toot.pics

View Mastodon media descriptions in any app

21 months ago

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Justin Michael

@VioletPixel@mastodon.social

It not always easy to view media descriptions ("alt text") on Mastodon, so I made toot.pics to solve that problem.

You can add toot.pics to your device's share sheet using the instructions on the site. This makes media descriptions easy to view in any app that supports sharing posts.

More details are on toot.pics. If you have any questions or notice anything amiss please let me know!

An iPhone screenshot of the Ivory app, a Mastodon client, showing a single post with an image of a cat. A red arrow is pointing to the share icon.

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The share sheet is now displayed over the post. A red arrow points to a "toot.pics" option in the share sheet.

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The toot.pics site is now open to the post, which displays the post and media descriptions in full.

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