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2024-05-28 03:48:55

PhloXO

theleavingyear@zirk.us

Why is #alttext all cat pictures?

2024-05-28 08:05:35

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@Kathryn Three reasons.

One, there's one Mastodon bot that scrapes cat pictures from various sources, slaps AI-generated alt-text on them with no human interaction, churns them out hourly and adds the #AltText hashtag because they've got alt-text.

Two, #AltText should be used for discussing alt-text rather than image posts with alt-text which is why hardly any human user puts that hashtag on image posts.

Three, hardly anyone seems to discuss alt-text anymore. That, or more and more Mastodon users have fallen back into Twitter mode and stopped using hashtags altogether. And outside of Mastodon, almost nobody knows about or cares for alt-text anyway.

Thus, the bot-generated cat pictures dominate that hashtag.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Hashtag #Hashtags #HashtagMeta #CWHashtagMeta #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta