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

honestly the reason I am leaving twitter (as it is a process that's my finished yet) isn't that Elon took over, or that it has started openly catering to nazis rather than covering that fact with fig leaves...

it's that finally a critical mass of people with sufficiently diverse backgrounds was moving to a place I like better.

that's it. I haven't enjoyed my time on twitter for years. it has been bad and dangerous for marginalised people this whole time.

it's just that people were there.

I finally linearised the keycaps. Cc @library_squirrel

https://nitter.net/XRNL_Legal/status/1598733007371866123#m

I recently posted about how I prefer to see #hashtags positioned within #Mastodon content, as a #ScreenReader user. That post has picked up some momentum, and my thanks to everyone that has shared, favourited and/or engaged with it via thoughtful discourse.

I'd like to highlight that screen reader users vary widely in their consumption habits and preferences, and my views are nothing but personal predilections. Regardless of the approach you take, you are expressing an interest in making your content as #accessible and #readable as possible to an audience who experience the world differently to how you do. This is heartening and refreshing to many Mastodon newcomers, and extremely appreciated.

Accessibility is not a binary state, and you are not doing it "wrong" if you put your hashtags inline, or at the end, or both! There are many more impactful aspects to #SocialMedia #equity, like #ImageDescriptions (also known as #AltText), which are in abundance on Mastodon and a joy to read.

#a11y #inclusion #InclusiveDesign #ScreenReaders

In my experience, abusive and toxic people tend to make a bit deal about not being defined by their past actions, that there's some sort of separation between who they are and how they regularly treat people.

That's a cop-out. That's an attempt to sidestep the reality of their patterns of behavior.

Something I think all survivors of interpersonal abuse and/or toxicity understand, is that after a certain point, questions of whether someone is a good person or a bad person, has good character or bad character, is virtuous or sinful becomes irrelevant.

What matters is their patterns of behavior.

Anybody have any holiday gift ideas this year they particularly like? Bonuses for:

* stuff that gets used up
* alternately, things that aren't weird to acquire second-hand for gifts
* small or local-to-you producers
* "Oh I wouldn't have thought of that", off-the-wall
* not category-generic ("books", "art prints")

BREAKING: German government announces new service, in collaboration with train operator DB, which allows residents to receive train information by fax for the first time.

A lot of Mastodon instance admins are either getting their first hosting bill or getting a very increased bill from extreme growth and usage. Some may be experiencing bill shock.

Please make sure your paying/supporting them!

Twitter was free because you were the product. Mastodon doesn't work this way.

Many instances list a patreon or donation links on their about page.

Hey all, some colleagues in our local UX professionals group are seeking UX or design-specific Masto servers to join as a first server; any pointers?

Boosts appreciated!

OpenAI: Don't worry, #ChatGPT was trained to be safe.

The internet: we'll see about that https://twitter.com/NickEMoran/status/1598101579626057728