#captionyourmedia — Public Fediverse posts

I see so many people abusing the media description feature, so here is an irregular reminder of what you should do with the feature:

Describe the media!

I know, right? Its almost as though you could have guessed that yourself. Just describe the media in a way that people who can't see and/or hear it still get the gist.
Don't just write a teaser of the description and then leave out the most important part. That's just cruel!
If you can't write a media description ask for help by using the AltForMe hashtag and leave the field *empty* until you get a description that you can copy-paste in.

Abusing the media description feature tricks people into boosting your post, because they think everybody will be able to enjoy it.

#MediaDescription #MediaCaption #caption #CaptionYourMedia #AltText #accessibility

:fedi: The 10 #Fediverse commandments:

1. #CaptionYourMedia

2. Use #CamelCase

3. Use content warnings when necessary.

4. Don't post retweets.

5. Don't use discriminatory language.

6. Respect people from marginalized groups.

7. Be kind to one another.

8. Don't #fedisplain, mansplain, whitesplain, ...

9. Report/ban nazis, terfs and other scum.

10. Have fun.

#FediverseCommandments #10FediverseCommandments #FediverseRules #rules #FediTips