Rant on discussing accessibility in the Fediverse; CW: long (over 3,000 characters), Fediverse meta, Fediverse-beyond-Mastodon meta
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Discussing Fediverse accessibility isn't possible anywhere. Now I know. Try your best to prove me wrong.
You can't really discuss anything on Mastodon because Mastodon isn't made for discussions and completely unfit for group discussions. Besides, you can't really discuss the greater Fediverse with people who only know Mastodon, and who want Mastodon's culture as it is right now applied all over the Fediverse instead of questioned and discussed.
You can't discuss Fediverse accessibility anywhere else either. That's because you'll end up amongst people who don't know Mastodon beyond having read that name somewhere, who often actually don't even care. And yes, this includes
the Fediverse community on lemmy.world. Judging by that name, you should expect people to know something about the Fediverse. Turned out all they know beyond the name is Lemmy and maybe /kbin.
Also, users on Friendica, Hubzilla and (streams) take accessibility in the Fediverse for just another stupid fad from Mastodon if they learn about its existence.
On Lemmy, they don't even know about its existence. In fact, since both Reddit and Lemmy don't provide the means to make posts accessible, the very concept of end users making their own content accessible is so incredibly alien and unimaginable to Lemmy users that they automatically assume everyone who starts talking about accessibility is a developer.
Mastodon: "Why, of course, everything has to go into the alt-text! How could you even possibly question this? This is how we've always done it, and it's impossible to do any differently anyway. What do you mean, you can post over 500 characters? What do you mean, you aren't on Mastodon? And you've been on something that isn't Mastodon all the time? So it's a Mastodon fork? What do you mean, it isn't a Mastodon fork either?"
Friendica: "We aren't Mastodon, and Mastodon is dumb anyway. Besides, Friendica's alt-text is buggy. Don't bother. Do your own thing."
Hubzilla: "Mastodon does what? Really? And you say it's mandatory there? Meh. Just another fad they try to push upon everyone else. We won't let them push it upon us. Can Hubzilla even do alt-text? One more good reason to keep PubCrawl off."
(streams): "Mastodon and everything else that goes against the ActivityPub standard can go burn in hell."
Lemmy: "You want to do what? Put alt-text in a social media post? Not a social media frontend that you're developing, but... in... a frigging
post?! Wait, you're
not a dev after all? How could you even do that if you aren't a dev? You can't do that here on Lemmy. So you're saying they do that on Mastodon? Really? WTF? Like,
why would they do that? Who needs that? What do you mean, it's
mandatory there? Really? It is? You're saying you can be, like,
banned for not doing something that's technically impossible on Lemmy? WTH?! This can't possibly be real!"
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