i turned off altbot for now.

[micr0@wetdry.world]

i turned off altbot for now.

a conversation happened that i need to sit with and that i want others to read and also to consider: https://ieji.de/@anantagd/115804706509841365

[rdfrkian@social.tulsa.ok.us]

@micr0 he makes valid points.
But remember alt text is also for browsers that don't display images. In essence it becomes text for the sighted & unsighted.

I don't think it's necessary to turn your tool off. Up to you of course. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[micr0@wetdry.world]

@rdfrkian its temporary. I just wanted to draw some attention to the discussion.

[gubi@sociale.network]

@micr0 @rdfrkian altbot is a great service, human generated alt text WOULD be better, but the fediverse from now on WILL be worse because shutting down altbot will result in having no description at all for the images, and not in having all altbot users starting magically to write alt texts for each and every post.