Most jokes keep their meaning in text form.
Ironic
This makes memes more accessible to blind people, and costs less internet traffic bandwith and electricity.
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Absolutely horrible idea, have an upvote.
get a downvote for your horrible idea finding my idea horrible!
I haate you!
You where supposed to destroy the Sith not join them!
A screenshot of a 2017 twitter post copied onto reddit copied onto lemmy
- different resolution
Here is my text. I’ve added alt text too.
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POV: You’re reading a meme that doesn’t make sense without an image, except in this one particular instance.
Here’s an example of a meme that would be terrible if converted to text only.
I agree that some things, like simple tweets, one liners and some chats can become text only, but even then, it is easier for people to take a screenshot and repost it, rather than copying the original text and giving the proper credits.
Another thing is, say there is a small thread in Lemmy and someone said something funny. A person screenshotted it and posted it. Then another user pointed out that their “username checks out”, or something, which the original screenshotter didn’t notice. If the screenshotter only copied the text, people would have missed the username is funny thing.
I will attempt to translate that meme to text:
Me starting at my mum after she revealed my deepest darkest secret to make our guests laugh: 😒
Okay, it’s still funny, but you missed the irobot face. That specific face conveys a lot more than this simple emoji.
hmm so maybe distribute both text with emoji and the image
Then your point makes no sense, since adding alt text is not an unpopular opinion, and is always encouraged.
okay then I take that back, memes should be textual description of images
Lemmy needs some of the same nags Mastadon has to encourage adding alt text. Honestly I’m not even sure how to add alt text when I do post images!
I use Voyager app, and I get an accessibility ivon to add alt text when creating a new post.
That’s kinda sad that a third party app has better accessibility integration than the official project’s UI. I specifically use the web interface on both mobile and desktop, and if there is a way to add and view alt text on images I’m not seeing it
That’s just a joke
Not far enough.
They should all be a couple paragraphs of text centered on top of an image such the text is unreadable and the image indecipherable.
Only then will they get the right amount of attention.
