How We Lost Communication to Entertainment

How We Lost Communication to Entertainment par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

@ploum The underlying assumption here is that images are inherently not a form of communication, but are merely "content" or "entertainment." As an artist, I absolutely disagree with this assumption. Art *is* a form of communication, so fostering the ability to share it can only be fostering communication, just in a different way. I want a place to share my artwork with others and to see others' artwork, and if it doesn't contain any text, it still communicates things to me.
@ploum I'm also a writer, so sharing text is important, and I appreciate that I can do that on Mastodon and on other protocols like Gemini. But Gemini especially is a horrible place to try and share artwork because it's not built for it. In my mind, that breaks down communication in a different way, by hindering my ability to communicate through my art. So shouldn't that be as big of a problem as Pixelfed only showing images? Yet I never see anyone mention that as an issue with Gemini.

@arkholt : you should read again what I wrote. The issue is "people posting messages expecting people to see them while they can’t see them."

Nobody post pictures on Gemini and is surprised that some people can’t see them.

Mastodon only shows 4 images from Pixelfed users when they post multiple images. And that’s bad! That’s a problem. We totally miscommunicate (imagine a comic that appears as racist until the 5th picture change the whole meaning).

That’s the problem I’m talking about.