Reposting somehow drops the text content of the post

[Kilkenni]

Here's a problem.
1 is a post on Mastodon. The image is irrelevant here, I've trimmed it.
2 is a post that RSStT posted on Telegram.
3 is a fragment of the RSS with this post pulled from Mastodon.

Expected result: media:description should be dropped (it's alt text for the image aimed at people with impaired sight), <description> should be used as the text in the post.
(I'm not sure if Telegram supports alt text, but I assume it doesn't. If it does, it still shouldn't replace the source text)

Actual result: <description> is dropped, <media:description> is posted as the text in the post. In other words, actual text in the post is replaced with the alt text from the image. Strangely, hashtags are preserved.

My assumption: On Mastodon, the text precedes the image. On Telegram, the image precedes the text. On both, hashtags usually go in the end. Thus RSStT "ignores" anything that goes before the image (or any other media, probably) - in this case, text from the post. Alt-text is posted as plain text as it "follows" the image. Hashtags before the image are also "omitted", but since they are present as <category> as well, RSStT re-adds them back as hashtags.

<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2025 15:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Grumpy demon і за сумісництвом мій тотем&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;by archapxl(&lt;a href="https://www.deviantart.com/archapxl/art/Malina-pixelart-Wallpaper-1149587262" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"&gt;&lt;span class="invisible"&gt;https://www.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ellipsis"&gt;deviantart.com/archapxl/art/Ma&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="invisible"&gt;lina-pixelart-Wallpaper-1149587262&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://woof.tech/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag"&gt;#&lt;span&gt;art&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://woof.tech/tags/games" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag"&gt;#&lt;span&gt;games&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://woof.tech/tags/Helltaker" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag"&gt;#&lt;span&gt;Helltaker&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://woof.tech/tags/Malina" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag"&gt;#&lt;span&gt;Malina&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://woof.tech/tags/pixelart" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag"&gt;#&lt;span&gt;pixelart&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <media:content url="https://cdn.woof.tech/media_attachments/files/114/433/158/233/965/382/original/4e0708824ec6cb22.jpg" type="image/jpeg" fileSize="107267" medium="image">
        <media:rating scheme="urn:simple">adult</media:rating>
        <media:description type="plain">Grumpy Malina from Helltaker in a somewhat revealing blouse</media:description>
      </media:content>
      <category>art</category>
      <category>games</category>
      <category>helltaker</category>
      <category>Malina</category>
      <category>pixelart</category>

Anything I can do to fix this?

[Kilkenni]

Clarification: I tested it on a post without alt_text for an image, and the original text pulls to Telegram just fine.
It seems only posts with "alt" attribute for media may be affected.
Which is... still not nice, assistive technologies are useful. But it's not as bad as I initially thought.

[Rongronggg9]

This is an upstream issue.
kurtmckee/feedparser#195
See also #120

The upstream is, practically speaking, inactive. Maybe RSStT should vendor a fork with fixes in the codebase. It is unfortunate 🫠

[Kilkenni]

Oh.