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kill them with irony (anarchist.nexus)
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[-] Val@anarchist.nexus 16 points 4 weeks ago

Two things:

  1. I don't really get what posting this as an image gets. I would understand if the image was related or incorporated with the message but this is just some vague space motif.
  2. The lord that "owned"¹ the pitchforks couldn't use them to spy on and control his subjects. And the lords opportunities to enrich himself with the sold pitchforks were very limited compared to computers. However while the analogy is a bit scruffy it is ultimately valid. We are limited by the tools of the current regime, even if we want to overthrow it, as not using them would make us invisible.

¹: how much ownership of an object do you really have if it's in the hands of someone else?

[-] _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 19 points 4 weeks ago

I don’t really get what posting this as an image gets. I would understand if the image was related or incorporated with the message but this is just some vague space motif.

I like vaporwave and abstract meme formats. nothing of the message is lost by posting it in an image format.

[-] Val@anarchist.nexus 7 points 4 weeks ago

except screen readers can't read it because the alt isn't the text in the image, and you can't search for it since it also doesn't get indexed, but yeah it's no big deal.

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah it appears this code exists within lemmy: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4477/files

But, at least on lemmy.world I don't see the option for adding alt-text on new posts

[-] Val@anarchist.nexus 3 points 4 weeks ago

Most people put a transcription in the body of the post to get around it. It seems piefed does allow it which is nice.

Okay after looking around in the code of lemmy-ui and playing around with the form it seems that after you add the image the alt text field shows up at the bottom of the form, after language. nowhere near the actual image, so it's no suprise you missed it.

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

Okay after looking around in the code of lemmy-ui and playing around with the form it seems that after you add the image the alt text field shows up at the bottom of the form, after language. nowhere near the actual image, so it’s no suprise you missed it.

Ah good spot, maybe this week if I have a minute I'll open a PR to move it below the image, which I think makes much more sense

[-] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

We have had a soft rule for adding mandatory alt text on images in lefty memes for a while now. Still only get about maybe 50% compliance (I admit I haven't checked precisely), but it's definitely a lot better than it used to be.

[-] _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 2 points 3 weeks ago

I guess I need to go through and add them to all these memes

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