- cross-posted to:
- chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
- cross-posted to:
- chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
The internet has become 3 massive multi-user blogs, each largely consisting of screenshots taken of the other two. This kind of blows, and not just for the usual reasons that may spring to mind.
Images are a terrible medium for online communication! Not everyone online uses a monitor. Any messages contained in a picture is straight up unacceptable without alt-text. It also makes it harder to find and fact check sources, or to spread a thought or idea further than yet another image upload. Copy/pasting text is just plain easier than downloading and uploading.
If you’re going through the trouble of creating an image post, take an extra minuite to copy/past (or even transcribe) the source text into the alt-text submission. It’s not much, but it goes a ways to improving how we use this blasted network!
https://uxdesign.cc/how-to-write-an-image-description-2f30d3bf5546
It’s absolutely wild to see emoji codes instead of images. I always use the emoji picker to find stuff instead of just typing something out. The inline picker is loading faster though, so maybe I should use that more, but unless I fully type out an emoji it still gets replaced with an image code.
I usually use the emoji code because it’s easier for me to read while I’m
shitpostingcomposing the comment with inline emojis. Compare the source of this comment to this comment to see why.Oh yeah, it was a ton easier to read than some UUID picture link, I was going to switch up how I use emojis until I checked how it federates