@ᴚ uɐᗡ It does support alt-text, technically speaking. It just doesn't have Mastodon's easy-peasy alt-text entry field. And I think if you want to have alt-text on Friendica, you must not handle images the Mastodon way by uploading them to a post draft as file attachments, but you must upload them to your file storage and then embed them, blog-style.
Once you have the image embedding code in your post draft, you must manually graft the alt-text into that code. I'd walk you through it step by step if I could, but I don't know how exactly the code in Friendica looks like.
I can tell you what it looks like and how it works on Hubzilla, though, and since Hubzilla is Friendica's descendant, it should be similar, only that Friendica probably still uses [url=][/url] and [img=][/img] instead of [zrl=][/zrl] and [zmg=][/zmg].
So when you embed an image into a post on Hubzilla, the code looks like this: [zrl=URL of image viewing page in your file storage][zmg=WidthxHeight]URL of Image file[/zmg][/zrl]
The first thing you do is cut the image file URL and paste it over the image size in the [zmg=] tag. The image size is usually quite unnecessary, and it degrades the quality of the image.
[zrl=URL of image viewing page in your file storage][zmg=WidthxHeight]URL of Image file[/zmg][/zrl]<br></br> ─────┬────── ────────┬────────<br></br> └───◀───◀───◀───┘<br></br>[zrl=URL of image viewing page in your file storage][zmg=URL of Image file][/zmg][/zrl]
Now you've got a place for the alt-text, namely in-between [zmg=] and [/zmg]. [zrl=URL of image viewing page in your file storage][zmg=URL of Image file]Alt-text[/zmg][/zrl]
On Hubzilla, this works absolutely well. I've done it myself countless times already.
I think Friendica works largely the same, only that it uses [url=][/url] instead of [zrl=][/zrl] and [img=][/img] instead of [zmg=][/zmg].
if the process is really that involved and if they can fix it
Well, that process is geared towards what Friendica actually is. And Friendica is neither a Twitter-style micro-blogging project nor inspired by Mastodon. It's almost 6 years older than Mastodon, designed as a Facebook alternative and meant to be perfectly capable of long-form macro-blogging.
@dannotdaniel No, Friendica is not a software for everyone, nor is it a software that makes you do everything right away. It's not particularly complicated, but it's certainly not as straightforward as Mastodon. That's the great thing about Mastodon, that's the great thing about Friendica. Diversity is the most important and beautiful thing about the Fediverse
Mastodon isn't flawlessly straightforward. Friendica isn't flawlessly straightforward. Diaspora isn't flawlessly straightforward. Twitter sure as hell wasn't. Never ran into any software anywhere that was.
Lemmy, for example, is the easiest software to use in the Fediverse, even more so than Mastodon, but the audience culture is more akin to Twitter than Reddit: so Mastodon is generally easier to use.
Friendica for example, compared to Hubzilla is very simple, but in terms of user experience it is objectively complex.
@claralistensprechen3rd@dannotdaniel I am very happy with Friendica and I administer an entire instance (poliverso.org), but I recognize that it is not for everyone and Mastodon lends itself better to immediate communication, without giving up some advanced functions such as CW and alternative text.
This is why everyone must try different software to find the one that best suits their personality and way of communicating
@taur10 I just learned about that apparently that's because Mastodon did something new and different, co-opting the summary field or something
so apparently it doesn't really make sense for them to change that on friendico because you still need a summary field that have to add a whole new one
it would be nice if they could figure out the alt text thing now and make that easy
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