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Dear Twitter users who are angry at people ditching Twitter because “they haven’t given Elon a chance”
Mastodon already mostly is what Elon is claiming he wants Twitter to be like. Perhaps it’s time to analyze if you actually care about the problems at hand, or if you’re fanboying a billionaire.
As more and more #news spreads across the #fediverse, make sure to do fact-checks and #bias checks to keep your distance from #misinformation.
Some great resources: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com, https://ground.news
If you've attached a video file to your post, it's a good idea to add a text description of what's going on just like you would for an image, so that blind people know what's in it through screen readers.
However, if your video has sound, remember to also describe the audio as well.
Describing sound in captions can be useful to people who are deaf, or those who are in a situation where they can't listen to the sound (on the bus, in a meeting etc).
On Mastodon you can add descriptions to files by attaching them and then clicking "edit" on the web interface, or simply writing on top of them in the official app.
Other Fediverse platforms and apps also support adding text descriptions.
If you want to move your Mastodon account from one server to another, you can keep your follows and followers if you complete all the steps in this guide:
https://mstdn.social/@feditips/107939441820299376
By the way, don't delete your old account after the move, because it will redirect people to your new account and keep your old posts in existence. Your old posts will still have your old account's name, but when people click on them they'll see a message directing them to the new account.
UPDATE: If you want to transfer your account to another server, here's how to do it: ➡️ https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server This guide is a bit longer than other guides as it includes moving your followers, follows and blocks/mutes/bookmarks. (By the way, sorry for people seeing notification of this post edit. I had to edit as the original contents were somewhat out of date. As this post now links to my website instead, you won't get any future update notices for this post.)
Who's ready for the #pixelfedApp?
If you want early access to the private beta, stay tuned! We'll share more details in the coming days ✨
Building our own app has really opened up a lot of exciting ideas and opportunities!
✨ Username change support
✨ Post edits (media + caption)
✨ Community alt-text captions (crowdsource missing alt text)
✨ Community moderation
✨ Comment control
✨ Camera Roll
✨ Content API
✨ Global Discover API
We look forward to sharing more details soon 😎 #pixelfed #pixelfedApp
When you're posting hashtags that contain multiple words, it's a good idea to capitalise the first letter of each word. This helps blind people who use screen reader software to know what the hashtag actually says.
For example #DogsOfMastodon is much easier for screen reader users than #dogsofmastodon, even though they're technically the same tag.
This kind of capitalisation is usually known as "CamelCase". CamelCase doesn't just help blind people, it also makes hashtags clearer for sighted people too!
Using CamelCase won't affect your post's visibility (because searches ignore capitalisation) but it will improve the post's accessibility, so you'll get more people reading it.
Thank you to @martyn for raising this topic 👍
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