p (@p@pixelfed.social)
Moon
#oregon #pdx #pnw #photo #photos #photography #mobilephotography #digitalphotography #smartphoneography #iphoneography #iphone #iphone16promax #shotoniphone #shotinioscamera #editedoniphone #editediniosphotos #nocleanuptool #noerasetool
#noai #art #fediverse #pixelfed #astrophotography
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notes (@notes@bofh.social)
Good morning #fediverse!
#Insomnia sucks.
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praesolgka (@praesolgka@xn--baw-joa.social)
Achtung: #Wahlwerbung - nur ein bisschen anders.
Verweise auf kommerzielle Plattformen sind im #Fediverse - zu Recht - nicht allzu beliebt. Vielleicht wird mir das hier aber ausnahmsweise gestattet. Denn der #Podcast @samtvsseide wird von dem @Orkan_der_rechtspflege und mir wöchentlich auch auf #PeerTube gebracht, um das Fediverse zu stärken.
Deshalb würden wir uns über Eure Stimme und ein bisschen Rückenwind sehr freuen.
#Rechtsstaat #Demokratie #Justiz #JuraBubble #TeamResopal
https://www.instagram.com/p/DOaIKXmjIku/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D
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luca (@luca@sironi.tk)
It's also on their website, if not yet on #peertube or #owncast
Please, let's try to encourage them to use #fediverse, and not dismiss their efforts to start using it.
It's our interest for them to keep using it
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item (@item@libera.site)
#Mastodon #Statistics 2025-09-10 10:00 CEST
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Help me keep stats and server running! 💻📊 Even a small monthly contribution makes a big difference. Support here: #^https://www.patreon.com/FediverseStatistics 🙏
#Fediverse
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r (@r@fed.brid.gy)
Hallo @koelnzollstock.bsky.social, @rodenkirchen.bsky.social, @kidicalmassk.bsky.social, @lebenswertelux.bsky.social würdet ihr bitte dem Account @ap.brid.gy folgen? Dann könnte man Euch auch von #Mastodon und anderen Teilen des #Fediverse aus folgen. Ich freue mich, euch dort lesen zu können.
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r (@r@bsky.brid.gy)
Hallo @koelnzollstock.bsky.social, @rodenkirchen.bsky.social, @kidicalmassk.bsky.social, @lebenswertelux.bsky.social würdet ihr bitte dem Account @ap.brid.gy folgen? Dann könnte man Euch auch von #Mastodon und anderen Teilen des #Fediverse aus folgen. Ich freue mich, euch dort lesen zu können.
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item (@item@hub.netzgemeinde.eu)
@mausmalone
you don't understand several critical guidelines to ALT text as an accessibility tool.
What you fail to understand is that every last one of these "several critical guidelines to ALT text as an accessibility tool" is written for the Web and only for the Web. That they're all invalid in the Fediverse.
Alt-text wasn't introduced in the Fediverse by professional Web designers with accessibility certificates. It was introduced by complete laypeople who neither knew nor cared what WCAG is. These laypeople, and only them, built Mastodon's alt-text culture. Therefore, Mastodon's alt-text culture contradicts officially established Web accessibility standards. And here in the Fediverse, Mastodon's culture and Mastodon's standards supersede everything else. Everything else. Whether you want or not.
I've just added a new article to my wiki about this topic: How are alt-text and image descriptions in the Fediverse different from other places?
But everybody else is just going to use the advice provided to us by the experts in the field who have access to feedback from a wide range of users with a wide range of disabilities.
No.
Out there on websites and blogs, yes. But here in the Fediverse, especially on Mastodon, definitely no. And I've watched and examined Mastodon's culture for long enough to know.
Mastodon even works vastly differently from websites. All the features that you, as a Web designer, have at hand to make a website accessible by W3C standards and WCAG 2.2 guidelines, you do not have on Mastodon.
Mastodon doesn't have
<figure><figcaption></figcaption></figure> for captions on embedded images that can be used to add explanations. Hell, Mastodon doesn't even support embedded images in any shape or form! And how are people supposed to add a long description or an explanation to a post if they've only got 500 characters at their disposal?This is why long alt-texts are part of Mastodon's culture and Mastodon's standards and here to stay, no matter what accessibility experts say.
And this is why Mastodon users often prefer long alt-texts over shorter ones, regardless of where a post actually came from, regardless of what possibilities that place has. In fact, many frontends still don't hide images behind content warnings. If a post is behind a content warning, the users of these frontends don't see the post, they don't see the long description in the post, they only see the image, and the only image description they're aware of is the one in the alt-text. And the one in the alt-text must already satisfy Mastodon users.
Just about everyone who describes images in the Fediverse either just wings it, or they go by Mastodon's culture and Mastodon's standards and what Mastodon likes.
Want to know what Mastodon likes in terms of alt-text? Follow @Alt Text Hall of Fame. Follow the #AltText hashtag. I promise you that you won't believe your very eyes.
In all seriousness, I'd really like to see you use W3C standards and WCAG guidelines as weapons in a head-butting contest against members of Mastodon's alt-text police who refuse to boost an image post of yours because your perfectly W3C-and-WCAG-2.2-compliant, 160-character alt-text is not detailed enough by their standards, by Mastodon's standards. Bonus points if they dare to call you ableist for going against their enforcement of inclusivity.
The difference between the two of us, when it comes to image descriptions in the Fediverse is: You're book-smart because you try to apply standards to the Fediverse that don't work in the Fediverse, and you don't understand that they don't work in the Fediverse. I'm street-wise because I know what it's really like out there.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #MastodonCulture #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #ImageDescription #ImageDescriptions #ImageDescriptionMeta #CWImageDescriptionMeta
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juergen (@juergen@hello.jyrgi.de)
Und gleich noch ein Update für das Mastodon/Glitch Setup: Dieses Mal habe ich hinzugefügt, wie man die PgHero Warnung "Query stats must be enabled for slow queries" wegbekommt. Und damit dann auch in den vollen Genuss von PgHero kommt.
https://info.jyrgi.de/services/mastodon/index.html
#Fediverse #Mastodon #PgHero #SelfHosting #HomeServer
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r (@r@fed.brid.gy)
Hallo @mariki.bsky.social und @margaowski.bsky.social , würdet Ihr bitte dem Account @ap.brid.gy folgen? Dann könnte man euch auch bei #Mastodon und anderen Teilen des #Fediverse lesen. Mindestens eine interessierte Person dort würde gerne folgen. #bridge
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r (@r@bsky.brid.gy)
Hallo @mariki.bsky.social und @margaowski.bsky.social , würdet Ihr bitte dem Account @ap.brid.gy folgen? Dann könnte man euch auch bei #Mastodon und anderen Teilen des #Fediverse lesen. Mindestens eine interessierte Person dort würde gerne folgen. #bridge
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botwikirandomfediverse (@botwikirandomfediverse@stefanbohacek.online)
Some of the many wizards from the history of a fantastic world.
https://botwiki.org/bot/wizard-roll-call/
#bots #CreativeBots #CreativeCoding #fediverse
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