#cweyecontact — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #cweyecontact, aggregated by home.social.
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CW: When eye contact is eye contact, and what you have to do; CW: long post (over 2,500 characters), Fediverse meta, content warning meta, hashtag meta, eye contact mentioned
Eye contact is not limited to full facial portraits of people looking directly into the camera.
Eye contact is not even limited to looking directly into the camera at all.
Eye contact is whenever there is at least one eye anywhere in the image. No matter where it is. No matter how small the eye and how big the image is.
Ask autistic people, and they'll likely confirm. And they'll also likely confirm that it triggers them.
In fact, eye contact is even when you, as a neurotypical person, cannot even see the eye because it's less then a pixel.
Imagine an image of 20 megapixels. Now imagine there's a person somewhere in the image, only four pixels high and about one pixel wide. This means the head is half a pixel high and a third of a pixel wide.
Even if the person is looking directly at the camera, this still means that each individual eye is 1/15 of a pixel wide and maybe 1/30 of a pixel high. That's 1/450 or a bit over 0.2% of a pixel. That's about 1/9,000,000,000 or a bit over 0.000,000,01% of the whole image. If the person is looking directly at the camera.
Nonetheless, this may trigger some autistic people even if the person is not even looking into the general direction of the camera.
It doesn't even have to be a person. It may just as well be an animal or a fantasy creature or a robot or a sculpture or a stylised face or even only a single stylised eye.
I've actually had all this confirmed by @Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣 who knows enough actually diagnosed autistic people to know.
So it doesn't matter how big or infinitely small the eye is. It doesn't matter where it's looking. If there's at least one eye in your image, it counts as eye contact.
If you, as the user who posts the image, know for certain that there is at least one eye in the image, you're obliged to- have the image automatically blanked or blurred
- make sure that Mastodon will blank the image, too
- add the content warning "CW: eye contact" to your post
- add the hashtags #EyeContact and #CWEyeContact to your post, especially the former which some people out there may have filtered
You're only excused not to do so if you yourself honestly don't know that there is at least one eye in the image.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #CW #CWs #CWMeta #ContentWarning #ContentWarnings #ContentWarningMeta #Hashtag #Hashtags #HashtagMeta #CWHashtagMeta #EyeContactMeta #CWEyeContactMeta #Autism #Autistic #Neurodivergent #Neurodivergence #Inclusion #Inclusivity #A11y #Accessibility -
CW: Eye contact
Did an eye banner commission for my friend AscendedStorm of his Vtuber OC!
Did a few variations and a split of both
If you'd like to commission or support me:
https://www.ko-fi.com/andecoas/#art #digitalart #commissionsopen #kofi #artist #eyes #vtuber #twitch #streamer #mastoart #creativetoots #cweyecontact
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CW: Eye Contact
WIP of a drawing I'm working on.
If anyone is interested in getting something done from me, my comms are open on Kofi.
https://www.ko-fi.com/andecoas/
Need to make $600 this month for overdraft, taxes, and bills. Please share around if you can!
$8 // $600
#art #digitalart #artist #mutualaid #commissionsopen #donations #sketch #drawing #kofi #fanart #emergencycommissions #crowdfunding #MastoArt #CreativeToots #MutualAidRequest #crowdfunding #freelance #cweyecontact #tweyecontact
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@Mr. Funk E. Dude The hashtag would be
#EyeContact
And, in addition to the one above, if you really want to drive the point home that the hashtag is there with a content-warning function to a) trigger post-removing/post-rejecting filters, b) trigger post-hiding filters on Mastodon and c) trigger the "NSFW" post-hiding feature on Friendica, Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte:
#CWEyeContact
I don't think there's any consensus on whether #CW and #ContentWarning should be used as actual content warning hashtags or for content warning discussions, which should be tagged #CWs, #ContentWarnings, #CWMeta and/or #ContentWarningMeta, or for both. I mean, apart from #CW being constantly used for either "continuous wave" in amateur radiotelegraphy or the CW Television network.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Forte #Filters #FediTips #Hashtag #Hashtags -
CW: Bluesky's outage as seen by the Fediverse; CW: eye contact
I've read that Bluesky is offline. I can't impossibly not spork that. So have a double feature.
[spoiler=Caution: Images hidden due to eye contact]Explanation
The first image is based on the "Dr. Evil Air Quotes" meme. The second image is based on the "Oh No! Anyway" meme template.
On November 14th, 2024, Bluesky's main instance, bsky.social, went offline. Effectively, this meant that Bluesky as a whole went offline because bsky.social is the one instance were practically everyone is. Hardly anyone knows that other so-called PBS's exist, and Bluesky is frequently considered to be not decentralised at all.
#Bluesky #Meme #Image macro #Reaction Image #Dr. Evil Air Quotes #Oh No! Anyway #EyeContact #CWEyeContact #Sensitive #⚠️ -
CW: Meme: Fediverse server requirements; CW: eye contact, crying, anger, Japanese profanity
Ever wondered why the "Facebook alternative" side of the Fediverse is easy to deploy and so lightweight in spite of its feature wealth?
[spoiler=Caution: Image hidden due to eye contact, crying, anger and Japanese profanity]Explanation:
This image is a collage based on various memes.
The top row makes use of Wojaks, it basically is a Wojak comic. The two Wojaks on the right are Soyjaks, the third one from the left is essentially the same combination of a Soyjak and a Crying Wojak as seen in the Soyjaks vs Chads format. "Baka", as said by the Soyjak in the top right, is Japanese for "idiot" and hints at Misskey, as well as large parts of its target audience, being Japanese. It has become a meme of its own.
The bottom row re-uses the "Moth Lamp" meme. This time, however, "lämp", intentionally spelled with an umlaut as per the meme, does not mean a light source. Instead, it stands for a so-called "LAMP stack" which is the bare minimum Web server equipment.- L stands for Linux and refers not to the operating system kernel, but to the whole software platform.
- A stands for the Apache HTTP Server.
- M stands for the MySQL database management system, nowadays usually in the shape of the MySQL fork MariaDB.
- P, in this case, stands for the PHP scripting language used for dynamic websites.
The three Fediverse server applications represented as moths in the bottom row, captioned with "LÄMP", are Friendica, a very powerful Facebook alternative created by Mike Macgirvin in 2010, Hubzilla, a very versatile and extremely powerful "federated content management system" which Mike Macgirvin himself created from 2015 out of his own Friendica fork, and the intentionally nameless application in the streams repository from 2021, itself at the end of a long line of forks by Mike Macgirvin again, starting at Hubzilla. None of the four have any exotic or heavy-weight server software requirements. They need JavaScript for parts of the UI, but otherwise, they can run on a bone-stock Web server, requiring remarkably few CPU and RAM resources.
The four projects in the top row, on the other hand, have more exotic and/or heavy-weight requirements.
The one in the top left is diaspora* from later in 2010 than Friendica, the only one in the image that does not support ActivityPub at all (it is only connected to the few Fediverse projects which support its own protocol, including Friendica and Hubzilla). diaspora* and Mastodon next to it are both written in Ruby on Rails. Thus, they require more hardware resources per user identity than the three at the bottom while not even nearly offering the latter's features.
Next to them, Pleroma from 2016 is famous for being much more lightweight than Mastodon while still offering more. But it is written in the fairly exotic Elixir language. Also, it can't use MySQL; it is only compatible with more complex PostgreSQL. In the meantime, Misskey, which dates back to 2014, is entirely based on JavaScript: It is written in Microsoft's TypeScript with Vue.js for the frontend. Let's say there's a reason why the former Firefish fork and now Misskey fork Iceshrimp is currently being re-written from scratch in C# as Iceshrimp.NET.
#Fediverse #diaspora* #Mastodon #Ruby on Rails #Pleroma #Elixir #PostgreSQL #Misskey #JavaScript #TypeScript #Vue.js #Friendica #Hubzilla #(streams) #MySQL #PHP #LAMP stack #Meme #FediMeme #Fediverse Meme #Wojak #Wojak comics #Soyjak #Crying Wojak #Moth #Lämp #Moth lamp #EyeContact #CWEyeContact #Profanity #CWProfanity #Swearing #CWSwearing #Swear word #Crying #CWCrying #Tears #Anger #CWAnger #Sensitive #⚠️ -
CW: Eye contact
Finished a pic of my friend's Vtuber. If you like my work, please share or consider commissioning me. This is my only form of income and I'm nowhere near my monthly goal.
$0 // $300
https://www.ko-fi.com/andecoas/
I offer sketch requests for $10 tips and 20% discounted commissions. Anything helps ❤️
#art #digitalart #artist #mutualaid #commissionsopen #donations #sketch #drawing #emergencycommissions #crowdfunding #MastoArt #CreativeToots #MutualAidRequest #freelance #cweyecontact
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CW: The Fediverse wants Lööps; CW: eye contact, food
[spoiler=Caution: Image hidden due to eye contact and food]Explanation:
The image is based on the "Cats Wanting Fruit Loops" meme template and the "Brother, May I Have Some Oats?" copypasta.
It references Loops, the federated TikTok alternative recently announced by @dansup, also creator of the Instagram alternative Pixelfed and the Android app Fedilab.
#Fediverse #Loops #Meme #FediMeme #Fediverse Meme #Image macro #Copypasta #Cats wanting Fruit Loops #Brother may I have some oats #EyeContact #CWEyeContact #Food #CWFood #Sensitive #⚠️ -
CW: Meme: Jeremy Clarkson speaking for Hubzilla and (streams) concerning Fediverse spam; CW: eye contact
[spoiler=Caution: Image hidden due to eye contact]Explanation:
The image is based on the "Oh No! Anyway" meme template.
It takes a jab at how vulnerable to spam especially Mastodon is while Hubzilla and (streams) are very resilient against it. Mastodon and other Fediverse projects have suffered from several waves of spam, one of which is on-going, but Hubzilla and (streams) have never been affected. There are various reasons for this.
One reason is the option to be notified if mentioned by a non-connection out of the blue. On Mastodon, this option is on by default, and next to nobody turns it off. On Hubzilla and (streams), this option is off by default, and hardly anyone turns it on.
Another reason is because both Hubzilla and (streams) have very advanced permissions systems with over a dozen parameters. For example, on Mastodon, anyone whom you follow can send you their posts and their boosts, and anyone can reply to your posts and send you DMs. The only countermeasures are muting them, blocking them, blocking their entire instance or having the admins or mods take care of them.
Hubzilla and (streams), in contrast, have vastly more powerful means of self-moderation. They have separate permissions settings for others to send posts, reply to posts and send DMs, amongst other permission settings. These permissions can be generally restricted for the whole Hubzilla or (streams) channel and then granted to certain contacts, keeping non-contacts out. Ignoring and blocking come on top as last resorts.
And this is only what users can do. Admins have some other tricks up their sleeves.
Lastly, it's very unlikely that someone will use Hubzilla or (streams) to send spam and even less likely that a bot will use Hubzilla or (streams) to send spam. You can't just create an account and spam away like on Mastodon. It's more likely for public instances of Hubzilla or (streams) to have registration approval than for Mastodon instances. Also, you have to create a channel to be able to post from it; not your account is your identity with everything in it, but your channel is. This is an extra obstacle. Lastly, while almost the entire rest of the Fediverse defaults to posting in public, both Hubzilla and (streams) default to posting privately to to certain contacts, changing which is anything but straight-forward.
#Fediverse #Mastodon #Hubzilla #(streams) #Spam #Meme #FediMeme #Fediverse Meme #Image macro #Reaction Image #Oh No! Anyway #EyeContact #CWEyeContact #Sensitive #⚠️ -
CW: Eye contact
WIP Wednesday!
Drawing a silly picture for a vtuber friend!I’m doing $10 sketch requests in my Kofi and offering 20% off commissions right now with code ANDECOAS
Please share with anyone who may be interested! Money goes to monthly bills, need $150 by the 14th
https://www.ko-fi.com/andecoas/#wipwednesday #wip #art #digitalart #artist #mutualaid #commissionsopen #donations #sketch #drawing #MastoArt #CreativeToots #MutualAidRequest #crowdfunding #emergencycommissions #cweyecontact
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CW: Meme: Me trying to retell the whole history of Mike Macgirvin's Fediverse creations from Mistpark to Forte; CW: eye contact
[spoiler=Caution: Image hidden due to eye contact]Explanation:
The image is based on the "Pepe Silvia" meme template.
It references the complexity of the history of Fediverse server applications created by @Mike Macgirvin 🖥️ which started in July, 2010 with the release of Mistpark, known today as Friendica. It led through a maze of forks, all created by Mike from his own works, to his most recent project, Forte, from August, 2024. The only other two survivors from this history are Hubzilla from 2015 and the streams repository from 2021. In fact, the streams repository itself adds to the complexity of the history because it is not a project, and the software in it is intentionally without a name and a brand identity.
#Fediverse #Mistpark #Friendika #Friendica #Red #Red Matrix #Hubzilla #Osada #Zap #Mistpark 2020 #Misty #Redmatrix 2020 #Roadhouse #(streams) #Forte #Meme #FediMeme #Fediverse Meme #Image macro #Exploitable #Pepe Silvia #EyeContact #CWEyeContact #Sensitive #⚠️ -
CW: Eye contact
Making an emote for my friend - if you like my work, please check out my Kofi and consider commissioning me! 💕
https://www.ko-fi.com/andecoas/
#art #digitalart #procreate #emote #mastoart #commissionsopen #creativetoots #freelance #kofi #artist #tweyecontact #cweyecontact
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CW: Eye contact
Need to make money for groceries for my mother and I for the next few weeks.
$0//$150
Please consider snagging a $10 sketch request from me or a discounted commission. Sharing my page also helps a lot <3
#art #artist #digitalart #commissionsopen #mutualaid #mutualaidrequest #MastoArt #CreativeToots #cweyecontact #tweyecontact #foodsecurity #emergencycommissions #sketch #lineart #illustration
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CW: Eye contact
Need to make $150 for groceries for the next few weeks for my mom and I.
$0//$150
Would appreciate if you could share my page with anyone interested. I offer $10 sketch requests as well as discounted commissions on Kofi. ❤️
https://www.ko-fi.com/andecoas/
#art #digitalart #artist #mutualaid #commissionsopen #donations #sketch #drawing #kofi #fanart #emergencycommissions #crowdfunding #MastoArt #CreativeToots #MutualAidRequest #foodsecurity #cweyecontact #tweyecontact
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CW: Eye contact
WIP of a PNGtuber for a supporter from Masto!
If you like my work, consider grabbing a sketch or comm from me on Kofi!
Currently doing sketch requests so I can feed my mom and I for a few more days 💕
$26 // $45https://www.ko-fi.com/andecoas/
#mastoart #creativetoots #tweyecontact #cweyecontact #commissionsopen #mutualaid #digitalart
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CW: Eye contact
Thinking of offering 10 slots for $15 instead of my usual comms.
Is that a more agreeable price?Examples attached - I could do flat color as well
https://www.ko-fi.com/andecoas/#mastoart #creativetoots #digitalart #mutualaid #commissionsopen #tweyecontact #cweyecontact
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CW: Eye contact
Falin from Dungeon Meshi
Doing comms and sketch requests on Kofi so my mom and I can eat this week 💕
https://www.ko-fi.com/andecoas/#mastoart #creativetoots #fanart #digitalart #kofi #commissionsopen #emergencycommissions #MutualAidRequest #foodsecurity #tweyecontact #cweyecontact
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CW: Eye contact
Izutsumi
If you’d like to support me and the work I do, I’m taking sketch requests for tips or comms on my Kofi.
In need of food for the next few weeks so any bit helps. Would like to have dinner tonight at least.ko-fi.com/andecoas
#art #artist #digitalart #fanart #mutualaid #creativetoots #mastoart #dungeonmeshi #izutsumi #commissionsopen #tweyecontact #cweyecontact
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CW: Eye contact
Chilchuck from Dungeon Meshi
My comms are always open!
I’m doing sketch requests for $5-10 tips on Kofi if anyone would like to help me get dinner for my mom and I tonight. 🩷#art #digitalart #CreativeToots #mastoart #commissionsopen #mutualaid #dungeonmeshi #tweyecontact #cweyecontact
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CW: Eye contact
Chilchuck WIP 😊
Doing sketch requests for tips on Kofi so I can get dinner tonight.
Feed me pls 💜
https://www.ko-fi.com/andecoas/#art #digitalart #procreate #artist #KofiCommissions #mutualaid #signalboost #commissionsopen #donations #sketch #drawing #kofi #fanart #DungeonMeshi #chilchuck #WIP #tweyecontact #cweyecontact
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CW: Eye contact
Drew Marcille from Dungeon Meshi!
If you like my work, please consider supporting me on Kofi. I need to make $150 in 6 days for bills.
I would appreciate being put to work 🫶https://www.ko-fi.com/andecoas/
#art #digitalart #fanart #dungeonmeshi #marcille #emergencycommissions #mutualaid #creativetoots #mastoart #tweyecontact #cweyecontact
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CW: Eye contact
URGENT
Need to make $150 in 6 days
Tried a new coloring style but I don’t know how I feel about some parts. Always good to try new things! If you enjoy my work, my commissions are always open 🩷
$0//$150
https://www.ko-fi.com/andecoas/
#senshi #fanart #art #digitalart #artist #creativetoots #mastoart #dungeonmeshi #mutualaid #emergencycommissions #cweyecontact #tweyecontact
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CW: Eye contact, flickering images
Don’t have much artwork to do lately, but made this for a streamer friend of mine
If you like my work, consider c/mmissi/ning me on Kofi 🫶
https://www.ko-fi.com/andecoas/#art #artist #digitalart #procreate #twitch #emote #streamer #pngtuber #artcommissions #overwatch #mutualaid #commissionsopen #selfpromo #mastoart #creativetoots #gif #cwflashingimages #twflickeringimages #tweyecontact #cweyecontact
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CW: Eye contact, flickering image
Felt like drawing the little guy from Cult of the Lamb!
If you like my work, consider commissioning or supporting me on Kofi 💜
Ko-fi.com/andecoas
#art #artist #digitalart #commissionsopen #artprocess #fanart #videogame #cultofthelamb #kofi #mutualaid #mastoart #creativetoots #animated #gif #cweyecontact #tweyecontact #cwflickeringimages #twflickeringimages
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CW: Scheduled OSgrid downtime next week, memed for obvious reasons; CW: long post (over 4,150 characters), mostly due to the image description (over 3,650 characters), lots of hashtags (18; over 200 characters), link to meme, link to Star Wars prequel meme, link to eye contact
OSgrid has announced a scheduled downtime from Wednesday, January 10th, to Saturday, January 13th.
Given OSgrid's track record, I could impossibly not meme it. Here's the link. Content warning: eye contact, hence no embedding the image in the post itself. Sorry for having you open another webpage.Image description
The linked image macro is based on the "For the better, right?" meme, also known as "Anakin and Padmé".
It consists of four still captures from the film Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones, cropped to squares around one character each and arranged in two rows of two images. The two images on the left show young Anakin Skywalker in a spring meadow inmidst high grass and various blooming flowers, the two images on the right show young Padmé Amidala in the same meadow.
The caption at the bottom of the top left image has Anakin say, "OSgrid will have a scheduled three-day downtime, starting on Wednesday, January 10th."
The top right image shows Padmé happy with a caption at the bottom that has her say, "Oh, no problem, it'll be back online on Saturday."
The bottom left image does not have a caption, implying that Anakin doesn't say anything.
In the bottom right image, Padmé's expression has changed to sceptical, and the caption at the bottom has her say, "It will be back online on Saturday, right?"
Padmé's scepticism refers to OSgrid's track record of maintenance downtimes always taking a lot longer than scheduled or expected.
OSgrid is a 3-D virtual world, a so-called "grid", based on OpenSimulator, a free and open-source server-side re-implementation of the technology of Second Life.
Second Life is a commercial 3-D virtual world created by Philip Rosedale, also known as Philip Linden, of Linden Labs and launched in 2003. It is a so-called "pancake" virtual world which is accessed through desktop or laptop computers using standard 2-D screens rather than virtual reality headsets. Second Life had its heyday in 2007 and 2008. It is often believed to have shut down in late 2008 or early 2009 when the constant stream of news about it broke away, but in fact, it celebrated its 20th birthday in 2023, and it is still evolving.
OpenSimulator, OpenSim in short, was first published in January, 2007. Unlike Second Life, it is not one monolithic, centralised world. It is rather a server application for worlds or "grids" like Second Life which anyone could run on either rented Web space or at home, given a sufficiently powerful computer and a sufficiently fast and reliable land-line Internet connection. This makes OpenSim as decentralised as the Fediverse. The introduction of the Hypergrid in 2008 made it possible for avatars registered on one OpenSim grid to travel to most other OpenSim grids.
Second Life and the OpenSim-based worlds are called "grids" because they are flat worlds divided into square areas of 256 by 256 metres each which is roughly 280 by 280 yards. These areas are called "regions".
OSgrid is the oldest OpenSim grid. Launched in summer 2007, about half a year after the initial release of OpenSim, it was the first public OpenSim grid. It is also the largest OpenSim grid by registered users, active users including Hypergrid visitors and landmass. Since 2023, OpenSim has had a bigger landmass than Second Life.
At the same time, OSgrid has always been a testbed for new developments in OpenSim instead of running a stable release of OpenSim. This, together with its sheer size and its age, still carrying over lots of contents from over a decade and a half ago, made it hard to maintain. Especially the asset server which handles the contents both in-world and in the avatars' inventories tends to cause trouble and downtimes which, while expected to be a day or two, might last for over two weeks.
Thus, Padmé's reaction symbolises the scepticism that when OSgrid announces to be offline for three days due to a server migration, it will actually be back online after these three days.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #OpenSim #OpenSimulator #OSgrid #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #Meme #StarWars #StarWarsMeme #StarWarsMemes #PrequelMeme #PrequelMemes #AnakinAndPadme #EyeContact #CWEyeContact -
CW: Friendica is connected to Zuck's corporation again; CW: long (1,444 characters), eye contact, meme, Meta, Threads, Facebook, Zuckerberg, Fediverse beyond Mastodon meta, Fediverse meta
So Threads is opening itself to the Fediverse?
Remember, kids, that there already used to be a connection between what's the Fediverse today and what's Meta today. That was in 2011 when Friendica one-sidedly established bidirectional federation with Facebook. No, I'm not even kidding. Friendica was fully federated with Facebook. It did require a Facebook account, but still, you could use Facebook without actually using Facebook. People would mirror their entire Facebook timelines into Friendica.
This ended when Facebook found out and changed its developer TOS: Third-party applications that connect to Facebook were only allowed to send data to Facebook, but no longer to extract data from Facebook. This led to the slow death of Friendica's Facebook connector.
Fast-forward to 2023: Facebook (the corporation) is now Meta. And they've created their own micro-blogging service for the Fediverse, namely Threads. And now they're opening it to the Fediverse.
Remember that Friendica is still part of that self-same Fediverse.
And what do you know: One of the very very very first connections to Threads came from, wait for it, Friendica!
I think this calls for a variation on the good old Moe Tossing Barney Out meme.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #Threads #Meta #Fediverse #Friendica #Facebook #Federation #Meme #FediMeme #MoeTossingBarneyOut #TheSimpsons #FediverseMeta #FediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #EyeContact #CWEyeContact -
CW: One does not simply...; CW: long (slightly over 1,600 characters, not counting markup), eye contact in linked and previewed image
Okay, since I won't be able to have pictures blurred out on Mastodon, here's a new approach: linking them instead of embedding them.
Anyway, this is what happens when the DJs at your virtual events are too good: They turn you into a music snob with high expectations.
Here is the picture which I hope Mastodon will hide behind the content warning. If I had embedded it like I usually do, Mastodon would put it into plain sight for everyone, including people easily triggered by eye contact, regardless of the content warning.
It is based on the One Does Not Simply Walk Into Mordor meme.
This time, what Boromir says is, "One does not simply get away with playing the single versions of Purple Rain and Nights In White Satin to us." If anyone who is not fully sighted wants to know more details about the image, ask. I'm trying to slim down the image description this time, also since the image is not actually part of this post.
It refers to the DJ events I regularly attend in virtual worlds. Our local DJs usually don't play single versions or radio edits. They prefer album versions, no matter how long they are, whether it's "Purple Rain" by Prince & The Revolution (8:41), "Nights In White Satin" (7:22) or even "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" by Iron Butterfly (17:03) or "Tarkus" by Emerson, Lake & Palmer (20:41). So when we're elsewhere, and the DJ plays a shortened single or radio version of one of these (except "Tarkus"), we're easily disappointed.
#OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #Meme #OneDoesNotSimply #OldMemesNeverDie #Long #LongPost #CW #CWLong #EyeContact #CWEyeContact -
CW: Eye contact
Made an emote of my friend's puppy. Check out my Kofi if you're interested in getting 2 emotes for $25
https://www.ko-fi.com/andecoas/goal/
Saving up to pay of my credit card bills and transportation to the doctor this month. ($19/$175) 💕
#art #digitalart #procreate #artist #KofiCommissions #mutualaid #signalboost #commissionsopen #donations #sketch #fanart #mutualaid #artistsupport #MastoArt #CreativeToots #selfpromo #cweyecontact #twitchemotes #tweyecontact #puppy
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(Apologies for not protecting Mastodon users from this long post and from the contained eye contact, but I lack the technical capabilities for either. I'm not on Mastodon. I'm on Hubzilla which is not Mastodon, which is not based on Mastodon, which is not influenced by Mastodon, which is older than Mastodon and which works differently from Mastodon. On Hubzilla, this is not a stand-alone post. It's a comment like a blog comment. Comments don't have a field for summaries which are content warnings on Mastodon. Also, on Hubzilla, I have no means at all to blank sensitive images out on Mastodon.)
@Alt Text Hall of Fame@Jupiter Rowland I don't think it's necessary to describe everything in a picture.
That depends on the picture.
Real-life photographs, the most common kind of image in the Fediverse, are something people are familiar with, and they usually show something that's at least halfway familiar, so they don't necessarily need everything described.
Pictures from obscure 3-D virtual worlds, and that's what I post, are pictures taken in places that nobody knows and full of stuff that nobody knows. If I do what one usually does with real-life photographs, if I only the describe the bare minimum without explaining anything, the people simply won't get my pictures.
For demonstrational purposes, I have attached three pictures with fairly minimal alt-texts. They don't describe what anything looks like, they don't explain anything, not even where the pictures were made, and they don't transcribe any of the text in the pictures. They're basically useless even though they're still longer than most alt-texts for real-life photographs.
Full descriptions can be found in the post linked below which is almost 77,000 characters long due to the image descriptions (the same content warnings apply here again). Due to technical difficulties, I can't link to a Mastodon copy of it, only to the Hubzilla original. If you want to see it on Mastodon proper, search the hashtag #OSFest2023.
https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/item/8c2b4728-dda5-498b-9f84-2f11e163a4a5This poll is a bit hard to read because of the included "view results" option, but it seems that blind people do generally prefer short, to the point descriptions over overly detailed ones.
#^https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/110848657796445471
Yes, but about two of them for each one who prefers detailed descriptions.How about using a shorter description that focuses on why the picture is important to you, and then elaborating in a reply for those who do want more detail?
Just a thought.
From what I've read so far, putting the image description someplace else than the image isn't really accessible.
#AltText #ImageDescription #ImageDescriptions #Accessibility #A11y #Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #EyeContact #CWEyeContact