As someone who regularly uses screen readers and works with blind colleagues who rely on screen readers to access the internet, please let me assure you that using #hashtags within the body of a post is not a problem.

You don’t need to move them to the end!

It is helpful to use #CamelCase to avoid gibberish for many word combos, but the extra # is so minimal as to disappear given how much else screen readers say & how fast they speak to experienced users.

We're proud to welcome a new sister Mastodon Instance for Australia! theblower.au

Aus.Social is closed for a little longer while we're finalising our policies, but welcome to get on the blower right now!

Join their instance now at http://theblower.au

Hi folks! Some of you might be aware by now that a new Australian-run fedi instance is being put together.

https://theblower.au

This is a joint venture between @hugh and @s0 and myself! Our current instances are small and/or niche intentionally, so this is a more general space which we can open up to the public a little more confidently.

We're starting to drop invite codes so we can check our foundations before opening the doors fully.

Please follow @geton for those!