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Xanathon Nov 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.

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Mohs Nov 14, 2023

@xanathon I'm not a direct user of it, but https://pixelfed.org/ might have something for that in theory and it is a tool primary for art and photos, so probably the right tool for you anyway.

Regarding accessibility, I see the point in having more people to be able to describe it. Maybe there the comments help with this approach?
But besides that, please keep in mind what burden it is to those impaired to see the images and not being able to resolve the issue on their end.

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Xanathon

@mohs Thanks for the suggestion, but I had a Pixelfed account and moved away from it because of multiple bugs that were not acknowledged at first (only later after multiple reports) and that lead to images not being federated (among other problems). I went away from it and will not go back, since the devs and admins were not friendly or helpful, so I no longer have trust in that project. Also Pixelfeds UX and UI leaves a lot to be desired.