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Cake day: October 16th, 2023

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  • I feel that auto-generated descriptions are going to generally be terrible, even with the new GPT AIs. There’s too much context needed to do a good job to be able to just feed an image into some code and get something useful.

    On the other hand, transcriptions should be able to be done more accurately, particularly with a bit of extra logic to recognise forms like Twitter posts.

    Some database of alt-texts might be possible by scraping for alt-texts and transcriptions from the fediverse, reddit, etc, but a quick search didn’t come up with anything.






  • You’re 100% right, I think we do a lot more to stop content rotting like this. Now it’s half gone, with any contributions from other instances unable to federate, fracturing any more conversation.

    Maybe we need to do two things:

    • ensure that popular instances aren’t single-admin shows (so there needs to be a team with the skills, finances and motivation to run if one or more disappear, or at least the credentials in escrow so someone can step in)
    • have some system to backup/migrate content

    The migration one is tricky, because ActivityPub is very tied to urls. I guess that you could make dummy account for the conversation you brought over, so you’d at least have a read-only record.