Mastodawn

Springy Owlbear

@rbreich hey, Robert? Or whoever manages your account?

Could you please use Alt Text? Always, but especially when it's an image of text?

@cocaine_owlbear @rbreich

It's getting kind of hard to accept that this man of the people not only continues to make this mistake, but that his operation consistently ignores all requests to stop doing so.

@Professor_Stevens @cocaine_owlbear @rbreich He's not engaging here at all, just auto-posting to Mastodon for reach. And yes, WHY does this have to be posted as images and not just as text? It's so wasteful and almost inaccessible by design.

Yeah, I have wondered about that too. Does posting text as an image give it more gravitas, or something? But, regardless, he hasn't been engaging here, has he? I love what he has to say, but it might be time to put other things first.

Shall we each send him a note saying if he doesn't start using alt text here in 30 days, we'll stop following him?

@Professor_Stevens @cocaine_owlbear @rbreich He won't read that, because he isn't really here :)

Well, someone is posting his material here for him. If it's for reach (and I can't imagine that's not at least one reason), whoever that is probably watches the numbers. If they go down, maybe that will get their attention.

And, fact is, these little snippets of his wisdom haven't really taught me anything new in a long time. I like them, but I don't gain much from them.

@Professor_Stevens @cocaine_owlbear @rbreich I bet it's automated

It could be. But numbers are still numbers.

We could also go direct and contact him via his bsky account or any of several other ways.

Or, frankly, we could just move on to some other matter of importance. Life's too short sometimes, eh?

@Professor_Stevens @cocaine_owlbear @rbreich I'm going to mute him - I've tried messaging that account a few times before, never got a reply. It's not worth it.

You know, I think I will too. Or just unfollow. But, yeah, he's not playing by his own rules. Kind of a shame to be drawing that conclusion. Our side is supposed to be better than that.

Thanks for helping me sort that out in my mind.