Bluesky Alt Text Stream

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Post by bobbiechen » Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 11:36 PM UTC

Bluesky Alt Text Stream
bobbiec.github.io

Re: Bluesky Alt Text Stream

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Post by fennec-posix » Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 11:49 PM UTC

This is an interesting insight into what gets posted to Bsky in real-time. Quite like this, very nice!

Re: Bluesky Alt Text Stream

#3

Post by ljsprague » Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 11:59 PM UTC

Perhaps filter out the empty messages?

Re: Bluesky Alt Text Stream

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Post by pfraze » Fri, Sep 26, 2025, 12:20 AM UTC

The entire codebase is an html page with some javascript embedded. view-source:https://bobbiec.github.io/bluesky-alt-text.html

Re: Bluesky Alt Text Stream

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Post by jaflo » Fri, Sep 26, 2025, 12:20 AM UTC

ljsprague wrote: post #3

Perhaps filter out the empty messages?

The page accompanies a blog post about how many images have alt text on Bluesky so empty lines are included to give a feel for how many images do or don't have the descriptions: https://digitalseams.com/blog/image-descriptions-on-bluesky

> This demo is part of Image descriptions on Bluesky: not bad, could be better - see the blog post for more details!

Re: Bluesky Alt Text Stream

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Post by grimgrin » Fri, Sep 26, 2025, 12:26 AM UTC

ljsprague wrote: post #3

Perhaps filter out the empty messages?

An optional filter, I can see it being interesting observing frequency of alt relative to no-alt.

I do think it'd be nice if it didn't scroll the log automatically, IF the user has scrolled at all (looking at backlog). A few ways to go about that

Re: Bluesky Alt Text Stream

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Post by ajithshan001 » Fri, Sep 26, 2025, 12:39 AM UTC

The era of AI shouldn’t require users to enter alt text. AI should be able to provide one.

Re: Bluesky Alt Text Stream

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Post by sprice » Fri, Sep 26, 2025, 12:51 AM UTC

Some fun stuff in here:

> at://did:plc:4zd6mbhgvmjri5rmlsyeq6go/3lzpamhfmfc2d: a mostly naked vivi (she/her) domming a bound matchstick (he/him) in a neon-lit nightclub called PONYBOYS

> at://did:plc:4zd6mbhgvmjri5rmlsyeq6go/3lzpamhfmfc2d: same pic but made absolutely clear that matchstick is into it and consenting :)

Re: Bluesky Alt Text Stream

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Post by evklein » Fri, Sep 26, 2025, 12:56 AM UTC

pfraze wrote: post #4

The entire codebase is an html page with some javascript embedded. view-source: https://bobbiec.github.io/bluesky-alt-text.html

The way god intended

Re: Bluesky Alt Text Stream

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Post by McGlockenshire » Fri, Sep 26, 2025, 12:57 AM UTC

sprice wrote: post #8

Some fun stuff in here: > at://did:plc:4zd6mbhgvmjri5rmlsyeq6go/3lzpamhfmfc2d: a mostly naked vivi (she/her) domming a bound matchstick (he/him) in a neon-lit nightclub called PONYBOYS > at://did:plc:4zd6mbhgvmjri5rmlsyeq6go/3lzpamhfmfc2d: same pic but made absolutely clear that matchstick is into it and consenting :)

bsky recently changed (proposed changing?) their policies on how adult stuff is presented. the wording they've chosen has a specific focus on explicit consent, resulting in having to do ... that.