@youronlyone Ha! That is so bizarre. 😅
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@clacke I agree with this sentiment, it does feel a roundabout way of looking at it and I haven't dug deeper into the forums to understand more about background or how it will actually appear in the interface.
What I would find interesting is if the idea is a view showing quote posts that is separate from the thread view but easily reachable from the thread view.
It's not unlikely that I would be interested in your tangent if I am reading the thread.
@aral
Wow...
"We want to be able to choose the unethical route without you calling attention to it..."
It's just wild that people go to these lengths to silence anyone holding them accountabile to their own professings.
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@rlpaulprodn Huh. That is odd. Maybe it's a constraint in the app you're using. Sorry to have misled you then. This is how it works on my iPhone.
@rlpaulprodn
My understanding was that you were having trouble uploading to Mastodon and having to retry multiple times. My suggestion is that it may help when you upload to Mastodon to select a smaller image size of the photo you choose from your library.
Making the photo smaller within that step of uploading to Mastodon is what my post explains.
@rlpaulprodn
I have written here about how to do it on an Iphone on image upload. It's two taps :) Not intuitive but simple enough when you know it.
https://axbom.me/notice/AS8jpnx7joSGLHGk5Y
@skalman
Väldigt fint skrivet. Att man blir upprörd över en människa som delar sin sårbarhet på det sättet gör mig än mer ledsen.
@jemostrom
@chrisnoessel Don’t think it’s the word you’re looking for, but I do like the word quiddity. I need to find more opportunity for using it 😊
@rlpaulprodn
Sounds like your instance has some issues :)
On Akkoma I can add and edit alt text when editing a post after the fact. Not sure why Mastodon still doesn’t appear to allow this. It’s a shame.
One thing to consider is reducing the size of your photo before uploading it, as upload challenges may be related to heavy images.
@mjgardner
Awesome, thanks for the clarification, will edit!
@gizmomathboy @w3c
You mean it should show italics, bold and perhaps even link content?
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@quadratur
I understand what you mean but when people were using it for tooltips they were not describing images in the correct way. It created a lot of confusion as to the purpose of alt texts. I don't think I could go as far as calling it a feature ;)
As you rightly point out, title had this purpose.
I agree completely with your observation about exclusive content. I love having access to all alt text visibly here in my Fediverse instance. I'll be making exactly this point in my talk later today.
It's a huge shortcoming in browsers that it's so difficult to view for most people.
@grin I loved trying out Lynx and showing it off in some of my early accessibility talks :)
@janboddez No worries at all, I enjoy discussing and thinking about this.
@janboddez
😊 This is clear-cut to me as all users can not be expected to understand that their comment on a social media post will end up on a blog page. Thus this happens without consent as the understanding is not there unless the social media post itself has a disclaimer. That does not mean it's illegal, just that it's not fair to expect that all users are okay with this.
(Full disclosure, I've implemented tools like this in the past with Twitter, pulling in all mentions of a blog post. I also thought it was cool when not fully considering impact and consequences)
The other interesting issue is that automated stuff like this will mean that the blog owner may have illegal content posted to their page through the same mechanism. Comments can mention third parties by name and use hateful language, or include copyrighted material for example.
I think some of the most common errors of assumption when going ahead with these tools are:
1. It's technically possible, so must be okay.
2. Everybody who posts on social media wants to be seen as broadly and widely as possible in any context
3. If you're here you must accept that your content will be republished all over the place
4. Nobody could possibly be harmed
5. It's legal so there is no problem
6. It's cool…
@janboddez Thanks for sharing! Yes, there could be a lot of work done to improve Privacy By Design in this space. I believe this is where all the excitement around federated social networking may meet a lot of frustration.
@InsertUser Yes, I'm using my own install of Akkoma since a little more than two weeks.
https://akkoma.social/