Never gonna give you up never gonna let you down… Fuck how is this my brains first thought, thats insane.
Seriously I didn’t even need the hint. My first impression when I saw all those empty letters was that there’s no way I can guess this. Take a stab at it anyway, shed a tear as I realized that I guessed it first fucking try. Only then I see the hint. I think Rick Astley secretly controls society.
How does one see alt text? I’ve seen people reference it on here, but I have no idea how to see it
In the Lemmy web UI in a browser, clicking the third button from the left (from the left it’s the upvote, downvote, then the page with a turned corner looking thing) will show the source code for a message. Below it’s colored green after having pressed it:
The “Alt text” is the part between the straight brackets, before the URL in the parentheses. So “img1”, “img2”, and “img3” in the screenshot - see how original they are!?:-P
I don’t know if there is a way you’re supposed to be able to do it, but one thing you can do is right-click the image and pick Inspect from the context menu, which will open a panel with the HTML of the image highlighted, and part of that will be the alt text if there is any.
Also I have a Firefox extension that adds “Copy Alt text” to the context menu when you right-click an image. I’ve used that and pasted into a text editor, which usually works as well.
Both of those are inconvenient, but at least you can find it. But there should be a button on the image to view it easily like there is on Mastodon.
Did anyone else get it without even noticing the hint at the bottom?
Yep. If you’re on the internet for long enough, you pretty much develop a sixth sense for when you’re being rickrolled. As soon as I saw that ‘Never’ fit, I knew what was up.
MJ
