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YSK: Pixelfed replaced Instagram for me, the same way Lemmy replaced reddit.
  • 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.

  • Fediverse won't replace Reddit as long as Lemmy is the main platform being promoted
  • 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.

  • YSK: If you're on Lemmy.World or Sh.itjust.works you should not subscribe to any Beehaw communities
  • "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.

  • Instead of deleting your Reddit account, consider using chatgpt to make comments instead
  • What if...just hear me...what if you just enjoy your time on the threadiverse and live Reddit alone?

  • Unlike previous attempts at trying reddit alternatives (like Voat), kbin and much of the lemmyverse doesn’t seem to be plagued with extreme far right buffoonery.
  • The beauty of the fediverse is that those people exist in their own servers and you can simply join servers that defederate from theirs.

  • Why can't magazines/communities aggregate content from other instances?
  • 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.

  • Why can't magazines/communities aggregate content from other instances?
  • 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

  • banning and defederating communities
  • Yes. Defederation of bad actors has always been common and it's expected.

  • Twitter gets buggier: Followers don’t display, users restricted in error
  • Why would anyone still be on Twitter when Mastodon, Akkoma, Calckey, GoToSocial, etc exist?

  • Since Kbin is new basically anyone here now would be considered veterans in a few years.
  • Lemmy is way older. The true veterans are hiding somewhere

  • Lemmy.ml is blocking all requests from /kbin Instances
  • 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...

  • What petty hill will you die on?
    • There's Vanilla ice cream, and also "vanilla" ice cream

    • Burger and sandwich places should offer cooked vegetable options to add to the burger/sandwich for people who cannot eat or simply don't like raw vegetables

  • What kind of platform would you like to see on the fediverse?
  • 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.

  • What kind of platform would you like to see on the fediverse?
  • 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.

  • non-stickied PSA: Beehaw has signed the Anti-Meta Fedi Pact
  • 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

  • Rather than telling Reddit users to migrate, share links to Fediverse posts to drive them here
  • 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.

  • I understand that I can read magazines from other servers, but can I post to them too?
  • 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)

  • ### [#AltText](https://fedi196.gay/tag/AltText) part 2: How to write Image descriptions? ###
  • (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.

    • 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.

  • ### [#AltText](https://fedi196.gay/tag/AltText) part 2: How to write Image descriptions? ###

    #AltText part 2: How to write Image descriptions?

    • Always say the format of the image your describing. It is an screenshot? A photo? a drawing? a meme?

    • 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"

    \#Lemmy #Kbin #Thrediverse #Accessibility

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    PSA: Image posts and blind accessibility.
  • -Transcribe all text.

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

    • Explain the direction/order of the text.
  • You can add [#AltText](https://fedi196.gay/tag/AltText) in both [#Lemmy](https://fedi196.gay/tag/Lemmy) and [#Kbin](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.

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    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

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    Cover description: A picture of the sky

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