I do like it here on Mastodon, but the huge influx of people from Twitter means there are far fewer image descriptions than from even a couple of weeks ago. I’d love to tell every one of them about this, but quite frankly there are so many I don’t have the patience. I’d dearly love it if apps could block posts unless an image description was added to every photo, but I suppose that’s too much to hope for. I’m feeling really excluded from so many conversations. It’s getting as bad as Twitter.
@RabBrucesSpider1 Upon arrival here, it took me a few days to figure out this is possible, which is the good that messages like yours perform.
But then I had to spend a few minutes to figure out how to do it. I have a antiquated, but still somewhat passable knowledge of online systems. Many Twitter arrivals lack this. They were, perhaps without realizing it, dependent on the magic algorithm to deliver them what they wanted.
I think that in addition to telling them what to do it would help to tell them how. The edit button in the upper right corner of an uploaded photo didn't initially jump right out at me as the obvious solution.
