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
I've been doing alt-text wrong the whole time?! :kiryu-slam:
Emoji codes don’t translate as well when federated though:
Of course they don't work federated...
Edit: No, you seem to be doing it correctly.
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I should post/comment entirely with images as practice and as a bit.
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 ~~shitposting~~ composing 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