XanathonNov 14, 2023
I have a problem. I wanted to post my art here, but I feel overwhelmed by the need to add an image description every time. Since my images are fantasy and scifi themed, describing the content in a meaningful manner often is very time-consuming and difficult. And because in the #Fediverse I get yelled at if I do not add an image description I am highly frustrated. So I have lots of images that were not posted here.

Any idea how to solve that? Insights? Ideas?

Obviously a good solution would be to add a mechanic so others can describe an image and the image poster can approve (or deny) a description that then is added. But that would have to be done at protocol level.
Show threadLukas

@xanathon Ignore the yelling people and post them anyways. You're still free to do what you desire, even if it (potentially) limits the interaction of others with your posts.

Alternatively, you can just add a very technical description like "Image of my latest art".

Or, probably not a great alternative, since you may not want to feed your art into AI, but AI with image recognition could write a description.

Nov 14, 2023 at 11:37amWeb
Show threadXanathonNov 14, 2023
@darkcisum I see the reason and need for alt texts and I rather would like a solution for this. AI is completely useless for this case, as it is not able the describe fantasy and scifi based art images. I tried that and had a lot of laughs. :)
Show threadLukasNov 14, 2023
@xanathon I feel like especially for art as in pictures/drawing/painting it's okay to not have an alt text. Paintings in an art gallery usually also just have the title of the piece and have people interpret how it affects them. Maybe someone would write a guide for the gallery either interpreting or just plainly describing the piece, but there aren't people yelling at the artist for not including an extensive description with the painting.
Show threadLukasNov 14, 2023
@xanathon And don't get me wrong, I think it's great that alt texts are pushed much more on here.