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willow
oh yea also if you do support gifs there are gonna be a billion results for “alt” for every user lol
willowMay 29, 2025
bluesky social-app prefixes gif alt text with a different string depending on the source (tenor or user). when gif embed posts are shown, the alt text is parsed to check for this prefix. if a user created it, the alt text is displayed. otherwise, it is not. // Kind of a hack. We needed some way to distinguish these. const USER_ALT_PREFIX = 'Alt: ' const DEFAULT_ALT_PREFIX = 'ALT: ' https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/blob/main/src/lib/gif-alt-text.ts#L1
sometimes i’m reminded of the horrors of Alt and ALT