It does feel good to have been doing the literal years of work to prepare for this day. It was worth it.

John Mastodon

I’m excited about the possible future of open source social media clients.

A new Tusker beta build is available! This one adds state restoration (remembering where in your timeline you left off when leaving and returning to the app), an option to jump all the way to the present, as well as a slew of other minor improvements and bugfixes.

If you have any feedback or run into issues, please let me know!

You can join the beta here: https://testflight.apple.com/join/wtB7HYvG

I have encountered more image descriptions on Mastodon in 24 hours than I have in Twitter in a couple of years. Seriously. I'm not exaggerating.
As a blind person, this means a lot to me. If you read this and you describe your images, thank you so, so, so much on behalf of all of us. If you don't, now you know you'll be helping random Internet strangers make sense of your posts by typing in a few more words than usual.