ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESFeb 1

There are plausible allegations of #childRape against the President of the #USA and the firehose of bullshit and attention spans are such that it registers meekly

Any other time in my life and for several lifespans before mine it would be the biggest fucking thing

Not to sound like a feeble old man yelling at clouds but it feels like the world is sick and broken in a way I don't understand

Is this #news going to fade by next week to a blip due to some new bullshit?

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#EpsteinFiles #Trump

Show threadᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESFeb 1

Alt text note:

These are dense images of text content that are much larger than the alt text buffer. I'm trying to honor alt text but I don't know how here

Content warning note:

These are images of text containing #childRape allegations that could be triggering. You have to zoom in a lot on the images to read them so avoid it if you are sensitive to this material

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#EpsteinFiles #Trump

Show threadWalrus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Feb 1

@benroyce

I think this is exactly the right approach to #AltText for this sort of material, even though it does exclude the people #AltText is for. I imagine some screen readers could cope with the images, but don't know. I can extract text from them, but I'm quite nerdy...

Show threadJupiter RowlandFeb 1
@Walrus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 That's actually a problem if you're on vanilla Mastodon with only 500 characters per toot and only 1,500 characters of alt-text per image. Your only chance would be to spread the transcripts across a massive thread.

If you regularly have to post images with well over 1,500 characters of text in them, you could move elsewhere in the Fediverse that offers more characters, but that's still federated with Mastodon. Examples:
  • Misskey has a hard-coded limit of 3,000 characters.
  • Sharkey has a configurable limit that defaults to 3,000 characters.
  • Pleroma and Akkoma have configurable limits that default to 5,000 characters.
  • Friendica and Hubzilla (I'm commenting from the latter right now) are limited to over 16.7 million characters by their databases.
  • (streams) (where I post my images nowadays) and Forte are limited to over 24 million characters.
On all of these, you could put text transcripts into the post text body and maybe mention in the alt-text that the texts in the images are transcribed in the post itself.

The downside of this, however, is that your posts will exceed 500 characters. And this means you'll lose a whole lot of reach. There are lots and lots of Mastodon users who block everyone who ever posts over 500 characters at once at first strike because they want Mastodon/the Fediverse to be and remain a 100% pure microblogging "service" with no more than 500 characters.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #Pleroma #Akkoma #Misskey #Sharkey #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #CharacterLimit #CharacterLimits #CharacterLimitMeta #CWCharacterLimitMeta #500Characters
Netzgemeinde/Hubzilla

Show threadWalrus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@jupiter_rowland

Useful comparison, thanks!

I just put stuff that's too big on my blog, and link to it, but not everyone has that luxury.

Feb 1 at 3:38pmWeb