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@mathowie You... screencap yourself? 🤔

@tyil @mathowie I guess he'd quote tooted if the function was enabled on his instance, but it's hella real and less than a year old: https://xoxo.zone/@mathowie/113435015190603325

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I hate to say it but our canary is now Jimmy Kimmel. If anything happens to him in the next four years, we’ve hit full blown fascism and need to leave the mine immediately

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@Mabande @mathowie Just seems a little sad to have to quote yourself and make the content less accessible at the same time 😕

Fun fact, pretty much all #Fediverse software other than #Mastodon have been able to quote post for years 😉 But there's other options that don't turn very accessible text into less accessible imagery, such as boosting/retooting, or just copy-pasting it into a new toot.

@tyil @mathowie Just copying it into a new toot doesn't convey the holy heck-ness of realizing you're a modern day prophet, and screenshotting with an adequate alt text is probably contextually better than self-boosting too.

@Mabande @mathowie

realizing you're a modern day prophetThose are some very particular words to put there.screenshotting with an adequate alt text is probably contextually better than self-boosting tooNot for searches, and thus not for actually finding the post. I guess it stands out a bit more because it takes up more screen estate. It also takes up more bandwidth so if you hate people with slow Internet its great perhaps.

@tyil Untagging @mathowie after this.
Yes, that's some particular words. Used specifically to describe the meaning I saw in the toot, cause it was obviously not to point out how a rigorously studied threshold of what is fascism had been crossed ^__^
If I search "from:@mathowie canary" I get two toots: the original and the "welp" one, so no, it doesn't break search.
It's going from 0 to 100 pretty quick to state someone hates people with slow internet just because they had an image in their post.

@Mabande @mathowie Its going from 0 to 100 pretty quickly to label someone a prophet too. I guess "caring so little you don't even consider they could exist" and "hating" are two different things, so I'll give you that one.

@tyil This is honestly the funniest thing today ^___^

A couple of questions:
Do you know the difference between literally and figuratively?
Do you know what humour is? (I'm not asking if you think all humour is funny, I'm asking if you know about the concept of humour.)

A random dude posted a screenshot of an old shitpost cause it kinda aligned with current events, it got boosted beyond his mutuals and now you're in his mentions arguing about him not respecting people's Internet connections 🤷

Do you know the difference between literally and figuratively?I do.Do you know what humour is?I do.A random dudePosted something dumb and I called it dumb. You can be upset about it if you so desire I guess.

@tyil So, you're basically the average troll then. Good to know.

@Mabande For someone who asks other people if they know the meaning of certain words, you seem to be throwing around words you don't know the definition of yourself quite liberally.

@tyil It's just that: if you know the meaning of figuratively, and what humour is and still manage to believe that the use of "prophet" is literal, _and_ complain about someone not considering other people's bandwidth by using a sceenshot, _and_ falsely claim it unsearcheable, _and_ defend your reply-guying by changing your stance to "his post was stupid", then you have to be trolling.
By intent or just by lack of reason is irrelevant, the result is the same and it's weird behaviour nonetheless.

if you know the meaning of figuratively, and what humour is and still manage to believe that the use of "prophet" is literalYou could've just said you meant it in a non-literal way, but at no point you even remotely implied it to be an attempt at humour.complain about someone not considering other people's bandwidth by using a sceenshotBecause they do not consider that aspect. Its very common for someone in a "rich" country to not understand that there's people all around the world, and not always with high quality Internet connections available.falsely claim it unsearcheableGood thing I never claimed that! I said it makes it harder to find and less accessible, which are still both true, which I guess is why you need to twist my words.defend your reply-guying by changing your stance to "his post was stupid",Anyone using "reply-guy" seriously is retarded. You're posting publicly on a federated medium. You're begging for replies, but get upset when the reply isn't what you wanted.

His post is also stupid, just making a worse version of an older post for attention without actually saying anything of value.you have to be trolling.I'm guessing you don't get a very diverse set of opinions in your life usually, huh? Everyone who disagrees "[has] to be trolling"? They cannot under any circumstance just post something you disagree with, or read your post exactly as you typed it? Rather than being a stubborn fool you could've explained yourself better.it's weird behaviour nonetheless."Someone disagreeing with me is weird behaviour".

@tyil Nah, someone disagreeing isn't weird behaviour.
Weird behaviour is claiming that because someone post something publicly they're "begging for replies". Do you jump into conversations out on town too?
Weird behaviour is demanding people explain they're not literally saying people have divine abilities in a casual conversation. Do you demand evidence of a missing booty when people laugh their ass off?
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Weird behaviour is accusing some random stranger of not considering low bandwidth regions because they used an image in a post you thought was "stupid". You could've just ignored it, saving bandwidth for everyone scrolling past.
Weird, and hateful, behaviour is calling people retarded.

You might want to go outside for a bit. Sit under a tree. Say hi to a dog.
Touch some grass.

Maybe even think about what you're doing with your life and if it couldn't improve a bit.

they used an image in a post you thought was "stupid".The image was the stupid part. You may need to retrace the posts that got you here, because you seem completely lost on the topic and are just making up wild things in your head to justify being upset at me.Weird, and hateful, behaviour is calling people retarded. Spotting something and calling it what it is is neither weird nor hateful. Its just stating the obvious. If you don't want me to call you retarded, just don't behave like a retard, it really is that simple!You might want to go outside for a bitConsidering I'm doing this daily, I don't think this has the "epic comeback" value you think it has. Don't forget you're in this thread, misrepresenting what I've said three times so far. Perhaps you would consider practicing what you preach for a little bit?Maybe even think about what you're doing with your life and if it couldn't improve a bit.My life could definitely improve, I agree on that there. I work on this every day, trying to promote the ideals of accessibility, diversity of thought, freedom, and privacy, in every way I have energy for. What exactly are you doing to take this moral high ground?

@tyil The reason I first commented was I misunderstood your post I thought you didn't see the timestamp on the original toot, so it was surprising to realize the issue was you didn't understand what his post was about.

As for you promoting accessibility I can tell you're not good at it, cause then you wouldn't claim an image post with an adequate alt text wad hard to search and you would have understood it was the better contextual option. But primarily you wouldn't use ableist language.

@Mabande There's little to misunderstand. Screencapping yourself is pretty stupid, that's what the guy did, so I called it out for being pretty stupid.

cause then you wouldn't claim an image post with an adequate alt textIt's still less accessible than plain text. Accessibility is more than just the hipster garbage people puke onto the Internet these days. Just because I don't conform to your book-case examples of accessibility only doesn't mean I'm "not good at it", it just means you're too shortsighted to consider the wider implications.it was the better contextual optionIt is not, and it never will be.But primarily you wouldn't use ableist language."ableist" is a retarded term much like "reply-guy". All it does is prove me right that you only care about surface level "feel-good" accessibility that you parrot from other people. You never truly think about accessibility, you never cared enough to try and really understand why things are more or less accessible. You just want to make yourself look good without putting in any effort. That's fine on some level, but perhaps the Fediverse is not the place for you.

@tyil Accessibility isn't just "simplest formatting of everything" it's also about putting things in their context.

Try checking out what disabled users / activists say / write about it, cause I'm sensing you're using a single source on your ideas here, and it brings very little to the table.

Accessibility isn't just "simplest formatting of everything" it's also about putting things in their context.I'm glad you agree. Now try to think about what you said and try to live it!Try checking outI already do, I just don't limit myself to a single bubble, as I already said before. Try to get more diverse inputs in your life and think about your own opinions, rather than just parrotting what is popular.it brings very little to the tableLike someone screencapping their own post?

@tyil Screencapping one's own post can be a fully cromulent way to present a reaction, depending on the context.
But okay, you've made your laughably selfconflicting stance unclear a couple of times now, so let's end it here.