I am frequently on Piefed (Lemmy) and occasionally on Mastodon and I noticed they use ALT tags for images way more on Mastodon than we do here.
Anyone know why this is? it is more about the software or the culture or maybe just historical?
It seems like a good idea to always set the ALT tag for an image post on both services, and I’ve seen many ppl on the other site say they won’t boost (share) any image posts without ALT tags (since vision-impaired people really benefit from them).
Just curious…
Mastodon is ostensibly a broadcast communication method between users. Lemmy/Piefed is a link aggregator.
There’s a different emphasis on responsibilities here. If I’m broadcasting something for people’s benefit, I want to extend that to everyone as best as I can, and it’s my content, so I’m responsible for doing so.
If it’s just “here’s a website or image I found”, do I care more than the original creators did?