retronautickz @fedi196.gay Pallas | 29
Queer | Disabled and neurodivergent | vegan |
\#Hyperacusia #ActuallyAutistic #ChronicallyIll #Photophobia #Amblyopia
Proud owner of a weak-ass spine and vertebral column, and of a wonky optic nerve
Fan of vintage fashion, old films/tv series, old school visual kei and classical music
New to Kbin, but not new to the fediverse
Avatar description: A portrait of Ludwig Van Beethoven painted by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller.
Cover description: A picture of the sky
I wanna give it a try, but I've been looking at the servers and I haven't found the one for me and what I'll use the account for. Nor do I know of any account on a pixelfed server I could be interested in following...to just follow accounts on completely different federated servers it wouldn't make any sense to me.
The average user doesn't want to migrate here, though. The average user is either content to keep their Reddit account or thinking on migrating to another big centralised platform.
Open-source decentralised platforms like the fediverse and its projects aren't remotedly interesting for the average user.
"The growth" of the fediverse in general or of any platform in it is not responsibility of one server. The only thing Beehaw admins are responsible for is Beehaw.
If you want Lemmy to grow create your own communities and threads, participate in other people's communities and posts, etc.
there are more than 1000 Lemmy servers, many of whom are open to community creation (something that Beehaw never has been)
Go create content on Lemmy if you want it to grow.
BTW, "growth" is not necessarily a good thing on the fediverse. Growing too much can be the death of a server.
What if...just hear me...what if you just enjoy your time on the threadiverse and live Reddit alone?
The beauty of the fediverse is that those people exist in their own servers and you can simply join servers that defederate from theirs.
I've got some news about the demographics of the threadiverse
We already have sites that offer small communities; what we needed was a replacement for Reddit.
The thing is neither Lemmy not kbin were made to be Reddit replacements.
The reason Reddit/Facebook/et al are so huge is because people want to have a single community to talk with
They're also centralised and their respective servers can tolerate much more content being shared/posted onto them than a fediverse server can. Having different communities allows for a given server not to be saturated.
Idk why there are so many general use instances when the threadiverse would be a great place for themed instances to exist. But even with thematic instances you can't avoid similar communities existing (because multiples servers could exist for the same topic/fandom/etc.
Something that connects communities about the same topic from different servers into a "macro-community", so everything posted in any of the communities can be read when you click one of them, without putting to much pressure into a sole server, would be cool. But I don't think is posible with AP alone.
Because they're two different communities/magazines hosted in two different servers from two different platforms
Federation makes it posible for you to participate in both
Yes. Defederation of bad actors has always been common and it's expected.
Why would anyone still be on Twitter when Mastodon, Akkoma, Calckey, GoToSocial, etc exist?
Lemmy is way older. The true veterans are hiding somewhere
Could it be a problem due to the newest Lemmy software upgrade?
For what I read it's a complete mess.
It denies access from non-en-us browsers, for example.
It wouldn't surprise me if it messed with federation too.
But, they're the devs. They did this mess. Why would they present a software upgrade that clearly had a lot of issues is beyond me...
On the Fediverse no, there isn't. The closest thing would be Matrix (as someone mentioned above). But Matrix, while, decentralised, it's not truly part of the fediverse.
So a chat platform is something the fediverse is lacking, but idk how posible it is as federation = less security and less privacy. For example, it wouldn't be able to add end-to-end encryption.
Matrix is decentralised but not part of the fediverse as it doesn't make use of ActivityPub or any other federated protocol. It's isolated in its own protocol.
If anybody wants to share a link to kbin/Lemmy so people join, don't send the official Lemmy or Kbin page (or the official page of any federated platform) nor the link to any given server. Share instead links to the Join the fediverse wiki, fedeverse party, etc that have lists of servers and also have posts explaining anything a person needs to know to start an account on any decentralized platform/server.
1- Kbin is newer and less known and more unstable
2- The top five growing Lemmy instances are full of bot/spam accounts
Kbin magazines, Lemmy communities, Friendica Forums and Guppe and Chirp groups belong to the "federated groups" category
You can post in any group by selecting it when creating a new article and selecting whichever magazine/community/forum/group you want to post in.
you can also post in guppe and chrip groups on microblog by adding the group's handle.
@(group name)@(a.gup.pe or chirp.social)
Apart from adding alt text.
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Casing of multi-word tags: Always write the first letter of each word on a hashtag containing several word uppercase. This way screen readers and TTS software can interpret and read them as separated words. Otherwise it would read them as one nonsensical word
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Avoid fancy/special fonts: Screen readers/TTS software can't read them as letters.
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I don't think it's going to be a problem here, but wordle is a nightmare for Screen readers/TTS software as they can't detect the words and only describe the squares one by one. It's better to screenshot it and add an explanation of the results in alt text.
(Continue here)
- In the case of describing flags or objects that may contain stripes of different colours, you can do so by going left-to-right or right-to-left (for vertical stripes), top-to-bottom or bottom-to-top (for horizontal stripes). Mention also the width of the stripes.
Let say someone wants. to upload a image of the Canadian flag and needs to add a description. it could be this way:
"An image of the Canadian flag. It contains three vertical stripes, its colours from left-to-right are: red, white, red. The white stripe is twice as long in wide and contains a read maple leaf in its centre"
- When describing images containing text or emojis, explain the placement of the text/emojis. Add colours, differences on case, and fonts if necessary. Establish the reading order/direction of the text.
Three rules:
- Be concise: Only describe objects and details that are essential to understanding the image.
As it can be seeing in my first example, there's no mention of the sky, the ground, the type of phone, etc. as they're not relevant information. The main objects there a squirrel, tree and person.
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Try to give a complete description: Explain in detail the the important visual information.
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Add the context of the image when necessary: where does it come from? What relation it has to the context it was in? Often context isn't necessary. Only add it when it's important to understand the image you're describing.
(https://fedi196.gay/tag/AltText) part 2: How to write Image descriptions?
#AltText part 2: How to write Image descriptions?
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Always say the format of the image your describing. It is an screenshot? A photo? a drawing? a meme?
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Describe the placement of objects in the image and the spatial relation between them.
For example, let's say you have the image of a squirrel with a tree on the background. You could describe the image as:
"A squirrel looking at the camera. behind it, to the left corner (or which ever place the object may be) there's a tree."
- Describe colours. You don't need to go on board with extremely specific shades, tones,etc, just general colours. But those may be needed when describing flags or things/animals that are two tones of the same colour.
Continuing the example. Let say the squirrel has a darker shade of brown in its ears, tail and chest than in the rest of its body. Describes de eyes too.
Do not forget to mention the colours of background objects too
"A squirrel looking at the camera. It's completely brown with it tail, ears and chest being of a darker shade of brown than the rest of its body. Its eyes are black and glassy looking. Behind it, to the left corner (or which ever place the object may be) there's a tree. Its trunk is a grey-ish brown and the leaves at the top are different shades of yellow, red, and orange"
- If there's a person on the picture, describe race, gender (if you don't know their gender for sure,use they/them pronouns and neutral language and add a presentation type "a person who presents as masculine" instead of "a man"), hair colour and style, clothing, accessories they wear (including glasses, hearing aids, etc) and the like. If the person is known, add their name. Important: what is the person doing?
Let add a person to our example then:
"A photo of a squirrel looking at the camera. It's completely brown with it tail, ears and chest being of a darker shade of brown than the rest of its body. Its eyes are black and glassy looking. Behind it, to the left corner (or which ever place the object may be) there's a tree. Its trunk is a grey-ish brown and the leaves at the top are different shades of yellow, red, and orange. Behind the tree, more to the right of the squirrel, a person presenting as feminine, can be seeing looking at their phone. They're wearing a red blouse, a pair of jeans and red shoes. Their hair is blond and curly, and light complexion"
- If known, add the breed of the animal or the type of plant. I don't know much about squirrels, so lets put the tree as an example:
"A photo of a squirrel looking at the camera. It's completely brown with it tail, ears and chest being of a darker shade of brown than the rest of its body. Its eyes are black and glassy looking. Behind it, to the left corner (or which ever place the object may be) there's a hazelnut tree. Its trunk is a grey-ish brown and the leaves at the top are different shades of yellow, red, and orange. Behind the tree, more to the right of the squirrel, a person presenting as feminine, can be seeing looking at their phone. They're wearing a red blouse, a pair of jeans and red shoes. Their hair is blond and curly, and light complexion"
- Describe emotions if posible.
"A photo of a squirrel looking curiously at the camera. It's completely brown with it tail, ears and chest being of a darker shade of brown than the rest of its body. Its eyes are black and glassy looking. Behind it, to the left corner (or which ever place the object may be) there's a hazelnut tree. Its trunk is a grey-ish brown and the leaves at the top are different shades of yellow, red, and orange. Behind the tree, more to the right of the squirrel, a person presenting as feminine, can be seeing looking at their phone. They seem to be laughing as something. They're wearing a red blouse, a pair of jeans and red shoes. Their hair is blond and curly, and light complexion"
You can add (https://fedi196.gay/tag/AltText) in both (https://fedi196.gay/tag/Lemmy) and (https://fedi196.gay/tag/Kbin) by writing the image description between the brackets
You can add #AltText in both #Lemmy and #Kbin by writing the image description between the brackets
! [Put your alt text here] (url)
Also, when you upload images from your pc on #kbin there's a text box below (with the words "Imagine alternative text" above it) where you can put your image description.
Another thing, when writing tags with several words in it, always write the first letter of each word in Uppercase #/LikeThis, otherwise most screen readers/text-to-speech apps can't detect them.
Also, I'm begging you, avoid special fonts as they cannot be detected by screen readers and TTS software. Most of the time the letters are actually phonetic or mathematical symbols and the software interpret them as such.