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Long The downside would be that the image would always have the same alt-text. This is bad.
Alt-text should always adapt to the context and the audience. Depending on the context, different things in the image could be important. A personal blog or a static website requires different image descriptions than posting on social media, and commercial silos have culturally different requirements for acceptable image descriptions than the Fediverse with an audience mostly on Mastodon.
Blogs and static websites have limited audiences, namely those who actively seek them out. If you blog about a super-obscure topic, you can be certain that everyone who reads your blog is familiar with that topic. If you post the self-same images on social media, people receive them who don't know diddly-squat about the topic, so different descriptions are necessary.
If you write a 150-character alt-text, you conform with Web standards when you use it on your website, but Mastodon users may scold you for describing your image too little when you use it in the Fediverse.
If you write a Mastodon-compatible alt-text with 1,000 characters, Mastodon users may celebrate it and mention it to the , but Web accessibility experts will scold you for your alt-text being too long if you dare to use it for an image on a static website (also, Misskey/Sharkey/Iceshrimp-JS users may scold you for allegedly not writing any alt-text at all because Misskey and all Forkeys delete alt-texts with over 512 characters due to a bug).
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He has created and set up the bot right after Musk has bought out Twitter when millions of people were escaping from Twitter to Mastodon. The goal was for him to keep his overall numbers of followers or even increase it.
Once that bot worked as intended, he didn't have to log in again.
So the last time he logged in was way before marking automated bots as such became mandatory. In fact, AFAIK, it was before it was even possible to mark a bot as such. That's why his account is not marked as a bot.
If you really want to reach him and tell him something, try or Bluesky.
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Agreed. I'm also complaining that it takes a lot more time for me to post media with alt-text, proportionally, and doing so doesn't increase attention to that post.

I agree. Alt text may be an amazing multiplier, but zero times anything is still zero

Sounds like me. My image posts have next to no audience.
Basically, I've got three kinds of image posts.
One, memes about the Fediverse. And I don't mean memes that treat the Fediverse as only Mastodon, or that make the Fediverse being Mastodon with a few things attached as add-ons being the unquestioned standard. I post them on .
Two, memes about 3-D virtual worlds. I post these on .
Both of them are tricky in various ways. They only get one visual description each, and it goes into the alt-text. The tricky part here is that I no longer let my alt-texts grow longer than 512 characters. That's due to a bug on Misskey and its various forks and forks of forks (Sharkey, Iceshrimp-JS etc.): They only support alt-texts with up to 512 characters. They're supposed to truncate longer alt-texts, but instead, they delete longer alt-texts with no trace. So if you write an alt-text that's longer than 512 characters, someone on Misskey or Sharkey or so will think that you haven't written any alt-text at all.
In addition, I have to explain them which I do in the message text and not in the alt-text. My impression of especially Mastodon is that people love receiving explanations along with images that they don't understand right off the bat. I believe it has gotten to the point that these explanations are becoming or have since become almost as mandatory as visual descriptions. And both the Fediverse beyond Mastodon and 3-D virtual worlds are super-obscure topics that require explanations, not to mention that not everyone knows and understands all meme templates. So I have to explain my own image macros plus the topic they're about plus the meme templates I've used.
This is what really requires time and effort. That is, for the meme templates, I resort to links to KnowYourMeme. Some people on Mastodon are staunchly against links to explanations and demand that one explain everything right in the post. I've done that once. The result was six explanations with over 12,000 characters for one single meme template ("One Does Not Simply Walk Into Mordor"), and I haven't even explained The Lord of the Rings and its characters. I don't really think these people prefer 12,000 characters in one post to one link to KnowYourMeme, even if the two explanations for the topic took up another 12,000+ characters.
Well, and lastly, I sometimes post renderings from 3-D virtual worlds. I post these on , too. If I post them at all, for I haven't posted any in over two years.
That's because the effort is even bigger. Not only do I have to explain them, but I have to describe them twice. The image description in the alt-text is the short one. Again, no explanations, and this time, usually no text transcripts either. And then there's the long, fully detailed image description in the message text. It contains all explanations necessary, and it contains transcripts of any and all bits of text anywhere within the borders of the image, readable or not.
If I'm lucky, I don't have to write much more than 20,000 characters of descriptions, explanations and transcripts for one post. If I'm not so lucky, this block will exceed 60,000 characters and take two full days to research for and write for only one image.

I treat it like muscle, gotta keep my alt-text skills sharp cos one day someone might actually want to read my shitposts.

I actually try to optimise and improve my image descriptions further and further whenever I learn something new, e.g. new image-describing rules or guidelines. And I've learned enough about describing images and writing alt-texts specifically for the Fediverse that I've started putting together a wiki about that special topic.
Maybe I'll start following the advice from Veronica with Four Eyes and give two visual descriptions for each of my image, one in the alt-text, one in the message text for those who are visually impaired enough to not see my images clearly, but not so visually impaired that they require a screen reader to read the text on the screen.
Maybe I might go as far as describing my virtual world renderings three times so that there's an additional shorter description in the message text.
I mean, as you can probably tell from this comment, I don't have to worry about local character limits.
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Hubzilla (which I recommend to anyone who is eyeing Bonfire) and its descendants, (streams) and Forte, have two searches.
One is in the navbar. It searches the whole server database for whatever you enter: keywords, hashtags, non-group actors, group actors (the actual accounts/channels and not their content) and even the built-in documentation. If someone on the server has posted it, if someone on the server has received it, this search can find it as long as you're permitted to see it.
This search tends to be rather slow when used for keywords: It has to search the whole server database, it apparently does so without a search index when searching for keywords, and it only starts listing search results when it's done with the actual searching. If you're on a very big server with a four-digit number of channels that has been around since before Musk even took buying out Twitter into consideration, this search is so slow when it's used for keywords that it's pretty much useless. On a server started a few years ago with about a dozen channels, it's significantly quicker, but still, it doesn't show content instantaneously.
Interestingly, it's a great deal quicker when you want to search for hashtags because Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte index hashtags. The same goes for non-group actors. In these two cases, the search even offers auto-complete before you start the actual search.
The other search is in the sidebar of the stream page. It only searches your stream, i.e. what you've posted and what you've received. It isn't so much a search as it's actually a stream filter. Also, it dynamically loads more content when you scroll down. All this makes it significantly faster. But this search can't find what has never gone through your stream.
Both searches are strictly chronological. Also, when searching for keywords or hashtags, they always present single messages although they always show entire conversations otherwise. However, these messages always have a button at the bottom that takes you directly to the full conversation.
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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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