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Comment by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF

4 months ago

> a lot of descriptions of the same images it had just shown

This is an accessibility thing that seems to be very popular on Mastodon and I guess the author put it in the prose directly instead of as mouseover text.

It helps for people using screen readers, people who are in text browsers, people who don't load images by default, and funny enough, AI scrapers.

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