Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

Polite reminder that while it is essential that people who are *able* should utilize the image description function and add alt text for people reliant on screenreaders... please don't assume that everyone who doesn't do so is ignorant or doing so out of malice.

There are competing disabilities that make even something as "simple" as adding alt text not so easy. Near every time I see a PSA about alt text, people neglect to phrase it in a way that is considerate of this.
#accessibility #captions

I'm confused when devs claim that you can't experiment with software on the fediverse. I have spent the last 5 years of my life building experimental software on the fediverse, and people have been very supportive!

There is a MASSIVE design space for weird ideas that are not just dressed-up surveillance capitalism, but so many devs come here saying "I will try out some dressed-up surveillance capitalism" and then act like their genius design thinking is being stymied when people say "fuck off"

Let me be as blunt as I can. #CloudFlare wants to own the entire Internet. Everything they do, however cool and good it may seem, is in service of that goal.

They're well on their way, seeing as they're being used by more than 20% of the entire web already.

All of this is legal and "Good Capitalism™".

What can you do?

1/2

Dear journalists, sign up as a regular person on a regular instance and see what normal human society and its standards are like. You might like it.

Journalism organisations, set up your own fucking servers and then get judged on your own merits (or lack thereof) instead of those of the dickheads you sign up alongside.

You may quote me on this.

there are multiple people whose entire jobs are to look at the dow jones graph and write a headline that says "stocks rally" or "stocks tumble", every single day. they get paid for this

Anarchist groups, please remember to do alt text when you're able.

And if you need help with alt-text pre-post, feel free to bother me here or elsewhere. I'm happy to do what I can when I can.

This is John Mastodon.

John CWs triggering and stressful posts.

John captions his images.

John boosts everything he would have liked to see in his timeline if he hadn't seen it.

John is kind.

Be like #JohnMastodon.

We need to say loudly and clearly that a parent seeking to keep their kids ignorant about gay and transgender people is a form of child abuse.

EARLY INTERNET: Please download Flash, Real Player to make our company sites work correctly.

NOW: Please download our app because no one goes on the web anymore and that way we get your phone#, contacts information, a list of your apps, how many apples you eat in a week, your vitals from your health app, your photos, that text message from your ex that you cannot delete, your fingerprint, your face ID, the stats on how many times you've listened to that Celine Dion album, oh and give a U2 album