@shoq @damon @mastodonmigration

I just post a comment with #AltText with the relevant details because it feels helpful without condescension.

The wonderful experience of people seeing my comment, loading it on the original post as an edit happens and private message me to let me know it was useful to them.

It would be amazing if the ActivityPub or #Mastodon layer would attach #AltText descriptions from comments to a primary post as #CommentAltText, only showing on the primary post when no #AltText is present.

@jonjones @kashaar
#CommentAltText

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"[...] — feeling blissfully invisible yet still fully included, safe in the knowledge that everyone is together and everyone is okay, with all the thrill of being there without the burden of having to be.

Middle English "midding", alternate spelling of "midden". a refuse heap that sits near a dwelling. Pronounced [with enphasis on the 1st syllable] MIDD-ing. "

@jonjones @kashaar #CommentAltText
Photo of a dictionary page defining the word 'midding':

"midding

n. the tranquil pleasure of being near a gathering but not quite in it — hovering on the perimeter of a campfire, talking quietly outside a party, resting your eyes in the back seat of a car listening to friends chatting up front — [...]"

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@welshpixie @AdaShovelace This is the section I was thinking about.
#CommentAltText (couldn't fit it in my client so pasting here):
Image of Mastodon's Trademark info web page, which states:
"Server guidelines

If you run your own Mastodon server using the Mastodon software, [...]:

You may not use the Mastodon word mark, or any similar mark, in your domain name, unless you have written permission from Mastodon gGmbH."