explanations, or if it'd cost me more reach on Mastodon if I posted my meme images without explanations.

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