At the very least to describe what the various communities are for. There seem to be many “general-purpose” communities and I do not understand the difference between them, and there are also communities that seem to be duplicates of one another, namely /c/hexbear, /c/den, and /c/feedback.
Additionally, I believe having a wiki blurb for common “emoji” would be beneficial. Who is the person in the image? What is their politics? Why is their image immortalized on our platform? What are some of the common usages of the emoji in terms of communicating a message or emotion through shorthand? Often I am faced with comments that I find incomprehensible due to the use of an emoji that I do not understand.
I think it would be difficult to make something that does a good job of describing the emoji, in the way of answering all the questions in the post, while being actually good as alt text. Though, having good alt text can sometimes be useful, for example it might tell the name of the person in the image so you can go look them up.
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That makes sense! Certainly it would be far smaller than a wiki, but might help alleviate confusion.
Can’t alt text be a link? That would be best, I’d think.
Not as far as I know.
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