We should introduce "Community ALT text" on Mastodon (and rest of the fediverse), much like the Community notes feature on Twitter. This would be really helpful for situations where it's challenging to provide a proper description for an image.
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Interesting idea.
You would probably need a way of dealing with abuse. But I see see it being useful.
@reiver @mitexleo From what I've seen, the Twitter one is widely used for harassment / to circulate misinfo by plucking data out of context (which makes it worse than not bothering at all).
For this proposal specifically, I think it would add a fair bit of complexity, and that might be enough for someone to not really want to bother with it.
