nullifidian @nullifidian@qoto.org

I have encountered more image descriptions on Mastodon in 24 hours than I have in Twitter in a couple of years. Seriously. I'm not exaggerating.
As a blind person, this means a lot to me. If you read this and you describe your images, thank you so, so, so much on behalf of all of us. If you don't, now you know you'll be helping random Internet strangers make sense of your posts by typing in a few more words than usual.

More than 300,000 union members will walk out over pay, adding to pressure on the country's health system.
‘Enough’: Nurses in UK to go on strike for first time in history

I made an AI image of "Darth Vader as a construction worker" and I can't stop laughing how it made his helmet into a hard hat.

I've fed the entire ZX Spectrum games library into a 1980s TV Times template and I swear on my life* that this is what AI has produced.

* = or something equally as worthless.

I've kind of posted an #introduction already since I joined.

In summary I make games for the #vic20 computer which is classed as #vintage or #retro now, using Turbo Rascal. In the future I'll likely make some Amstrad, #C64 and #atari games.

Nurses: can we have an inflation-matching pay rise, please?

Conservative Government:
2010: No
2011: No
2012: No
2013: No
2014: No
2015: No
2016: No
2017: No
2018: No
2019: No
2020: No, but have this 👏
2021: No
2022: No

Well here I am!

@nullifidian @xtaldave

This one has an excellent "how (not) to", but also has some etiquette pointers.

github.com/joyeusenoelle/guidetomastodon

I just asked my communications and IT colleagues at #Stanford to consider hosting a #Mastodon server for our University community (as MIT has already done: mastodon.mit.edu).

Such institutional sponsorships (e.g., higher ed, academic associations, etc.) seem like a compelling & sustainable equilibrium for the #TwitterMigration. I also think organizations that do so would benefit in several ways without meaningful new risks.
#OpenSource #fediverse #Twitter #EconTwitter #Economics

Initial impression of Mastodon…
(image source thanks to @jsit: https://www.instagram.com/p/CKrqzp-F420/)

Hi all. Can any other #blind people recommend an #accessible #mastodon app for #iOS? I'm trying to find a good one that works well with VoiceOver.

I am going to try to find time this weekend to add in several new features to QOTO, fix a few small bugs, and if we aare REALLY lucky and things go well I might release a new version of QOTO this weekend (no promises though my life is CRAZY right now, hard to predict).

It’s funny, many of the “what you need to know about Mastodon” or “how to learn about the fediverse” pieces are focused on the technology and the implementation, when the hardest thing for people to understand about this context, if they’re used to traditional social media & tech, is that here we have an expectation of _consent_. Consent if you want to be included in a conversation, consent about being amplified, consent in the form of CWs on topics that you want to manage, etc. That’s it! 🎯

Light relief. Puffins -Sumburgh Head, Shetland, 2008
More at http://www.dcscience.net/shetlands_album/index.html

The QOTO server gives you 65535 characters per toot, which makes around 36 standard printing pages