Hey, nice find!

I'll get this fixed in the next release.

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edit: Looking at my old code it might be time to add typescript, es6 and promises to make it ✨  p r o d u c t i o n   r e a d y  ✨

That's true I would make feature request to those clients to add this very important functionality.

I am the developer of Voyager, but there are many great Lemmy clients out there! ;)

literally harmless accessibility solution “abuse” because they don’t like it for whatever reason.

Well, I am calling it "abusing the post body" because it doesn't federate to all services. Captions (or as Lemmy calls them, alt text) does federate better as it was designed to use a more standard federation data type that Mastodon understands.

So, using the post body for captions actually kinda is harmful in the lens of Mastodon users, and other federated services that don't support Lemmy's post body.

Yeah, that’s fair.. it’s unfortunate, it’s a really important feature

Im just trying to help. The post body doesn’t federate to mastodon, so nobody there will see it. Alt text e.g. captions does though. This is one of the main reasons image captions were added to Lemmy.

Nobody is stopping you from using both either. However is you have an accessibility concern with captions, you should definitely report is to the Lemmy devs so they know and can make the implementation better.

Yeah it pretty shitty. Will probably be used to disenfranchise students

I voted against it

Lemmy 0.19.5 has captions, no need to (ab)use the post body

As others said, it doesn’t support the domain rn. PRs and issue reports are welcome 🙏

Whut about purple people

A few are on Mastodon! https://grndcntrl.net/links/#ElonJet