@jaz #ALT4you and a random tampon

I'd like to better understand how (whether?) #Alt4You hashtags get searched for.

If you depend on alt texts (permanently or just atm): how do you deal with posted images that don't have one?

Do you hope to find an #Alt4You in a reply, and search for it, if the post reads interesting?

Do you just skip, no matter the text of the post, if there's no alt text?

@smaurizi #alt4you

Martin Konečný writes this short summary on 2025-10-14.

EU Commissioner press briefing yesterday:

Journalist: You've said that Russia should repay for reconstruction of Ukraine. Do you believe Israel should repay for reconstruction of Gaza?

EU chief spox: It's an interesting question, on which I have no comment at this stage.

I'd like to better understand how (whether?) #Alt4You hashtags get searched for.

If you depend on alt texts (permanently or just atm): how do you deal with posted images that don't have one?

Do you hope to find an #Alt4You in a reply, and search for it, if the post reads interesting?

Do you just skip, no matter the text of the post, if there's no alt text?

@nitot #ALT4you Bande dessinée en deux cases. Première case : une personne demande à un personnage incarnant une IA si un champignon est comestible. L'IA répond que oui. Deuxième case : la personne est alitée, visiblement très fiévreuse, l'IA, à son chevet, lui dit qu'elle avait raison, le champignon était toxique. L'IA demande si la personne veut en apprendre davantage sur les champignons toxiques.

@smaurizi

#Alt4You

Graph showing that the numbers of nuclear warheads of the Soviet Union/Russia and the US grew from zero to 10s of 1000s in the 1950s, dropped dramatically during the late 1980s, and dropped more slowly during the 1990s.

Title: "Thanks to Gorbachev & the anti-nuclear-arms-race movement, Global nuclear-warhead stocks have been reduced 85%"

@cartes_app
#ALT4you
Détournement du mème de XKCD Dependency.
La légende est remplacé par "All OSM infrastructure", le commentaire qui pointe sur la brique sur laquelle tout repose par l'image de profil de @cquest

@Taweret The video shows a young man in swimming trunks looking into a small pool with a pink liquid covering the surface. He dives into the pool, but the person who emerges from the pool is a woman in a bikini. She looks at the camera and says, “That's what they meant by gender fluid.” #Alt4You

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#Alt4You (it doesn't fit into Mastodon description character limit)

GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

STATEMENT ON ITALIAN NAVAL FRIGATE ATTEMPTING TO UNDERMINE THE GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA

September 30th, 2025

The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has informed us that the naval frigate shadowing our flotilla will soon issue a radio call, offering participants the “opportunity” to abandon ship and return to shore before reaching the so-called “critical zone.” Let us be absolutely clear: this is not protection. It is sabotage. It is an attempt to demoralize and fracture a peaceful humanitarian mission that governments have failed to take on themselves, even though it is their silence and complicity that led to this point.

This is cowardice dressed up as diplomacy. If Italy truly sought to protect lives, it …

#ALT4you Snapshot of a Finnish government website showing an article published on 29 August, titled "Ministerial Committee on European Union Affairs discusses proposal for EU regulation on combating sexual violence against children".

@esoteric_programmer @royaards

#ALT4you first attachment. Death is crossing red lines that are being painted in blood on the ground as he goes. Scythe held high and dragging a huge smear of yet more blood behind their rugged grey robes. In that deep bloodtrail proudly walks a small king wearing a ragged Israeli flag, following Death in lockstep wherever this fallen angel leads the way.

2nd attachment shows the illustration as it is included in the Japanese magazine.

#ALT4you Announcement of 2025 State of Open Infrastructure Report, showing a QR code and the quote "Supporting the development of community-owned infrastructure, build on open source software, where researchers, academic institutions, and the public have a stake in ownership and governance, can create a more resilient system and insulate against government interference or disruption."

#ALT4you The image shows a summary card of the EuroRust talk by @mainmatter that is described in the 3 toots, including a photo of the speaker.

@aschrijver

Due to a bug in the #Discourse #ActivityPub plugin the image is included twice and with the wrong alt-text (the one that auto-generated on image upload).

The #ALT4you alt-text is the exact text of my toot at this location:

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/114884321738552453

cc @angusmcleod

(Plus the federation of this caused another nginx "504 Gateway Time-out" on SocialHub forum)

The future version of this sketch will have the text "I can't. This is important. The internet is WRONG!"

#ALT4you images shows a modified XKCD cartoon "Duty calls" of a person in front of the computer, while significant other asks "Are you coming to bed?" and replying "I can't. This is important". The other person then asks "What?", answered by "Someone is wrong on the internet. And all of the AI's of the future will be trained on this!"

#ALT4you handwritten note with the text "if you can't reason about reality.. you shouldn't be architecting it".