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Besonders bei Screenshots aus Games oder, in meinem Fall, Renderings aus virtuellen 3-D-Welten, hast du da lieber kurze Beschreibungen, auch wenn die vieles im Unklaren lassen Oder hast du lieber detaillierte Beschreibungen, weil du ja weder sehen noch von vornherein wissen kannst, wie genau da was aussieht
Ich meine, ich gehe immer davon aus, da es da drauen irgendjemanden gibt, der blind ist, der von den virtuellen Welten, in denen ich unterwegs bin, noch nie gehrt hat, den aber dieses Thema so fasziniert, da er gern auf Entdeckungsreise durch so eine Welt per Bild gehen mchte. Da ist ja alleine schon die Erkenntnis, da virtuelle Welten mitnichten tot sind und tatschlich einige wirklich in Betrieb sind.
Dann mu ich natrlich eine hochdetaillierte Beschreibung liefern, die meine Bildposts auf eine riesige Gre aufblht. Dabei sehe ich mir aber nicht das Bild an, sondern ich gehe online und sehe mir alles direkt in der Welt vor Ort an, wo ich sehr viel mehr Details erkennen und beschreiben kann. Ein einzelnes Bild kann auch schon mal in einigen zehntausenden Zeichen beschrieben sein. Dazu kommt dann zustzlich eine krzere Beschreibung, die ich irgendwie in den Alt-Text quetschen mu, ohne 1.500 Zeichen zu berschreiten.
Zustzlich zu den Beschreibungen brauche ich ja auch noch Erklrungen. Ich kann ja nicht erwarten, da mein Publikum das alles kennt und sofort versteht, so obskur, wie die Welten sind. Ich kann auch nicht erwarten, da mein Publikum sich selbst aufschlaut, zumal ich wei, da das sowieso kaum mglich ist. Und von meinem Publikum zu erwarten, da es mich fragt, kann aus Mastodon-Sicht auch als schlechter Stil gelten. Also gehen in die lange Beschreibung in den Post auch noch Erklrungen mit rein.
Meinen persnlichen Rekord habe ich im Mai 2024 aufgestellt. Ein Bild von einem ziemlich groen, futuristischen, nicht sehr realistischen Gebude mit grozgig verglaster Fassade, durch die viel vom Innenraum sichtbar ist. Gut 60.000 Zeichen an langer Beschreibung, davon etwa 40.000 fr das Gebude nebst Innenraum. Auerdem ein Alt-Text von 1.500 Zeichen, von denen etwas ber 1.400 eine Kurzbeschreibung sind und der Rest auf die Langbeschreibung im Post hinweist. Die Langbeschreibung hat zwei Tage gebraucht, am dritten Morgen habe ich den Alt-Text geschrieben.
Ich habe mich da schon einschrnken mssen. Im Gegensatz zu frheren Gepflogenheiten habe ich keine Bilder auf dem Bild in mehr Details beschrieben, als das Bild auf dem Bild selbst zeigt.
Wrdest du sagen, das ist gerechtfertigt Oder wrdest du sagen, das ist totaler Overkill und berhaupt nicht gerechtfertigt, wenn die Wahrscheinlichkeit, da so jemand zu meinem winzigen Publikum gehrt, unendlich klein ist
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Das ganze letzte Jahr ber habe ich genau zweimal Bilder gepostet. Das waren alles Memes. Da bleibt zwar die visuelle Beschreibung im Alt-Text im Rahmen, aber weil meine Memeposts immer ber extreme Nischenthemen sind, mu ich Erklrungen mitliefern. Nicht immer kann ich aber auf externe Erklrungen verlinken (wobei viele es am liebsten htten, wenn ich gar nichts verlinken und alles selbst im Post beschreiben wrde, um sich dann daran zu stren, da der Post ber 20.000 Zeichen lang ist).
Mein letzter Post mit ganz eigenen Bildern war . Da habe ich einige Stunden gebraucht fr einen Block mit langen Beschreibungen nebst Erklrungen und Transkripten von ca. 20.000 Zeichen, einen Alt-Text mit genau 1.500 Zeichen und einen mit fast 1.500 Zeichen. Jedes Bild ist zweimal beschrieben, einmal im Post, einmal im Alt-Text. Das mache ich seit Jahren bei meinen eigenen Bildern immer so.
Fr sowas habe ich aber nicht oft die Zeit und Energie. Seit Ende 2024 habe ich die Beschreibungen fr eine Reihe an einfachen Avatarportraits in der Mache. Ich habe schon absichtlich den Bildern einen einfachen weien Hintergrund gegeben, um den nicht auch noch detailliert beschreiben zu mssen. Der erste Schwung wird 67 Portraits auf 20 Bildern in wahrscheinlich 6 Posts werden, weil Mastodon nicht mehr als vier Bilder in einem Post kann.
Geschrieben habe ich bisher die Prambel fr den ersten Post mit 14.000 Zeichen an ntigen Erklrungen und 5.000 Zeichen an visueller Beschreibung fr alle Bilder gemeinsam, dazu die individuelle visuelle Beschreibung fr das erste Bild mit drei Portraits in ca. 2.500 Zeichen. Wann dieser erste Schwung fertig beschrieben ist, steht noch in den Sternen. Dann kommt noch einer mit 62 Portraits und mglicherweise noch je einer mit fnf bzw. drei.
Ehrlich gesagt habe ich schon Bilder gemacht und mich hinterher dagegen entschieden, sie zu posten, weil ich sie einfach nicht adquat htte beschreiben knnen. Lieber poste ich sie gar nicht als mit unzureichenden Beschreibungen. Andere Motive habe ich gar nicht erst im Bild festgehalten, weil ich sie nicht htte adquat beschreiben knnen.
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I've learned something about alt-texts and image descriptions in the Fediverse again today: You must never talk about alt-texts and image descriptions. Ever.
Oh, sure you're allowed to give all those unsolicited lectures who don't provide alt-texts. Or alt-texts that don't describe the image. Or alt-texts that don't describe the image accurately. Or alt-texts that don't describe the image enough. Or alt-texts that don't describe the image in the right way. Just prepare to be counter-attacked for being an intrusive, mansplaining reply guy, at least in the latter three cases.
But what you must never do, under any circumstances, is attempt to discuss alt-texts and image descriptions. For that's ableist. Even if actually blind or visually-impaired Fediverse users may disagree. But since when does the Mastodon alt-text police listen to them Or, in fact, to anyone
You aren't allowed to ever ask if you're doing it right. For that's ableist, too.
You aren't even allowed to think about how to do it right. For that's ableist, too.
Just do it. Literally everything else is ableist.
Oh, but you absolutely must do it the right way. 100% by hand with no AI help whatsoever, even if you're blind or visually-impaired or autistic and unable to turn images into words. Absolutely accurately, at the right level of detail and in the right style. And you must know right off the bat what the right level of detail and the right style is. Without thinking about it.
Thing is: The Mastodon alt-text police have never agreed upon one standard level of detail, depending on the circumstances, and one standard style. Everyone of them thinks that their preferred way is the one and only gold standard, and everyone of them enforces their preferred way as if it's the one and only gold standard. All with no coordination with anyone else.
So you post an image, and you write an alt-text. Just like you think you're required to do. So far, so good.
Then comes Alice from the Mastodon alt-text police and calls you out as ableist because your image description isn't detailed enough. How dare you mention there's something in the image without describing what it looks like You're supposed to know that you have to do that!
Okay, so you edit it according to Alice's requirements.
Then comes Bob from the Mastodon alt-text police and calls you out as ableist because your image description is too long and too excessively detailed. You're supposed to know that you have to keep your alt-texts short and succinct and only describe what's important within the context of your post! Fun fact: Your original alt-text would have been too detailed for Bob, too.
Needless to say that Alice and Bob have never talked to each other. However, this is not so much due to the Fediverse-wide, Mastodon-imposed ban on discussing alt-texts and image descriptions. It's because both are on Mastodon and only on Mastodon, and Mastodon with its complete lack of support for enclosed conversations, much less groups, is absolutely horrible for discussions.
The only way to get around this is to never post any images or other media. However, if you mention at some point that you don't post images because you're afraid of uncoordinated Mastodon alt-text police attacks because one or some of them find your image descriptions not up to their personal standards, you'll probably be attacked for allegedly trying to weasel out of your responsibility.
Of course, this also means that is pointless. Not only pointless, but its very existence is ableist. And if someone else reads it, they're ableist, too. So don't click or tap that link.
# # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # That's because Hubzilla has a feature called nomadic identity ().
The channel that I'm replying from, here on hub.netzgemeinde.eu, has a clone on hub.hubzilla.de. A full, live, hot, bidirectional, near-real-time backup that I can use just like the original. This is a feature that some are trying to invent right now, but that "proto-Hubzilla" has had since 2012.
Within Hubzilla, both instances of my channel count has having the exact same identity, jupiterrowlandhub.netzgemeinde.eu, and as being one thing, only that this thing exists in two places simultaneously.
However, the non-nomadic Fediverse neither knows nor understands nomadic identity. It sees the two instances of my channel as two fully separate identities. Thus, I guess lots of Mastodon users must have blocked me for having an unlabelled bot.
# # # # # # # # # # I always use a lot of hashtags. I have to. But many of my hashtags are not to increase discoverability. They're to trigger filtering, including filters that hide my content behind CW buttons. Such filters have been available on Mastodon since October, 2022 and here on Hubzilla (, , ) since its inception before Mastodon was even made.
This, by the way, is why some of my hashtags start with "CW": They're only there as content warning triggers/content warning substitutes, also because I have no means to add Mastodon-style content warnings to replies. Otherwise this comment would show the following CW on Mastodon:
CW: long (over 4,700 characters), Fediverse meta, Fediverse-beyond-Mastodon meta, hashtag meta, content warning meta, character limit meta

However, unless I explicitly talk about certain hashtags, they all always go into the last line. And I think that even 20 hashtags in the last line of one of my posts or comments make people less uncomfortable than the post or comment exceeding 500 characters or myself talking about the Fediverse, especially talking about the Fediverse not only being Mastodon.
This comment, for example, would get the following hashtags (normally in the last line, but this time I'm talking about them):
Just the other day, I found something out. Something very inconvenient about Misskey and maybe also the Forkeys.
It should be commonly known that Misskey has a local limit of 3,000 characters for posts (which it refers to as "notes"). What is not so well-known is that Misskey has a limit of about 8,000 characters, probably 8,192 or so, for inbound messages, ironically fewer than this post is long. Also, it has a limit of 512 characters for alt-text, both locally and in-bound.
Mastodon has a character limit for in-bound content, too, at least for Note-type objects (not for Article-type objects because it refuses to render them fully and links to the original instead). To my best knowledge, it rejects messages with over 100,000 characters. As for its 1,500-charater limit for alt-text, it enforces that by truncating alt-text that's longer.
Misskey, in contrast, truncates everything that exceeds its limits while still letting it in. If your post is longer than the inbound limit of ca. 8,000, all excess characters are chopped off and thrown away. If your alt-text is longer than 512 characters, all excess characters are chopped off and thrown away.
I don't know which Forkey behaves how in this regard, seeing as all Forkeys I know about have a configurable local post character limit that can be adjusted to well over 8,000. But even if the inbound limit is configurable, too, I don't think any *key admin cranks it over 60,000 or over 70,000 or over 100,000. It's simply unimaginable that someone, anyone, could ever post that much at once if your idea of the Fediverse is pure microblogging.
Also, I don't know what *key users do when they come across a truncated post or what blind or visually-impaired *key users do when they come across a truncated alt-text. Do they even suspect that it's a truncated copy of something that's longer at its source and then go check the source Either way, it's very inconvenient.
It's especially inconvenient for me. My longest posts by a gigantic margin are image posts with original images. They always have a long image description block in the post itself that tends to be tens of thousands of characters long. It contains highly detailed visual descriptions of all images in the post. It contains all explanations necessary to understand the post, the images and the descriptions. It contains verbatim transcripts of all bits of text within the borders of the image that I can read, no matter whether or not my audience can.
In addition, each image has a shorter description in the alt-text, along with a bit that announces the long description, including where to find it. I even used to explain how to get to that description for Mastodon users for whom the summary and content warning hides the post text, but not the images, depending on which Mastodon version and frontend they use. This alone took up several hundred characters in the alt-text. All in all, I got to a point in which my alt-texts always ended up either at precisely 1,500 characters or just a few characters short.
I myself am not really bound to character limits. I used to post images here on Hubzilla where I have over 16.7 million characters for the post, including all alt-texts. Now I post them on (streams) where I have over 24 million characters. I could theoretically write alt-texts as long as I want to, seeing as, unlike on Mastodon, they aren't separate text fields instead, they're being woven into the image-embedding markup code in the post text.
Still, I stick to a maximum of 1,500 characters for alt-text to keep Mastodon from truncating it. If you post images into the Fediverse, the main audience for your alt-text is on Mastodon, and most of them don't understand that there's something, anything, out there in the Fediverse that does not work exactly like Mastodon. And 1,500 characters can be tight already.
But if I have to stay within Misskey's limits, I can hardly post images anymore. At least not with appropriate descriptions and explanations.
Since late 2024, I have been working on-and-off on a series of fairly simple avatar portraits or rather their image descriptions. The idea is for the long description to consist of a preamble that starts with a general summary, followed by explanations, then followed by visual descriptions of what all images in the post have in common. Next come the individual descriptions of each image. Each post shall have three or four images with three or four portraits each, all in the same pose, all with only minor differences in outfits, all with a neutral, bright white background.
In addition, of course, each image shall have an alt-text, and none of the alt-texts shall depend on each other.
Now, the problem is that I have to describe three or four individual portraits in each alt-text. I'm actually struggling to squeeze such a description plus the note that announces the long description into 1,500 characters, especially if I want to fulfill Veronica Lewis a.k.a. Veronica With Four Eyes' requirements for outfit descriptions to a tee in the alt-text as well (, see also and ).
But in 512 characters so that even Misskey users won't get a severely truncated version This is absolutely impossible. Even if I limit the long description announcement to some 100 characters, even if I didn't walk people through how to get to the long description, I'd have fewer than 140 characters on average to describe each individual outfit.
The long description won't fare any better. Currently, the preamble starts with some 14,000 characters of explanations, most of which are necessary to understand the visual descriptions. But when Misskey goes and truncates the post at the 8,000-something mark, Misskey users won't even get to any visual description because all visual descriptions would be chopped off.
What makes matters worse is that the preamble grows the longer, the easier to understand I make it and the less I leave people with unexplained technical or jargon terms which you shouldn't use in image descriptions at all anyway. So the next time I go through it and rewrite it to make it easier to understand, I'll also make it even longer than it already is.
But what if I simply cut all the explanations For one, I'd leave people to their own devices to understand extremely obscure niche content. They won't. My explanations aren't 14,000 characters long because I've artificially inflated them, but because there is so much to know before you understand the post and the images and the descriptions.
Besides, the visual descriptions alone won't fit into 8,192 characters either. What I currently have is over 5,000 characters of common visual description for all portraits in all images plus about 2,500 characters of individual visual description for the three portraits in the first image. That's over 7,500 characters altogether already. And I still have to describe nine portraits in another three images. The post will end up with some 15,000 characters of visual descriptions unless they grow longer when I simplify them again.
I guess users of Misskey or any Forkey will still have to put up with truncated alt-texts and truncated long descriptions in the future. But my future image posts will contain a paragraph at the beginning that explains that the post and/or the alt-text may be truncated on Misskey and the Forkeys, and that both are uncut at the source. Still, this means that *key users will have to put up with the extra hassle of opening my original post at a source with a quite cumbersome UI. And I've got my doubts that this UI is really accessible.
Unfortunately, this also means that *key users won't get any hashtags along with these posts. But then again, the handling of Identi.ca-style/Friendica-style hashtags with the number sign outside the link is broken on all *keys and will remain so for the foreseeable future.
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That said, is your goal only to use FEP-ef61 for identities that are tied to their accounts and their servers Or is your goal fully-fledged nomadic identity on the same level as on Forte
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I see a few issues with it.
For starters, it only knows two options: Either the image contains no text whatsoever, or the image is text. It does not cover e.g. photos that have text somewhere in them. I myself would add at least one more option to the first question so it can distinguish between an image with zero text, an image with some text and an image that literally is text. In fact, I'd add some more questions regarding text.
A question that's critically important but missing: What are you writing your alt-text for Options should include:
Each option would lead to a different set of following questions, based on two factors:
This is because . Mastodon's alt-text police entirely consists of fully sighted amateurs who neither know nor care about W3C, WCAG etc., and they aren't beyond sanctioning the kind of alt-text that professional Web developers and accessibility experts preach just because they personally find it sub-standard or not detailed enough or whatever.
I could think of a whole lot more questions regarding the context, the audience (including, for Fediverse content, whether it's public or restricted to a certain audience/private), how much the audience can be expected to know about the topic and the contents of the image and how likely the audience will be how curious about everything.
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