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  • 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.



  • 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.