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   👩‍🦯The Blind Fraggle (fragglemuppet@fandom.ink)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 04:52:31 JST 👩‍🦯The Blind Fraggle

   • Andre Louis
   • Simon Jaeger

   @FreakyFwoof @simon I mean I know the culture has changed now, but back in the old forum days...

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     👩‍🦯The Blind Fraggle (fragglemuppet@fandom.ink)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 05:11:02 JST 👩‍🦯The Blind Fraggle

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     • Andre Louis
     • Tech Singer
     • Simon Jaeger

     @techsinger @FreakyFwoof @simon Not unless you change it every 5 minutes like someone I knew. Otherwise, the way things work now, I can see why it can be necessary to make different ones as backups or to sign up for some different things.

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     Tech Singer (techsinger@tweesecake.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 05:11:03 JST Tech Singer

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     • Andre Louis
     • Simon Jaeger

     @Fragglemuppet @FreakyFwoof @simon Multiple email accounts for one person have been more or less standard for decades. Is there anything dishonest about that, in your view? Obviously, I don't mean if you use your secondary email account to scam people, I'm just asking if the having of multiple email accounts is dishonest.

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     👩‍🦯The Blind Fraggle (fragglemuppet@fandom.ink)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 05:37:36 JST 👩‍🦯The Blind Fraggle

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     • Andre Louis
     • Tech Singer
     • Simon Jaeger
     • Bruce Toews

     @Bruce @techsinger @simon @FreakyFwoof Me too. People talk about how the fedi is so different and so much better, and in a technical sense, and sometimes in a social sense it is, but it's a lot more similar than most people want to admit.

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     Bruce Toews (bruce@allovertheplace.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 05:37:40 JST Bruce Toews

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     • Andre Louis
     • Tech Singer
     • Simon Jaeger

     @techsinger @simon @Fragglemuppet @FreakyFwoof I know this is going to anger some, but I see it, and treat it, as a Twitter replacement with good and bad points.

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     Tech Singer (techsinger@tweesecake.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 05:37:41 JST Tech Singer

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     • Andre Louis
     • Simon Jaeger

     @simon @Fragglemuppet @FreakyFwoof Indeed. I honestly think each Masto instance is a bit like a developed forum with the local timeline being a kind of main area and all the different conversations being like threads.

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     Simon Jaeger (simon@procrastodon.net)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 05:37:42 JST Simon Jaeger

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     • Andre Louis

     @Fragglemuppet @FreakyFwoof ... You could have an account on every individual forum and that was fine. Now that's still fine, but all the forums talk to each other.

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     👩‍🦯The Blind Fraggle (fragglemuppet@fandom.ink)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 05:46:25 JST 👩‍🦯The Blind Fraggle

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     • Andre Louis
     • Tech Singer
     • Simon Jaeger
     • Bruce Toews

     @Bruce @simon @techsinger @FreakyFwoof Not as much as they used to, but yes, a lot are.

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     Bruce Toews (bruce@allovertheplace.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 05:46:26 JST Bruce Toews

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     • Andre Louis
     • Tech Singer
     • Simon Jaeger

     @simon @Fragglemuppet @techsinger @FreakyFwoof Are a lot of sighted people on Mastodon doing the alt-text thing? I ask because I don't actually know any.

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     Simon Jaeger (simon@procrastodon.net)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 05:46:27 JST Simon Jaeger

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     • Andre Louis
     • Tech Singer
     • Bruce Toews

     @Fragglemuppet @Bruce @techsinger @FreakyFwoof In a technical sense it's better because anyone can have their own spot in the fediverse, and either invite people or keep it to themselves.
     In a cultural sense it seems better because people actually recognize the existence of others unlike themselves, whether that's people who might appreciate content warnings or alt text.
     The user experience is very Twitter-like, and the blind community basically migrated off of one and onto the other, so that's going to feel very similar. But I used to look at mainstream Twitter sometimes and while there was good content there too, it was a lot more full of low-effort garbage. If I tried to advocate for alt text, I'd get replies from people who either didn't understand why I was asking for it (even though I specified in the post) or didn't care. If I replied to people asking questions about blindness, I'd get shorthand disbelief. Twitter used to only allow 140 characters and I think it trained people to stop caring about what someone had to say after the 141th character.
     So I feel like it's more accurate to say Mastodon is like the best of Twitter. And a lot of people who were in specific interest-based bubbles or the disability space didn't experience the worst Twitter had to offer.

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     Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿 (lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 07:46:15 JST Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿

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     • Andre Louis
     • Tech Singer
     • Simon Jaeger
     • Bruce Toews

     @Bruce @simon @Fragglemuppet @techsinger @FreakyFwoof I certainly do. Every time. Also, I encourage those new to the Fediverse to follow https://mastodon.social/@alt_text as they train themselves to do the right thing.