Gardening @lemmy.world SchmidtGenetics @lemmy.world 2w ago

I'm potting up my starts today, what's your plans?

Nothing special, just some potting soil and some cups.

Fill up with dirt, make a hole and drop the Brownies in and water lightly.

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@Panamalt You are wrong.
#Accessibility is a virtue on Mastodon. There are quite a few #blind or visually impaired people who use this medium with their screen readers for precisely this reason. There are also quite a few users who neither favor nor boost posts with media without #alttext text.
- First, this is not Mastodon. Idk the rules there, but to my knowledge, there is nothing requiring the use of alt-text on lemmy.world.
  
  Second, this is a post asking about fucking weekend gardening plans, not some world news or national tragedy. The image is literally meaningless outside of the context of the post. If you can't interact with the image or you don't like something, then the post isn't for you. Move on and be a miserable asshole somewhere else.
  
  @Panamalt Now I know why you don't have any followers.
  
  Why the hell would I want any followers
  
  @Panamalt Don't you want someone to read your toots?
  
  I'm on Lemmy, a thread based discussion platform, aka. a forum. Followers are a massively stupid, meaningless waste of time here. Vastly prefer having legit conversations anyway.
  
  @Panamalt So I'm going to block you.
  
  Thank god
- This isn't Mastodon, and Lemmy does not support users entering alt text as far as I know.
  
  @catloaf If it wasn't an instance of Mastodon it wouldn't be able to root your toots here.
  
  The fediversecounter@mastodon.social counts it.
  
  You should ask how to enter alt text. Usually, when you upload a photo, a button for edit shows up. There you can enter alt text.
  
  I assure you, lemmy.world is Lemmy, not Mastodon. There is limited interoperability between them.
  
  But I did check and Lemmy does have an alt text field on submission. I don't know how it works past that.
  
  My app does have the option to add when posting for the record. I appreciate the people that do it, but I take offense at it being forced. If it was a rule to posting, it’s a barrier to entry for some people unfortunately, and I wouldn’t join.
  
  Maybe my attitude will change after I get my surgery, but I get enough prejudice myself IRL for my invisible disabilities. It’s also hard enough on my mental health as is, don’t always need to be reminded of my limitations in my prime.
  
  Sucks not being able to fully utilize your hands at 35, wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.
  
  I 100% posted from Lemmy, and Lemmy.world to be specific.
  
  No idea how federation works though.

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