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Written by Solar 🌄Garden on 2025-01-17 at 08:25

[#]memes especially ones with no #altText

anyone got any idea how to #filter them?

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Written by PaulaToThePeople on 2025-01-17 at 08:30

@wavesculptor Good question.

I have never come across such a feature, but if you find out let me know.

I know there is some code you can change Mastodon with, so media without AltText gets a big colorful border around it. Its good to not accidentally boost such posts, but that way such posts are even more annoying.

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Written by Solar 🌄Garden on 2025-01-17 at 08:46

@PaulaToThePeople Most of my filters are set to collapse rather than hide posts, and I'd probably use a meme filter in the same way.

In fact, what would be absolutely joy-bringing would be a filter that produced:

meme: "any alt-text here"

That is kind-of what is left of /all/ uncached images when I've unintentionally left the browser in #noJavascript mode and gone back to the mastodon tab. So maybe even a bit of code injected into the local browser might do this....

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Written by PaulaToThePeople on 2025-01-17 at 08:50

@wavesculptor Okay, but wouldn't you need AI to distinguis a meme from any other picture?

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Written by Solar 🌄Garden on 2025-01-17 at 09:27

@PaulaToThePeople yes, some more processing would be needed, but #OCR apps were doing that on tiny slow machines when I entered personal computers in the 1980's. The first thing the OCR app does is looks for blocks of text. If the block size ≈ image size, it's essentially a meme. The alt text "recognise text from image" tool on this version of mastodon does just that, so even evaluating "is meme"? shouldn't be too hard on a server, especially if opt-in.

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