#eyecontact — Public Fediverse posts

Communication experts say highly likable people do 10 things in conversations to build relationships

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/communication-experts-say-highly-likable-people-do-things-during-conversations-to-build-relationships

Stop struggling with awkward eye contact by using the 'Triangle Method'

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/stop-struggling-with-awkward-eye-contact-by-using-the-triangle-method

Communications expert shares 3 simple tricks to stop oversharing during conversations

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/tips-to-stop-oversharing

@Siège avec vue

I've had to sit through it all again, why shouldn't you?

I'm so very much not going to go back through my entire Hubzilla image post log and add image descriptions to every last one of my images.

Call me ableist. Call me lazy. But I simply don't have the time and the energy. And I'd need a whole lot of time and a whole lot of energy because when I describe images, I invest more of both into describing one image than you invested into describing all images on your entire travel blog.

Each of my original images gets two descriptions: a "short" description in the alt-text (which is actually still massive even by Mastodon standards, much less by Web standards) and a "long" description in the post text which also contains all explanations necessary to understand my images as well as transcripts of all text within the borders of the image, for any definition of "text". The description in the alt-text may only contain text transcripts if they're only few and short enough.

A simple image may require a long description of 20,000-30,000 characters. A complex image may require a long description of well beyond 50,000 characters. My personal record is slightly over 60,000. If I'm also required to describe all images within my image, the long description may grow so long that the post exceeds 100,000 characters, a length at which Mastodon will reject it.

That said, if I go and add alt-texts to old posts from three years ago that are actually pretty much outdated, Mastodon won't understand it as an edit but rather as a brand-new post. I'd flood my contacts (or at least those who haven't silenced me) with old content which isn't even obviously old.

Also, if I do and alt-texts to old image posts that don't have alt-texts yet, the image description quality will decline sharply from the newest image post with freshly added image descriptions and the first image post that already had image descriptions. This means that I'd also have to go and edit and upgrade all those of my image posts that already have alt-texts so that everything is at the same level of quality. I'd have to upgrade all image posts on this channel because they're all outdated.

By the way, one of these images contains well over a dozen "persons" for any definition of "person" (actually only a handful of digital avatars and otherwise static figures), probably over 200 individual vintage album covers and a whole lot of other details. The amount of necessary visual descriptions is already staggering, but then all the necessary explanations will come on top.

I'd also have to describe images that aren't technically from me, but that are included in shares, better known as quote-posts outside of Hubzilla. (Hubzilla has had quote-posts for 13 years now, and it can theoretically quote-post anything from Mastodon toots to blog posts.) These quote-posts are only dumb copies of the originals, so I could add alt-text to images without alt-text. But for one, that'd mean to "falsify" the quoted posts because I can't add alt-text to the originals.

Besides, I can't describe the images properly anyway. See, I don't describe images by looking at the image. I describe images by looking at the real thing because the image doesn't show enough details. But I'd have to figure out where all these images in the quote-posts were made. Some of these places no longer exist, so I can't visit them for a close-enough look anymore. Ithers have changed too much, and none of them still have the same avatars in the same outfits in them as seen in the images.

Some of the images in the quote-posts are animated GIFs. That'd add an extra level of complexity in the shape of a time-coded description of what is happening in the image and when. Some images show highly complex animated art installations that even include light effects. It would take me an eternity to describe these adequately, that is, unless I fail trying.

While I'm editing these posts, I'd also have to give them proper summaries and content warnings (including "long post" when the added image descriptions inflate a post from previously only a few hundred to tens of thousands characters), bring the hashtags up to my current standards etc.

And in fact, I'd have to delete almost all image posts anyway and repost those that aren't quote-posts on my two (streams) channels, @Jupiter Rowland's (streams) outlet and @Jupiter's Fedi-Memes on (streams). That's because pretty much all my old image posts contain eyes in some way, so they're eye contact triggers. But Hubzilla doesn't have any way of making certain Mastodon user interfaces hide them, not if they don't make images disappear behind content warnings as well (Mastodon before 4.4 doesn't do that either, by the way). (streams) does have such a way which is why I only use (streams) to post images nowadays, that is, if I ever get to posting new images and describing and explaining them properly.

Well, and if I deleted these old posts with their outdated or completely missing image descriptions, I'd also delete entire conversations with some very important comments in them. But if I didn't delete them and edited them, I'd trigger someone somewhere out there with eye contact.

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