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Fedi.Tips
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •p.s. The name "Vernissage" may cause some confusion as it was used for two totally different projects, so here's an explanation to hopefully make things clearer:
- The developer makes two Fediverse things: an independent photography platform called Vernissage, and a third party Pixelfed app called Impressia
- The Pixelfed app used to be called "Vernissage" but is now called "Impressia"
- If you want more info about Impressia, you can follow it at @impressia
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Faraiwe
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •p.p.s. People are going to inevitably ask how this compares to Pixelfed. This is my take:
- Pixelfed is an Instagram-style social network platform based around images and short videos
- Vernissage is a Flickr-style photography platform for exploring still photos as an art form
Please feel free to correct if this is wrong.
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Sam Clemente
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •This has always been how I think about it
While both platforms would probably argue they're both, I think this is where each product shines and this is how I use them personally
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in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Tim J
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to Tim J • • •@timtfj
I'm not sure but guessing the French/English pronunciation.
Question for @vernissage perhaps?
BTW for anyone wondering what it means: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernissa…
Vernissage - Wikipedia
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Tim J
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to Tim J • • •I'm not a linguist but would guess this is due to relatively recent influence of French art world.
(Whereas something like "homage" is medieval and has an English pronunciation /ˈhɒmɪdʒ/ )
Tim J
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to Tim J • • •Tim J
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to Tim J • • •@timtfj
And writers etc. Amazing to hear about that period.
maya
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to maya • • •@zenmaya
It's definitely problematic but I don't think it's core to the functioning of the platform? I am assuming that server owners don't have to activate any AI stuff?
@vernissage would be able to comment more.
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maya
in reply to D3 • • •D3
in reply to maya • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to D3 • • •To be clear, I loathe AI and consider it an enormous con that is corroding society and burning the planet.
However, if people aren't on the Fedi then the centralised platforms they're using instead are definitely going to be using AI in much worse ways that cannot be opted out of.
If Vernissage is keeping the AI strictly optional so that it can be turned off by an instance, then the best path forward seems to be using Vernissage on such AI-free instances.
Robert Kingett
in reply to maya • • •D3
in reply to Robert Kingett • • •Ruanjoma
in reply to maya • • •It's a tool, and nobody has to use it. I personally love it. Many of my pictures on Vernissage.photos would otherwise have much worse alt text.
maya
in reply to Ruanjoma • • •Ruanjoma
in reply to maya • • •Okay, then I didn't understand alt text and wouldn't know what else to write there. I meant it should say what's in the picture 🤷🏼♂️
maya
in reply to Ruanjoma • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to maya • • •I'm not visually impaired, but going by advice from @WeirdWriter and others apparently the main problem is AI doesn't have any understanding of anything, it just thoughtlessly describes everything even if it's totally irrelevant, and can hit people with a wall of irrelevant description. It's easier to understand an alt text if a human has written what's actually relevant and significant about the image.
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Robert Kingett
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •@zenmaya @ruanjoma Bingo. Do you know if they can use hashtags such as #AltForMe? But you nailed it. We have apps and tools with AI built into the apps and or our screen readers but from my perspective AI alt text is pretty useless. especially since what people usually generate when they generate AI alt text is mostly worse than our apps but in most cases it is exactly what FediTips describes. Yes, it’s giving us information, but is it useful information?
One example I can think of right now is a comic strip described by alt bot. Not only was incorrect by saying there were three panels instead of four panels, it just mindlessly described the panels. It would describe who was in the panels, and it would describe what they were saying, but it described it in such a way to where every panel seem to be very disconnected from
... Show more...@zenmaya @ruanjoma Bingo. Do you know if they can use hashtags such as #AltForMe? But you nailed it. We have apps and tools with AI built into the apps and or our screen readers but from my perspective AI alt text is pretty useless. especially since what people usually generate when they generate AI alt text is mostly worse than our apps but in most cases it is exactly what FediTips describes. Yes, it’s giving us information, but is it useful information?
One example I can think of right now is a comic strip described by alt bot. Not only was incorrect by saying there were three panels instead of four panels, it just mindlessly described the panels. It would describe who was in the panels, and it would describe what they were saying, but it described it in such a way to where every panel seem to be very disconnected from the other. The panels were described in verbose detail, but everything was disconnected from each other. Not only that, but I learned later that it didn’t even describe what the characters were doing/wearing, killing the joke. Alt text is just as much an experience as when you took the picture. The alt bot couldn’t make connections from one panel to the other. Each description of the panels was very verbose, yet it left out a lot of crucial information for me to understand the joke, the setting, a lot more things. Personal alt text will always be better because it forces people to live in the moment. It forces people to bring us along with them. Even if they think they’re writing is mediocre or not good enough, I will always get more out of personal alt text
Ruanjoma
in reply to Robert Kingett • • •@WeirdWriter @zenmaya
Hi Robert,
thank you so much for explaining the problem from an affected person's perspective.
First, a quick note about Vernissage, which was the original topic of this thread. I consider it the best platform for photos in the Fediverse. The parent instance offers, among other things, the option to generate and customize alt text with AI support, and to my knowledge, other instances can also disable this option for themselves.
Ruanjoma
in reply to Ruanjoma • • •@WeirdWriter @zenmaya
The question that arises in this discussion is: What should such alt text look like to be useful? We're talking about a platform for photography. While the comics example makes sense to me, I can't yet translate it to a photo.
I don't like doing pointless things, so I need an example of what proper alt text should look like to be helpful.
Could someone please look at the alt text in this example and correct it?
vernissage.photos/@Ruanjoma/75…
Ruanjoma
2025-12-02 23:08:07
Robert Kingett
in reply to Ruanjoma • • •Alt Text as Poetry
alt-text-as-poetry.netFedi.Tips
in reply to Robert Kingett • • •In a way this is perhaps something that techy sighted people can relate to:
A long time ago I used to handle a lot of tech support calls over the phone, so just audio. I needed people to describe to me what they saw, and the calls worked best when the people described just the relevant details.
AI/LLM alt text is the equivalent of difficult tech support callers who tell you the colour of their computer's mouse but not what is on their screen.
Robert Kingett
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Vernissage
in reply to Robert Kingett • • •Oliver
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Stefan
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Absolutely is this project called
@vernissage way more stable and ready to use as #SoloPixelfed will ever be. 😉
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