retronautickz

Quoting the FediPact:

Openness for the sake of openness is meaningless. Two things that are very valued on fedi are consent and freedom of association. The whole point of the fediverse is that instances are free to choose who they talk to. We don't have to federate with the likes of gab, for example. Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell, chasing a capitalist pipe dream

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.

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• 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.

• Try to give a complete description: Explain in detail the the important visual information.

• 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.

-Transcribe all text.

-Explain differences in font, size, style, and case.

• Explain the direction/order of the text.

The alt text it's not visible (I particularly would prefer if it were), but I've had no problem reading alt text with my TTS app, so, don't worry, it's there.

P.S: Totally agree about the image preview

There's alt text there. my phone's TTS app is reading it no problem. But I'm having problems with it on browser i don't know why

Puck Sfez

Please add text description to your images/screenshots

Most of these are alt-right/nazi and tankie instances/hubs/pods that are globally defederated and that they imported from a public list of "defederable servers".

The blocked and limited list of my mastodon server is way bigger than Beehaw's.

You mean if the instance I'm in defederated from one of them?

Well, I have a Beehaw account, so even if this server and Beehaw defederated, I'll still have access to Beehaw-hosted content. Also, I tend to not participate in Beehaw communities from my kbin account.

I don't care much about Lemmy World, my kbin instance (this one, the one I'm registered in) federates with it, cool, but I wouldn't be angry if it didn't.

I wouldn't care either way.

But, there's no actual risk of Beehaw defederating from any Kbin instance nor did the admins cut federation completely. People are making this issue way bigger than it actually is.

Beehaw didn't defederate from everyone else, just from two instances. the threadiverse and the fediverse are much more bigger than these two servers.