I love the mastodon image captioning feature because there are a lot of good uses even for sighted users

- when federation / the other instance / your router fails & the image won't load

- explaining visual jokes while "keeping the medium intact"

- naming a visual symbol you /think/ people will know about but maybe not, so they can look it up & read more about it

- noting 'what to look for' when it's unclear

- translating an image in another language while still letting it speak for itself

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@valenoern i've been learning other languages lately and making a lot of bilingual jokes, so i'm thankful for captioning so i can annotate jokes like awoo.space/@typhlosion/1035804 in a graceful way

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