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This may be true for real-life cat photos. Just about the most simple images imaginable in the Fediverse.
But what if I don't just post real-life cat photos in which I don't have to describe much more than the cat Because I don't post real-life cat photos. I don't post real-life photos at all unless they're meme templates.
My own original images are renderings from 3-D virtual worlds. Very obscure 3-D virtual worlds even. This means:

As for the actual alt-texts, I'll try to keep them at 512 characters or fewer, difficult as that will be. But I'll do that for technical reasons: While Misskey and its forks are supposed to truncate longer alt-texts at the 512-character mark, they actually delete them due to a bug. If I make them longer, users on Misskey, Sharkey, Iceshrimp-JS etc. will believe that I haven't written any alt-text in the first place.
But I will keep adding long, fully detailed image descriptions to the post text where I have much more room. I need room for sufficiently detailed descriptions, I need room for all the explanations necessary for people to understand the post and the images and the descriptions, and I often need room for all the text transcripts.
For example, do you know what the main building on Nebadon Izumi's Universal Campus looks like Would it be sufficient for you if I just name-dropped it Or must I describe what it looks like
If so, well, that's 40,000 characters of description only for that building and what's visible inside it because the building mostly has glass panes for walls. 7,800 characters only for the front of a building that's five times as long as it's wide. 500 characters only for that one piece of structure around the main entrance doors. In fact, over 1,600 characters for the doors. Also, 3,200 characters for a teleport panel, including transcripts of 13 bits of text. Been there, done that, got the figures from there.
Don't worry, I will always hide long posts behind a summary with content warnings, including a warning about the post being tens of thousands of characters long due to the long image descriptions.
In fact, my meme posts will continue to be very long themselves, although not quite as long as posts with original pictures. Describing the visuals is easy most of the time, and it can be done in 512 characters or fewer. But they still need explanations. Otherwise, nobody will understand anything. All my meme posts are about obscure topics, too.
Now I'm wondering what's more likely to upset people and make them sanction me in some way, including blocking me without saying a word. Insufficient image descriptions Insufficient alt-text in particular Not putting all the text transcripts into the alt-text where many insist that they belong Or posts behind summaries and CWs that indicate that these posts are 25,000, 40,000, 60,000 characters long
But seriously, even if I cut down visual descriptions to a more normal level, which would come with its own nasty side-effects, I would still need to explain everything. So no, I can't keep image posts at 500 characters or fewer.
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Sorry, wenn's jetzt lnger wird. Und es wird jetzt verdammt lang. Denn mit dem Thema Alt-Texte und Bildbeschreibungen im Fediverse befasse ich mich schon seit Jahren entsprechend habe ich viel dazu zu sagen.
Ein Problem, das viele mit Alt-Texten haben, ist, da sie wie gefhlt 95% der Mastodon-Nutzer immer nur am Smartphone sind. Alt-Texte knnen sie nur auf dem Touchscreen eingeben. Zum einen ist das fummelig, zum anderen knnen sie whrenddessen das Bild nicht sehen, das sie beschreiben.
Was die Alt-Text-Polizei angeht: Das bezeichnet ja nicht nur Leute, die einfach nur versuchen, andere dazu zu bringen, Alt-Texte zu schreiben. Eine tun tatschlich nur das. Andere aber versuchen, gewisse Mindeststandards im Fediverse durchzusetzen.
Es reicht einfach nicht mehr, da es berhaupt Alt-Texte gibt. Bildbeschreibungen mssen absolut akkurat und korrekt sein, sie mssen einen Mindestdetailgrad haben, Texte mssen exakt Zeichen fr Zeichen transkribiert werden usw.
Allerdings spricht sich die Alt-Text-Polizei nicht untereinander ab. Das kann sie gar nicht, weil es dafr Diskussionsgruppen bruchte, die Alt-Text-Polizei ausschlielich auf Mastodon ist und Mastodon nicht nur keine Gruppen hat, sondern auch annhernd null Untersttzung fr schon existierende Gruppen woanders im Fediverse. Die allermeisten Mastodon-Nutzer wissen ja nicht mal, da das Fediverse berhaupt Gruppen hat, weil eben Mastodon keine hat.
Und mit blinden oder sehbehinderten Nutzern sprechen die sich auch nicht ab, so da sie gar nicht wissen, was diese Nutzer wirklich wollen. So hat jeder seine eigenen Mindeststandards, die hufig ber die Anforderungen der tatschlichen Zielgruppen von Alt-Texten hinausgehen. Man begreift die aber jeweils als den alleingltigen Goldstandard und wei auch nicht, da andere bei der Alt-Text-Polizei Standards haben, die den eigenen widersprechen.
So gibt es dann Leute bei der Alt-Text-Polizei, denen es reicht, wenn es berhaupt einigermaen brauchbare Alt-Texte gibt. Die sagen, wer seine Bilder nicht selbst beschreiben kann (z. B. aufgrund von Behinderungen von Autismus-Spektrum-Strung ber ME/CFS bis Blindheit), soll eine KI zur Hilfe nehmen. Andere sagen, Bilder drfen auf gar keinen Fall mit KI beschrieben werden. Sie mssen aber trotzdem sofort mit Alt-Text gepostet werden, und zwar mit handgeschriebenem.
Es passiert stndig, da Alt-Text-Polizisten Nutzer anblaffen, weil die mal ein Bild nicht sofort mit sauberem, akkuratem, hinreichend detailliertem und definitiv komplett handgeschriebenem Alt-Text gepostet haben. Wohlgemerkt, Nutzer, von denen die Alt-Text-Polizisten wten, da die gar keine Alt-Texte schreiben knnen, wenn sie sich mal die Mhe machen wrden, sich deren Profil anzugucken. Da steht dann auch schon mal klar und deutlich, da der Nutzer blind ist.
Dann gibt's die, die in irgendeinem Alt-Text-Leitfaden fr statische Websites oder Blogs mal gelesen haben, Alt-Texte drfen nicht lnger als 125 Zeichen sein. , auch wenn Alt-Texte trotzdem eigentlich kurz sein sollen.
So, dann kommen aber die, die sagen, das Fediverse hat ein Zeichenlimit fr Alt-Texte von 1.500 Zeichen (was brigens so nicht mal korrekt ist). Das kann man ruhig voll ausnutzen. Bilder mssen also im Fediverse schn detailliert beschrieben und, falls ntig, auch noch erklrt werden. Mal ganz davon abgesehen, da . Ein Alt-Text von unter 200 Zeichen ist laut diesen Leuten meistens vllig unzureichend.
Damit riskiert man, entweder von den einen auf den Deckel zu bekommen, weil die eigenen Alt-Texte zu lang sind, oder von den anderen, weil die eigenen Alt-Texte nicht detailliert genug sind, oder von beiden, weil sie irgendwo dazwischen sind.
Weil es keine Mglichkeit gibt, mit der Alt-Text-Polizei in irgendeiner Form etwas zu diskutieren bzw. sich von ihr beraten zu lassen, sind Spezialflle beim Posten von Bildern hochriskant. Je obskurer etwa ein Thema ist, je seltener davon Bilder gepostet werden, desto weniger gibt es ein schon greifbares Konzept, wie und vor allem wie detailliert die beschrieben werden mssen. Trotzdem riskiert man, auf den Deckel zu bekommen, wenn man es falsch macht.
Manchmal sind es auch einfach nur einzelne Konzepte, die nie zu Ende definiert worden sind. Beispielsweise Text-Transkripte. So, wie die Regel formuliert ist, mu alles an Text innerhalb der Grenzen eines Bildes immer exakt Zeichen fr Zeichen transkribiert werden.
Aber was, wenn der Text auf dem Bild so klein ist, da er auf dem Bild selbst nicht lesbar ist Wenn der Text so winzig ist, da er nicht als Text erkennbar oder gar im Grunde unsichtbar ist Wenn der Text teilweise verborgen ist hinter z. B. einem Objekt, das davor steht Wenn man aber trotzdem wei oder herausfinden kann, was da geschrieben steht, also durchaus in der Lage ist, diese Texte zu transkribieren
Weil diese Regel den Sonderfall des nicht lesbaren Textes nicht einmal in Erwgung zieht, geschweige denn tatschlich mitbehandelt, ist unklar, ob solche Texte transkribiert werden mssen, transkribiert werden sollten, transkribiert werden drfen oder auf gar keinen Fall transkribiert werden drfen.
Zum Thema Erklrungen: Hier ist unklar, ob die wirklich zwingend notwendig sind. Unklar ist auch, ob man wirklich alles bis auf die Grundlagen erklren mu, damit auch wirklich niemand irgendetwas nachschlagen oder Fragen stellen mu. Unklar ist auch, ob man alles selbst erklren mu oder Links auf externe Erklrungen erlaubt sind. Einige sagen jetzt natrlich: "Links sind doof, das mu schon im Post selbst erklrt werden!" Da ist dann wieder unklar, ob die ein Problem damit haben, wenn ich 10.000, 15.000, 20.000 oder mehr Zeichen an Erklrungen in den Post einbaue.
Aus diesen Grnden poste ich selbst nur noch sehr selten Bilder. Selbst wenn ich Memes poste, ist die rein visuelle Beschreibung im Alt-Text nebst Transkripten der zum Meme gehrenden Texte noch bersichtlich. Aber weil auch meine Memes immer ber sehr obskure Themen sind, gibt es dann immer im Post selbst sehr viel zu erklren.
Meine eigenen Bilder beschreibe ich sogar zweimal, einmal relativ kurz im Alt-Text und noch einmal hochdetailliert im Post-Text. Die Bildbeschreibung im Post-Text enthlt auch immer Transkripte von allen Textschnipseln innerhalb der Bildgrenzen, lesbar oder nicht, und alle notwendigen Erklrungen. Der Alt-Text weist zustzlich noch auf die lange Beschreibung im Post-Text hin.
Nur ist das ein Aufwand von mehreren Stunden bis hin zu mehreren Tagen. Und weil keiner meiner Kanle im Fediverse nennenswerte Reichweite hat, ist dieser Riesenaufwand im wesentlichen eine Vorsichtsmanahme, um mglichst viele Bedrfnisse abdecken zu knnen, ohne da jemand fragen mu, und mglichst allen tatschlichen und vermuteten Mindeststandards weit voraus zu sein.
Wenn ich mich vorher mit a) Blinden und Sehbehinderten und b) der Alt-Text-Polizei irgendwo in einer Gruppe austauschen knnte, dann knnte ich vorab ausdiskutieren, was in welchem Grenzfall die optimale Lsung ist und was tatschlich zwingend notwendig ist. Dann htte ich hoffentlich diesen Riesenaufwand nicht.
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Ah, yet another promising over "long-horizon tasks" while managing to say absolutely nothing! It's like watching a toddler explain quantum physics with a crayon. Spoiler: the "horizon" is still as distant as ever.

Also, an image doesn't always need the exact same alt-text whenever it's posted somewhere.
The alt-text must adapt to the context. It must be different according to the context in which an image is posted. Also, it must adapt to the place where it's posted. The same image, even within a very similar context, must have . Lastly, and this ties in with the Fediverse requiring different alt-texts, the audience must be taken into consideration.
Alt-text in metadata can't do either of this. An LLM can't do either of this either unless it's explicitly prompted to do so, and even that is questionable.
Many Mastodon users dream of only pressing a button or not even that, and some AI automagically generates a perfect alt-text for their image. Perfectly accurate with exactly the details required for the context and the intended audience as well as the expected audience, all while following every last image description and alt-text rule out there to a tee.
It's perfectly understandable. Mastodon had begun to feel like child's play when they were suddenly pressured into describing each and every image they post. Worse yet, it seems like over 90% of all Mastodon users do everything on a phone with no access to a hardware keyboard whatsoever. So they have to fumble their alt-texts into a screen keyboard while not even being able to see the image they're describing.
I'm neither on Mastodon nor on a phone. I've got the luxury of having a desktop computer with a hardware keyboard and being able to bllind-type. So I don't have a problem with writing my image descriptions myself with no help from an AI.
In fact, my own original images are all about an extreme niche topic. It's so obscure that no AI will ever be able to describe such images, much less explain them at my level of accuracy and detail. (, but I always have an additional image description in the post text for my original images anyway.)
I simply know things that no AI will ever know, not ChatGPT and not Claude either, at least not at the point in time when they need that knowledge. And I can see things that will always remain invisible for AIs.
You can develop better models all you want. But they'll never be able to do all that.
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With literally any other , such as , investors demand that you *increase * year over year, quarter after quarter -- or they're out.

When it's a bubble, that same investor class will buy, and buy, and hold, and buy, and buy, after year after year of negative . And they will keep putting in more.

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No, it doesn't.
Depending on the hub, it does have a choice of themes (Netzgemeinde and hubzilla.de don't), and even then, you can tinker with the layout a lot if you want to.
But it's hard-coded to no more than three columns, one centre column plus a maximum of two sidebars. And since it doesn't have the Mastodon client API implemented, and it never will, you can't use it with third-party apps either.
Be very careful, though, if you do move: Hubzilla is not just Mastodon with more characters and text formatting. There's hardly anything in the Fediverse that does *blogging that's more different from Mastodon than Hubzilla.
On the other hand, Hubzilla probably has the best built-in help of all Fediverse server applications. And it has its own support forums, so if you need help, you don't have to shout into the void and hope that someone will catch your hashtags.
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That's because , be it due to physical disabilities (you can't access alt-text if you don't have at least one working hand, at least not easily), be it due to their choice of software.
If there's any information not in the image, not in the post text, only in the alt-text, then these people will not be able to get this information. It's lost to them.
So !
If you need more than 500 characters once, write a thread.
If you need more than 500 characters regularly, move to where you have more characters, e.g.:
It's all part of the Fediverse, i.e. it's all fully federated with Mastodon. (Greetings from Hubzilla which has over 16M characters, too).
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If that shouldn't suffice, I've got more than 50 articles, pages etc. about alt-texts and image descriptions linked on , including 25 articles by Veronica Lewis a.k.a. Veronica with Four Eyes.
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A woman dies and ends up at the pearly gates. There's a long line. St. Peter is asking people questions:

"Mrs. Sanchez. Let's see here... how much money did you make in your lifetime"

The woman seems confused, says she can't recall.

"About 1.5 million euros," says St. Peter. "How much of that did you use to help others"

Again she doesn't know.

"Over 70 percent! Welcome to heaven, Mrs. Sanchez."

The next man in line tells St. Peter that he made over half a billion in his life.

"And how much of that did you use to help others, Mr. Johnson"

The man begins talking about the various charitable foundations his company created, his philanthropic giving...

"Mr. Johnson," Peter interrupts, "between the tax writeoffs and the circular charity you used less than one percent of your income to help anyone else."

Mr. Johnson's protest is cut short by the trap door beneath his feet. His scream echoes as he falls.

Eventually it is the woman's turn. Peter glances at her and then his huge ledger.

"Ms. Smith, how much money did you make in your lifetime"

She thinks for a moment then Peter answers for her,

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