I haven’t really thought about it. I might resort to scanning the comments and doing a Bayesian score. Comments tend to use key words from the meme.
It’s not for science; it doesn’t have to be particularly accurate.
Also, mutherfuchers should annotate images with textual descriptions for fukcing accessability reasons, but they don’t. That’s something the Mastodon community does better the lemmy community does.
In large part bc Lemmy does not actually show the alternative text under virtually any conditions (except the source view). Maybe some apps do?
Caveat: PieFed now shows these by default, for posts (not comments).
It’s a vicious/virtuous cycle where people want something, but Rust is a super difficult language to work with, so it’s unlikely to happen except on a timeframe of a significant fraction of a decade.
Caveat 2: PieFed is written instead in Python, and we get brand new features practically weekly, e.g. lately polls and post flairs (neither of which federate out to Lemmy though, since as you guessed already, Lemmy lacks them).
people with accessability needs are presumably going to use clients and readers that do show alt text, though, right?
I agree about Rust. As popular as it’s becoming, it’s still nowhere near the level of other languages. That means fewer users to contribute to projects, which means slower changes. And, yes, compiled languages development is, in general, slower than scripting language development. How does this impact posters adding alt text? I don’t see three connection.
I should write a script to count Blazin’ Bev vs Time Loop; I think Loop won by sheer volume.
How might one even do that? It’s not like the post title, comments, etc. reliably indicate the subject of the post.
shrug
I haven’t really thought about it. I might resort to scanning the comments and doing a Bayesian score. Comments tend to use key words from the meme.
It’s not for science; it doesn’t have to be particularly accurate.
Also, mutherfuchers should annotate images with textual descriptions for fukcing accessability reasons, but they don’t. That’s something the Mastodon community does better the lemmy community does.
In large part bc Lemmy does not actually show the alternative text under virtually any conditions (except the source view). Maybe some apps do?
Caveat: PieFed now shows these by default, for posts (not comments).
It’s a vicious/virtuous cycle where people want something, but Rust is a super difficult language to work with, so it’s unlikely to happen except on a timeframe of a significant fraction of a decade.
Caveat 2: PieFed is written instead in Python, and we get brand new features practically weekly, e.g. lately polls and post flairs (neither of which federate out to Lemmy though, since as you guessed already, Lemmy lacks them).
people with accessability needs are presumably going to use clients and readers that do show alt text, though, right?
I agree about Rust. As popular as it’s becoming, it’s still nowhere near the level of other languages. That means fewer users to contribute to projects, which means slower changes. And, yes, compiled languages development is, in general, slower than scripting language development. How does this impact posters adding alt text? I don’t see three connection.