mastodon (2)

Paul

More Mastodon - about vision.

Keeping Mastodon friendly for others There are many vision-impaired people on Mastodon / the Fediverse. Just like in the real world out there. For those, there are special screenreaders that read out the posts and toots, which is great. For that reason, Mastodon instances offer the option to add text to images, and everyone's encouraged to do so. If a screenreader only says "image" or not even that when going over your post, that takes…

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Paul

Mastodon and other difficulties

Twitter The Twitter exodus is a fact. At the same time, Mastodon is a puzzle. Many people are scared. So many servers, waiting lists, shit stuff, don't-knows and more. "Mastodon" is a collection of computers that are interconnected. So if you join e.g. Mastodon.world, you can still talk to everyone on all other servers, like Mastodon.ai, writing.exchange or toot.community. Yes, these are actual names on actual servers. You find subjects by looking for them through…

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Mastodon - Diaspora