Add image descriptions to the metadata of a picture
Image descriptions on the fediverse are widely used (and that's a good thing), but they have to be filled in each time again and when someone downloads the image to upload later (or possibly somewhere else), the image description is gone.
An idea I've seen passing by on fedi on a regular basis is to add the image description to the EXIF data of the image and use that to already prefill the description field in the FE after uploading an image.
Basically:
- Upload a picture
- Pleroma-be checks if the EXIF data already has an image description
- Pleroma-fe automatically pre-fills the image description field with what Pleroma-be found in the EXIF data
- People can change the description in the fe if they want
- When posting, the EXIF data in the picture is also updated to the newest description
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Fe part: pleroma-fe!1399 (merged) -
Read EXIF data when uploaded: !3535 (merged) -
Update EXIF data when post is made
Edited by Ilja