🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)7h ago

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you're yelling at a person on Fedi for not using #AltText, stop. Please.

Should you use alt-text? Yes!

Should you boost posts without alt-text? No!

Should you yell at companies and bots who don't use alt-text? Fuck yeah!

Should you try your best to make Fedi a more accessible, and safe place for everyone—including those who have trouble writing alt-text? Of course.

Should you mention @altbot or #Alt4Me *occasionally* so folx know they're both wonderful tools that can help make Fedi a more inclusive place? It would be impolite not to.

But—and let me make this clear—don't be a dick to folx who forget alt-text, or who have trouble writing it for whatever reason; it's not very punk of you.

Show threadMastodon Migration

@alice @altbot

Basically telling other people how they should be using Mastodon is not cool unless they are violating some instance rule.

You always have the option of muting them or blocking them so you don't have to endure whatever offense you perceive they are perpetrating.

Now, fully realize telling people not to tell people how to use Mastodon is kind of telling people how to use Mastodon. So it's a conundrum, but generally agree with Alice. Please don't be a Mastodon HOA enforcer.

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Show threadRandom Walsh5h ago
@mastodonmigration @alice @altbot "fully realize telling people not to tell people how to use Mastodon is kind of telling people how to use Mastodon". No, it's common sense. No more paradox here than in saying everyone should be free to do as they please. Of course there's more to social life than such minimalistic wisdom but telling people what they should say and how they should say it is clearly no the best way to start a conversation between equals.
Show threadJupiter Rowland5h ago
@Mastodon Migration Basically telling other people how they should be using Mastodon is not cool unless they are violating some instance rule.
As, by the way, is telling Fediverse users who are not on Mastodon to use whatever they use instead like Mastodon users are expected to use Mastodon.

Please don't be a Mastodon HOA enforcer.
Especially since the alt-text police of the Mastodon HOA have much higher alt-text and image description minimum standards than blind or visually-impaired people. And they seem to be raising their standards further and further.

I always try my best to be way ahead of anyone's image description minimum standards, also in order to demonstrate to the Mastodon HOA that I'm not a lazy bum, and that I do try hard to describe my images properly. For my own original images, this means that I have to describe each one of them twice, with a fairly short description in the alt-text and a much longer one in the post itself.

This, however, clashes with the Mastodon HOA, too, because they also enforce Mastodon's default 500-character limit Fediverse-wide by generously blocking everyone whom they catch exceeding it at first strike.

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#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #CharacterLimit #CharacterLimits #CharacterLimitMeta #CWCharacterLimitMeta #500Characters #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #ImageDescription #ImageDescriptions #ImageDescriptionMeta #CWImageDescriptionMeta #AltTextPolice #MastodonHOA
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Show threadPino Carafa4h ago

@mastodonmigration @alice @altbot There's a difference between posting a Toot asking people to do something, and a direct reply to someone to tell them.

What I particularly detest is:
* A posts a Toot
* B replies
* A valiant Shite in Whining Armour, C, comes galloping in on their Mighty Steed and starts defending A against the Horrible Thing B must have had the Unmitigated Audacity to say as A, a Frail little Blossom, will surely take Offence and surely won't be able to defend themselves.