• Val@anarchist.nexus
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    5 days ago

    Two things:

    1. I don’t really get what posting this as an image gets. I would understand if the image was related or incorporated with the message but this is just some vague space motif.
    2. The lord that "owned"¹ the pitchforks couldn’t use them to spy on and control his subjects. And the lords opportunities to enrich himself with the sold pitchforks were very limited compared to computers. However while the analogy is a bit scruffy it is ultimately valid. We are limited by the tools of the current regime, even if we want to overthrow it, as not using them would make us invisible.

    ¹: how much ownership of an object do you really have if it’s in the hands of someone else?

    • _cryptagion [he/him]@anarchist.nexusOPM
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      5 days ago

      I don’t really get what posting this as an image gets. I would understand if the image was related or incorporated with the message but this is just some vague space motif.

      I like vaporwave and abstract meme formats. nothing of the message is lost by posting it in an image format.

      • Val@anarchist.nexus
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        5 days ago

        except screen readers can’t read it because the alt isn’t the text in the image, and you can’t search for it since it also doesn’t get indexed, but yeah it’s no big deal.

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            4 days ago

            Most people put a transcription in the body of the post to get around it. It seems piefed does allow it which is nice.

            Okay after looking around in the code of lemmy-ui and playing around with the form it seems that after you add the image the alt text field shows up at the bottom of the form, after language. nowhere near the actual image, so it’s no suprise you missed it.

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              Okay after looking around in the code of lemmy-ui and playing around with the form it seems that after you add the image the alt text field shows up at the bottom of the form, after language. nowhere near the actual image, so it’s no suprise you missed it.

              Ah good spot, maybe this week if I have a minute I’ll open a PR to move it below the image, which I think makes much more sense

              • Unruffled [they/them]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                9 hours ago

                We have had a soft rule for adding mandatory alt text on images in lefty memes for a while now. Still only get about maybe 50% compliance (I admit I haven’t checked precisely), but it’s definitely a lot better than it used to be.

    • lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.works
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      5 days ago

      a revolutionist is only limited by the tools of the regime if they play by their rules. if they were okay with breaking those rules, they could build whatever tools they meed, even if forbidden.

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        5 days ago

        I meant more technologically/ideologically limited. not legally limited. As in you cannot use a collectively owned tech services if they don’t exist. Obviously no revolutionist should be concerned with legality.