@aakoskin you are on Mastodon. You have options because here are no algorithms, just real who prefer not to interact with people who behave like they're on twitter:
1) put Alt Text into your pictures to treat blind people the same as the people who can actually see what is in your image
2) stop adding pictures in the first place if you think they're irrelevant anyway
And most important:
3) stop jumping into people's replies just to be rude
I think that will better your experience here profoundly.