I’m seeing less blind people post on Masto as of late.
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I’m seeing less blind people post on Masto as of late. And I can’t tell if it’s just because of the amount of cool people I’m following who aren’t blind or because people have left for other platforms. DOn’t get me wrong. I see posts from blind people all the time. It just feels like the number of blind people posting has dropped. Not that there are less posts from blind people in general. But maybe that’s just my field of view talking.
@Rosalyn I think it's probably because the windows clients are falling further and further behind. TWBlue doesn't support polls. Tweesecake still has a bunch of issues and no updates in like a year. Even if people liked web clients, Enafore still has issues with notifications and not updating timelines sometimes. On top of that, Mona on IOS and mac released a new paid version, so people would have to subscribe to it; it's not a one-time purchase anymore. If FastSM ever gets off the ground, or TWBlue gets the promised updates, activity will probably go back up a little. But if FastSM becomes the won, it also supports bluesky, so we might see the community split a bit now that they have a choice. -
I’m seeing less blind people post on Masto as of late. And I can’t tell if it’s just because of the amount of cool people I’m following who aren’t blind or because people have left for other platforms. DOn’t get me wrong. I see posts from blind people all the time. It just feels like the number of blind people posting has dropped. Not that there are less posts from blind people in general. But maybe that’s just my field of view talking.
@Rosalyn I don't know. in my mastodon comunity how people generally are blind, I seing blind people posting every day however, probably more of blind people posts in audiogames, or qcsalon.
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I’m seeing less blind people post on Masto as of late. And I can’t tell if it’s just because of the amount of cool people I’m following who aren’t blind or because people have left for other platforms. DOn’t get me wrong. I see posts from blind people all the time. It just feels like the number of blind people posting has dropped. Not that there are less posts from blind people in general. But maybe that’s just my field of view talking.
@Rosalyn interesting, I haven't nodist any difference, oh also I'm blind
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@Rosalyn I think it's probably because the windows clients are falling further and further behind. TWBlue doesn't support polls. Tweesecake still has a bunch of issues and no updates in like a year. Even if people liked web clients, Enafore still has issues with notifications and not updating timelines sometimes. On top of that, Mona on IOS and mac released a new paid version, so people would have to subscribe to it; it's not a one-time purchase anymore. If FastSM ever gets off the ground, or TWBlue gets the promised updates, activity will probably go back up a little. But if FastSM becomes the won, it also supports bluesky, so we might see the community split a bit now that they have a choice.
@fastfinge Ah yes. I was missing the client issue. My iPad is my main device these days. I have a laptop, but I only use it when strictly necessary. I’m on Mona 7, but that was a one-time purchase for me. Thankfully, Fastsm looks promising. But I suspect you may be right about a future split.
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@fastfinge Ah yes. I was missing the client issue. My iPad is my main device these days. I have a laptop, but I only use it when strictly necessary. I’m on Mona 7, but that was a one-time purchase for me. Thankfully, Fastsm looks promising. But I suspect you may be right about a future split.
@Rosalyn I'm using it right now. It still has some issues that make it not quite ready for primetime. But they all seem quite fixable. -
@Rosalyn I'm using it right now. It still has some issues that make it not quite ready for primetime. But they all seem quite fixable.
@fastfinge @Rosalyn I switched from Tweesecake to FastSM last week. FastSM now has some features that Tweesecake didn't, namely the ability to report posts/users, along with some pretty decent pole support and scheduling posts. For me, that's huge. Granted, aside from a couple trolls I haven't had to report many people, but the function's there in case it's needed, which is definitely no bad thing.
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@fastfinge @Rosalyn I switched from Tweesecake to FastSM last week. FastSM now has some features that Tweesecake didn't, namely the ability to report posts/users, along with some pretty decent pole support and scheduling posts. For me, that's huge. Granted, aside from a couple trolls I haven't had to report many people, but the function's there in case it's needed, which is definitely no bad thing.
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@fastfinge @Rosalyn Right on. For me personally I wish the vlc/yt-dlp thing could get sorted out. Youtube videos used to play in V0.2 and 0.3, but they don't play now and it's kind of annoying. Granted, yes, I can copy the link into a media player that *does* support that, but that's not very efficient, and I love efficiency.
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I’m seeing less blind people post on Masto as of late. And I can’t tell if it’s just because of the amount of cool people I’m following who aren’t blind or because people have left for other platforms. DOn’t get me wrong. I see posts from blind people all the time. It just feels like the number of blind people posting has dropped. Not that there are less posts from blind people in general. But maybe that’s just my field of view talking.
@Rosalyn i thought it was just me and that was one of the reasons I hadn't been out here for quite some time. Because I didn't find too much interesting to read or comment on as I mentioned. I think the other night so much of the stuff from whoever posted was politics. Politics, politics that it was, frankly, quite boring. Even when I did agree with the sentiments posted
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I’m seeing less blind people post on Masto as of late. And I can’t tell if it’s just because of the amount of cool people I’m following who aren’t blind or because people have left for other platforms. DOn’t get me wrong. I see posts from blind people all the time. It just feels like the number of blind people posting has dropped. Not that there are less posts from blind people in general. But maybe that’s just my field of view talking.
Just last week I went through all of my followers and following. Those who had not posted in six months, included almost half of the blind people I followed or followed me.
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@Rosalyn i thought it was just me and that was one of the reasons I hadn't been out here for quite some time. Because I didn't find too much interesting to read or comment on as I mentioned. I think the other night so much of the stuff from whoever posted was politics. Politics, politics that it was, frankly, quite boring. Even when I did agree with the sentiments posted
@MichiganPal No, it's not just you. People are posting. But it looks like a lot of the conversations are long threads. And if you're not following all the people in them, you miss some of the context. So people are still here. It just sounds like it's a client transition issue. But that seems to be slowly sorting itself out. On Windows, I mean.
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Just last week I went through all of my followers and following. Those who had not posted in six months, included almost half of the blind people I followed or followed me.
@UncoveredMyths Okay. Not just me. Apparently blind folks are in the middle of a clients transition right now, long story short.
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@fastfinge @jdking92 @Rosalyn I saw that issue, but I actually think the issue with links lies within some forks of Mastodon having the ability to post markdown. This absolutely breaks the entire world for some reason and it just hasn't been high on my priorities list to figure out.
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@fastfinge @jdking92 @Rosalyn I saw that issue, but I actually think the issue with links lies within some forks of Mastodon having the ability to post markdown. This absolutely breaks the entire world for some reason and it just hasn't been high on my priorities list to figure out.
@Bri @fastfinge @Rosalyn Ah, markdown. I've been meaning to learn that seriously for quite some time. I hear it's majorly useful!
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@fastfinge @jdking92 @Rosalyn I saw that issue, but I actually think the issue with links lies within some forks of Mastodon having the ability to post markdown. This absolutely breaks the entire world for some reason and it just hasn't been high on my priorities list to figure out.
@Bri @jdking92 @Rosalyn Some can also just post HTML directly. Either way, when you strip the HTML, you get the link text, without the URL. Usually, the link text is the URL without https in front. But it doesn't have to be. GoToSocial, Akoma, Iceshrimp, Pleroma, Sharky, threads, Lemmy, PiFed, and literally anything other than Mastodon allow for text in the post that is a hyperlink, but does not contain the URL as the link text. Even though Mastodon doesn't allow posting like that, though, it can display that type of post. So because of the way FastSM strips HTML, it can only find links posted by another Mastodon server. Every other server type can post links that FastSM users can neither see 'nor interact with. Even Mastodon forks can do this. As someone effected daily by this issue, because it's completely and totally impossible for me to post links that tweesecake or FastSM users can interact with, no matter what I do, this is a huge priority for me. Only supporting logging into a Mastodon server account is one thing, and I get it. But the way FastSM is currently, you only support viewing posts by, and following, users who happen to also be on Mastodon. If you follow an account using literally anything else, links won't work. And it's impossible for a FastSM user to know they've followed an account on an unsupported server type. It's to the point where I avoid posting any links at all, because every single link I post gets multiple replies (sometimes as many as thirty or more) from blind users who do not understand that the client they use is at fault and in complete violation of the standards, not me. I'm one hundred percent following the standards as defined by the W3C and all of the Fediverse Enhancement Proposals. Clients that can't handle formatted links are broken. They need to be fixed. I've had to start just blocking Tweesecake users. I don't want to have to also do that with FastSM users. -
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