Bluesky users lack clear controls for image posts
Bluesky users who rely on alt text or want to filter image posts lack clear, dependable controls. One user reports that a community labeler for hiding posts without alt text has stopped keeping up; another cannot tell whether a post has alt text from the interface. A separate request to hide Twitter screenshots fits the broader need for image-post controls, while hiding images on ordinary webpages is an adjacent but less closely related use case.
For bluesky users who need accessible or more controllable image feeds. Mentioned from Oct 2023 to May 2026 on Bluesky, GitHub and Stack Exchange.
4 different people described this problem in 4 separate discussions.
- Indie fit
- 2.0/10
- Pain
- 5.5/10
- Frequency
- 5.8/10
- Willingness to pay
- 0.0/10
- Momentum
- 5.0/10
- Who pays
- Consumers
- Competition
- Medium
- Build difficulty
- Medium
What people said
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The labeler that hides it hasn't been working for a long while now and is struggling even more with the influx of new users. Something baked in would be a boon for accessibility for the community that relies on it
Dang, I wish there were a better way to read this, I can't tell from bluesky's interface whether this has alt text
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