I’m not unsympathetic to accessibility issues, but at the same time it’s REALLY suspicious how much internet randos (especially on Bluesky) suddenly started being really militant about alt-tagging at EXACTLY the same time as the tech billionaires started needing tagged images to train their clankers.
I’m not unsympathetic to accessibility issues, but at the same time it’s REALLY suspicious how much internet randos (especially on Bluesky) suddenly started being really militant about alt-tagging at EXACTLY the same time as the tech billionaires started needing tagged images to train their clankers.
People on Mastodon have been like that forever, though. I just thought it was a tendency that came from that culture.
That’s never sat right with me either.