

Yeah, it’s much, much better if OPs provide their own transcription. It’s much easier to see that way. Mastodon and Pixelfed both basically yell at you if you don’t do it, and it’s a shame that Lemmy isn’t the same.
For small transcriptions, there’s an “alt text” field in the post itself, and for longer ones, they can be placed into the body of the post.




My ideal hope is that by modelling good behaviour, I can encourage more OPs to provide transcriptions themselves in the body or the alt-text field.
If OPs take my transcriptions and edit it into the body, that’s pretty good too. Especially if more people take up the work so transcriptions get posted on posts that I don’t do myself.
The algorithm is far too fickle for me to have even considered my comment getting upvoted to the top. Good if it happens I guess, but not in my consideration.