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Your Curator of :mastoart:•ARTists 🎨. Supporting #MastoArt & creativity for the :fediverse: since April/2017. she/they/fae

dotART announcements blog: https://dotart.blog/dotart-blog/

CuratorPrompts: https://mastodon.art/@Curator/tagged/curatorprompts

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Curator:: [@welshpixie](https://mastodon.art/@welshpixie )
Jan/2019-Feb/2021: [@Rheall@comicscamp.club](https://comicscamp.club/@Rheall )
Apr/2017-Dec/2018: [@CuratorClassic](https://mastodon.art/@CuratorClassic )
Code of Conduct: https://mastodon.art/about/more#code-of-conduct

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2024-06-13 07:58:33

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Ooh, one last thing: tips on encouraging use of alt-text!
If you find a toot you'd really like to boost, but it doesn't have alt-text;
* Ask the person if they'd be willing to add alt text so that you can boost their post. Be nice.
* Write the alt-text yourself in a reply to their post, with something like 'adding alt-text here before I boost', then boost it - people often look at replies to see if someone else has added alt-text, and often the OP will add it to their image.
:bob_ross:

2024-06-13 07:49:56

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- and don't have the spoons or are otherwise incapable of writing alt-text, there are options! (Also, please, for the rest of us, don't yell at people about not including alt-text. Be nice, be gentle, be informative.)
You can use the :helpdescribe: emoji in your post to ask for others to help you write alt-text, you can use the #Alt4Me hashtag which people keep an eye on to provide alt-text help, or tag the @ imagecaptionspls@a.gup.pe group, and someone will help you out.
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2024-06-13 07:46:47

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A lot of people on the fediverse won't boost toots with attached media that doesn't have alt-text, because it's not fair to the blind folk in our community and excludes them from the 'social' part of social media. So if you're here to build an audience around your work, it makes sense to make the extra effort to get into the habit of including alt text with your images; you'll get more interaction with your posts that way.
However, if you're a spoonie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoon_theory) -
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2024-06-13 07:44:58

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Alt text for traditional art can feel more daunting, especially for abstract work. It's fine to describe your abstract piece as 'an abstract work of art', and if you piece is meant to symbolise or convey a particular concept you had in mind when creating it, feel free to say that. For example,
'An abstract artwork in black and red ink on white paper, with lines that vary in thickness scrawled in a tangled mess. It's meant to represent how my thoughts feel when I have brain fog.'
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2024-06-13 07:42:25

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For example, 'A colour photo of a dog from the neck up. It's a grey-black short hair dog with white patches that frame its eyes and nose. Its head is cocked slightly and its ears are sticking straight up, and it's looking towards the photographer with an eager expression.'
Cover the most important things first, then you can play with more detail (but don't go wild; remember, people using screen readers have to listen to what you've written).
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2024-06-13 07:39:47

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You have 1500 characters to play with (on default Mastodon, at least), but you don't have to use all of them. If you're low on spoons or aren't sure what to write, just adding 'a photo of a dog' or 'a painting of some trees' is better than nothing.
Once you start getting used to writing descriptive alt text that covers the core elements of the image and conveys the important bits, you can start expanding on that -
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2024-06-13 07:37:56

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If it's a screenshot of text, write out the text as the alt-text. Mastodon has a feature where you can choose to 'detect text from picture' from the image after attaching it. You do often have to clean up the generated text, and it struggles especially with symbols. See attached, and also read the alt-text to see how I've described this attached image.
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https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonart/media_attachments/files/112/608/159/479/554/714/original/937904cbede9ef53.png

2024-06-13 07:33:21

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How To Write Alt-Text:
* You don't need to write an essay, and for artists, you don't need to convey the 'meaning' of your work.
* Is it a photo? Painting? Sketch?
* What media did you use, and what colours are there? Is it a black and white photo, a bright colourful painting, a sketch with pastels?
* What are the most important elements? Is it a photo of a horse, a painting of flower, a sketch of some people?
* What's the tone; is it a moody photo, a calm scene?
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2024-06-13 07:30:09

Reasons for adding alt-text to your images on the fediverse:
* the many blind and partially sighted members of our community will be not be excluded by your toot
* people on poor internet connections, data-restricted mobile devices, or other technical limitations can still get the context of the image you shared
* provide extra context and information perhaps not covered in the main body of your toot, making your toot more engaging
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Next toot, how to write alt-text!

2024-06-13 06:01:59

Announcement for masto.art users!
Re. https://social.growyourown.services/@homegrown/112604623541524800
We have blocked associated domains, and after emailing requesting removal of all .art content, all content from our instance has been removed.
:artcapy2:

2024-06-12 16:26:17

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https://bananachips.club/@nev/112604533813005335

2024-06-12 16:22:52

@npub1q09…pp3j Owner of mastodon.art here. Please remove all of our members' content that you've scraped onto your service.

2024-06-12 07:20:37

Announcement for mastodon.art users:
We are limiting social.tchncs.de following their failure to moderate a blatantly transmisic user after being made aware of several transmisic posts. When I contacted the admin linking the posts and asking if they uphold their own instance rules that prohibit transmisia, the admin responded by demonstrating sealioning behaviour instead of believing the many trans people who had spoken up, and then excused himself from the conversation.
(1/2)

2024-06-06 15:44:48

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2024-06-06 11:11:53

As per https://twoot.site/@bean/112569356391928945 from @npub1mnf…ast9 , please draw the most ridiculous thing with an ass.
#SillyCuratorPrompts #Ridiculass

2024-05-09 10:20:56

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Update: the accounts have now been removed. Since it took over a week to moderate hate speech that was reported by several instances, and it was only moderated in response to .art making the above announcement, we're keeping the limit in place.

2024-05-07 07:32:01

For masto.art members: we have limited fedia.social and will move to suspend in a week. This comes following reports on two users there that have not been actioned by the fedia.social moderators in over a week; one involving a 'free speech' defense that excuses hate speech, the other suicide baiting and poverty shaming. All of these things are against masto.art's rules and we defederate from instances that allow that kind of content.

2024-04-30 06:38:33

If you're looking for a gallery / portfolio site that bans genAI and NFT content, either as an artist (moving from DeviantArt, perhaps XD) or someone looking to commission artists - check out [@banchan](https://mastodon.art/@banchan) at https://banchan.art/beta \o/

2024-04-25 06:57:09

We had enough to cover the server costs this month, but no extra to tip our volunteer mods who are taking donations.
If you'd like to (and are able to) support mastodon.art and the work our mods do in keeping our community safe, you can donate at:
https://patreon.com/mastodonart
https://liberapay.com/Curator/
https://ko-fi.com/mastoart
Or PayPal directly to: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/delsdoodles
:bob_ross: