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N-gated Hacker News @[email protected] · 2026-05-28 · 20:51 UTC

Ah, the eternal struggle of open-source: where anyone can join, so naturally no one you want ever does. 😅 Of course, the #culture wars gave us solutions like the Contributor Covenant, because nothing says "inclusive community" like a list of rules only three people read. 🙄 Spoiler alert: rejecting everyone isn't a "strategy," it's just laziness with a side of #elitism. 🍷
https://justine.lol/animus/ #open-source #ContributorCovenant #inclusivity #communitymanagement #HackerNews #ngated

#culture #elitism #open #contributorcovenant #inclusivity #communitymanagement

N-gated Hacker News @[email protected] · 2026-05-28 · 20:51 UTC

Ah, the eternal struggle of open-source: where anyone can join, so naturally no one you want ever does. 😅 Of course, the #culture wars gave us solutions like the Contributor Covenant, because nothing says "inclusive community" like a list of rules only three people read. 🙄 Spoiler alert: rejecting everyone isn't a "strategy," it's just laziness with a side of #elitism. 🍷
https://justine.lol/animus/ #open-source #ContributorCovenant #inclusivity #communitymanagement #HackerNews #ngated

#culture #elitism #open #contributorcovenant #inclusivity #communitymanagement

N-gated Hacker News @[email protected] · 2026-05-28 · 20:51 UTC

Ah, the eternal struggle of open-source: where anyone can join, so naturally no one you want ever does. 😅 Of course, the #culture wars gave us solutions like the Contributor Covenant, because nothing says "inclusive community" like a list of rules only three people read. 🙄 Spoiler alert: rejecting everyone isn't a "strategy," it's just laziness with a side of #elitism. 🍷
https://justine.lol/animus/ #open-source #ContributorCovenant #inclusivity #communitymanagement #HackerNews #ngated

#culture #elitism #open #contributorcovenant #inclusivity #communitymanagement

N-gated Hacker News @[email protected] · 2026-05-28 · 20:51 UTC

Ah, the eternal struggle of open-source: where anyone can join, so naturally no one you want ever does. 😅 Of course, the #culture wars gave us solutions like the Contributor Covenant, because nothing says "inclusive community" like a list of rules only three people read. 🙄 Spoiler alert: rejecting everyone isn't a "strategy," it's just laziness with a side of #elitism. 🍷
https://justine.lol/animus/ #open-source #ContributorCovenant #inclusivity #communitymanagement #HackerNews #ngated

#ngated #hackernews #communitymanagement #inclusivity #contributorcovenant #open

N-gated Hacker News @[email protected] · 2026-05-28 · 20:51 UTC

Ah, the eternal struggle of open-source: where anyone can join, so naturally no one you want ever does. 😅 Of course, the #culture wars gave us solutions like the Contributor Covenant, because nothing says "inclusive community" like a list of rules only three people read. 🙄 Spoiler alert: rejecting everyone isn't a "strategy," it's just laziness with a side of #elitism. 🍷
https://justine.lol/animus/ #open-source #ContributorCovenant #inclusivity #communitymanagement #HackerNews #ngated

#culture #elitism #open #contributorcovenant #inclusivity #communitymanagement

Eye @[email protected] · 2026-05-23 · 10:32 UTC

I don't think some people understand that there's quite a good proportion of blind or partially-sighted folk here on Fedi.

It's why so many of us add Alt Text to our photos, memes or artwork.

And it's why some people's photos, memes or artwork is only liked, but not boosted like it should be.

#AltText
#Inclusivity

#alttext #inclusivity

Eye @[email protected] · 2026-05-23 · 10:32 UTC

I don't think some people understand that there's quite a good proportion of blind or partially-sighted folk here on Fedi.

It's why so many of us add Alt Text to our photos, memes or artwork.

And it's why some people's photos, memes or artwork is only liked, but not boosted like it should be.

#AltText
#Inclusivity

#alttext #inclusivity

Eye @[email protected] · 2026-05-23 · 10:32 UTC

I don't think some people understand that there's quite a good proportion of blind or partially-sighted folk here on Fedi.

It's why so many of us add Alt Text to our photos, memes or artwork.

And it's why some people's photos, memes or artwork is only liked, but not boosted like it should be.

#AltText
#Inclusivity

#alttext #inclusivity

Eye @[email protected] · 2026-05-23 · 10:32 UTC

I don't think some people understand that there's quite a good proportion of blind or partially-sighted folk here on Fedi.

It's why so many of us add Alt Text to our photos, memes or artwork.

And it's why some people's photos, memes or artwork is only liked, but not boosted like it should be.

#AltText
#Inclusivity

#inclusivity #alttext

Eye @[email protected] · 2026-05-23 · 10:32 UTC

I don't think some people understand that there's quite a good proportion of blind or partially-sighted folk here on Fedi.

It's why so many of us add Alt Text to our photos, memes or artwork.

And it's why some people's photos, memes or artwork is only liked, but not boosted like it should be.

#AltText
#Inclusivity

#alttext #inclusivity

Jupiter Rowland @[email protected] · 2026-05-17 · 05:54 UTC

@Truth Collector It's really hard to explain to a neurotypical person who absolutely doesn't know this feeling, and who absolutely can't relate to it. It's even harder for me because I, personally, don't know this feeling from first-hand experience myself.

In addition, it isn't just "yes" or "no". Different people experience eye contact differently, and different people may feel uncomfortable about it in different ways.

I've read somewhere (I don't know where, and I don't have a link) that some neurodivergent people, upon seeing a picture with eye contact, feel like the person on that picture is looking through their eyes, right into their brain, their mind, their very soul. In this case, it feels intrusive to them. Even though it's "only" a picture.

But it isn't necessarily that and only that. Here's a quote-post from someone on Mastodon who actually is autistic, and who explains what images with eye contact feel like to them individually.

RE: https://mastodon.moule.world/@MOULE/112839238866393700

Also, there is this comment on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/18x1rdm/comment/kg75s54/.

I'm not diagnosed, but have always hated eye contact to the point where people on the cover of magazines would disturb me, specially those in the pile of magazines you'll find in the toilets, I would always turn them over to hide the faces. Now I wouldn't need a CW for that online, but depending on the context it does make me feel uneasy. I've been staying at my sister's over the holidays, she has pictures of family and friends on her fridge, I would sit with my back turned to it and feel like I was being stared at.

Unfortunately, there are no peer-reviewed scientific papers or reports about this. All there is about neurodivergence and eye contact is about how neurodivergent people don't make and maintain eye contact in conversations. And these tend to immediately and only go into the direction of "they don't do that because they can't recognise faces". Neuroscientists seem to only have understood this phenomenon that far (probably also because literally every last neuroscientist is as bog-standard neurotypical as they ever come, so there are none who can analyse their own experiences).

This may also be because this entire phenomenon is so very obscure. It's only an issue in a few select online spaces. It probably originated on pre-Yahoo! Tumblr which was chock-full of neurodivergent young people up and down and and back and forth across the whole spectrum. I guess one reason why they used Tumblr was that it had a dedicated content warning field, much like the one on Mastodon, only that it was invented from scratch for this purpose and not, like on Mastodon, a re-purposed text field that originally had a wholly different use (true story).

But this whole phenomenon only existed on Tumblr and nowhere else on the Web, much less in real life.

When Yahoo! took over Tumblr, they changed the rules in such way that entire communities were driven away, including many neurodivergent users. They often found a new home on Twitter. But Twitter doesn't have a dedicated content warning field, so the entire concept of CW-ing topics that may trigger people or make them feel unbearably uncomfortable lay dormant there.

It only came back when many of those who had been chased away from Tumblr to Twitter when Yahoo! took over Tumblr were chased away from Twitter to Mastodon when Elon Musk toook over Twitter. And Mastodon does have a CW field. So this entire concept was revived.

Unlike Tumblr, however, the greater Fediverse is not a place where enclosed and totally secluded bubbles can exist, at least not at the same degree as on Tumblr. Especially not if Mastodon is involved. So you have young neurodivergent people whom a whole lot of things may turn into quivering nervous wrecks for reasons that even their shrinks would fail to understand if they had any. They demand just about everything be CW'd. And they inevitably encounter much more mentally stable, bog-standard neurotypical people who are like, "Can't relate, don't understand, not gonna comply."

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #CW #CWs #CWMeta #ContentWarning #ContentWarnings #ContentWarningMeta #EyeContactMeta #CWEyeContactMeta #Autism #Autistic #Neurodivergent #Neurodivergence #Inclusion #Inclusivity #A11y #Accessibility

#contentwarningmeta #cweyecontactmeta #cwfediversemeta #contentwarnings #neurodivergence #contentwarning

Jupiter Rowland @[email protected] · 2026-05-17 · 05:54 UTC

@Truth Collector It's really hard to explain to a neurotypical person who absolutely doesn't know this feeling, and who absolutely can't relate to it. It's even harder for me because I, personally, don't know this feeling from first-hand experience myself.

In addition, it isn't just "yes" or "no". Different people experience eye contact differently, and different people may feel uncomfortable about it in different ways.

I've read somewhere (I don't know where, and I don't have a link) that some neurodivergent people, upon seeing a picture with eye contact, feel like the person on that picture is looking through their eyes, right into their brain, their mind, their very soul. In this case, it feels intrusive to them. Even though it's "only" a picture.

But it isn't necessarily that and only that. Here's a quote-post from someone on Mastodon who actually is autistic, and who explains what images with eye contact feel like to them individually.

RE: https://mastodon.moule.world/@MOULE/112839238866393700

Also, there is this comment on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/18x1rdm/comment/kg75s54/.

I'm not diagnosed, but have always hated eye contact to the point where people on the cover of magazines would disturb me, specially those in the pile of magazines you'll find in the toilets, I would always turn them over to hide the faces. Now I wouldn't need a CW for that online, but depending on the context it does make me feel uneasy. I've been staying at my sister's over the holidays, she has pictures of family and friends on her fridge, I would sit with my back turned to it and feel like I was being stared at.

Unfortunately, there are no peer-reviewed scientific papers or reports about this. All there is about neurodivergence and eye contact is about how neurodivergent people don't make and maintain eye contact in conversations. And these tend to immediately and only go into the direction of "they don't do that because they can't recognise faces". Neuroscientists seem to only have understood this phenomenon that far (probably also because literally every last neuroscientist is as bog-standard neurotypical as they ever come, so there are none who can analyse their own experiences).

This may also be because this entire phenomenon is so very obscure. It's only an issue in a few select online spaces. It probably originated on pre-Yahoo! Tumblr which was chock-full of neurodivergent young people up and down and and back and forth across the whole spectrum. I guess one reason why they used Tumblr was that it had a dedicated content warning field, much like the one on Mastodon, only that it was invented from scratch for this purpose and not, like on Mastodon, a re-purposed text field that originally had a wholly different use (true story).

But this whole phenomenon only existed on Tumblr and nowhere else on the Web, much less in real life.

When Yahoo! took over Tumblr, they changed the rules in such way that entire communities were driven away, including many neurodivergent users. They often found a new home on Twitter. But Twitter doesn't have a dedicated content warning field, so the entire concept of CW-ing topics that may trigger people or make them feel unbearably uncomfortable lay dormant there.

It only came back when many of those who had been chased away from Tumblr to Twitter when Yahoo! took over Tumblr were chased away from Twitter to Mastodon when Elon Musk toook over Twitter. And Mastodon does have a CW field. So this entire concept was revived.

Unlike Tumblr, however, the greater Fediverse is not a place where enclosed and totally secluded bubbles can exist, at least not at the same degree as on Tumblr. Especially not if Mastodon is involved. So you have young neurodivergent people whom a whole lot of things may turn into quivering nervous wrecks for reasons that even their shrinks would fail to understand if they had any. They demand just about everything be CW'd. And they inevitably encounter much more mentally stable, bog-standard neurotypical people who are like, "Can't relate, don't understand, not gonna comply."

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #CW #CWs #CWMeta #ContentWarning #ContentWarnings #ContentWarningMeta #EyeContactMeta #CWEyeContactMeta #Autism #Autistic #Neurodivergent #Neurodivergence #Inclusion #Inclusivity #A11y #Accessibility

#contentwarningmeta #cweyecontactmeta #cwfediversemeta #contentwarnings #neurodivergence #contentwarning

Jupiter Rowland @[email protected] · 2026-05-17 · 05:54 UTC

@Truth Collector It's really hard to explain to a neurotypical person who absolutely doesn't know this feeling, and who absolutely can't relate to it. It's even harder for me because I, personally, don't know this feeling from first-hand experience myself.

In addition, it isn't just "yes" or "no". Different people experience eye contact differently, and different people may feel uncomfortable about it in different ways.

I've read somewhere (I don't know where, and I don't have a link) that some neurodivergent people, upon seeing a picture with eye contact, feel like the person on that picture is looking through their eyes, right into their brain, their mind, their very soul. In this case, it feels intrusive to them. Even though it's "only" a picture.

But it isn't necessarily that and only that. Here's a quote-post from someone on Mastodon who actually is autistic, and who explains what images with eye contact feel like to them individually.

RE: https://mastodon.moule.world/@MOULE/112839238866393700

Also, there is this comment on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/18x1rdm/comment/kg75s54/.

I'm not diagnosed, but have always hated eye contact to the point where people on the cover of magazines would disturb me, specially those in the pile of magazines you'll find in the toilets, I would always turn them over to hide the faces. Now I wouldn't need a CW for that online, but depending on the context it does make me feel uneasy. I've been staying at my sister's over the holidays, she has pictures of family and friends on her fridge, I would sit with my back turned to it and feel like I was being stared at.

Unfortunately, there are no peer-reviewed scientific papers or reports about this. All there is about neurodivergence and eye contact is about how neurodivergent people don't make and maintain eye contact in conversations. And these tend to immediately and only go into the direction of "they don't do that because they can't recognise faces". Neuroscientists seem to only have understood this phenomenon that far (probably also because literally every last neuroscientist is as bog-standard neurotypical as they ever come, so there are none who can analyse their own experiences).

This may also be because this entire phenomenon is so very obscure. It's only an issue in a few select online spaces. It probably originated on pre-Yahoo! Tumblr which was chock-full of neurodivergent young people up and down and and back and forth across the whole spectrum. I guess one reason why they used Tumblr was that it had a dedicated content warning field, much like the one on Mastodon, only that it was invented from scratch for this purpose and not, like on Mastodon, a re-purposed text field that originally had a wholly different use (true story).

But this whole phenomenon only existed on Tumblr and nowhere else on the Web, much less in real life.

When Yahoo! took over Tumblr, they changed the rules in such way that entire communities were driven away, including many neurodivergent users. They often found a new home on Twitter. But Twitter doesn't have a dedicated content warning field, so the entire concept of CW-ing topics that may trigger people or make them feel unbearably uncomfortable lay dormant there.

It only came back when many of those who had been chased away from Tumblr to Twitter when Yahoo! took over Tumblr were chased away from Twitter to Mastodon when Elon Musk toook over Twitter. And Mastodon does have a CW field. So this entire concept was revived.

Unlike Tumblr, however, the greater Fediverse is not a place where enclosed and totally secluded bubbles can exist, at least not at the same degree as on Tumblr. Especially not if Mastodon is involved. So you have young neurodivergent people whom a whole lot of things may turn into quivering nervous wrecks for reasons that even their shrinks would fail to understand if they had any. They demand just about everything be CW'd. And they inevitably encounter much more mentally stable, bog-standard neurotypical people who are like, "Can't relate, don't understand, not gonna comply."

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #CW #CWs #CWMeta #ContentWarning #ContentWarnings #ContentWarningMeta #EyeContactMeta #CWEyeContactMeta #Autism #Autistic #Neurodivergent #Neurodivergence #Inclusion #Inclusivity #A11y #Accessibility

#contentwarningmeta #cweyecontactmeta #cwfediversemeta #contentwarnings #neurodivergence #contentwarning

Jupiter Rowland @[email protected] · 2026-05-17 · 05:54 UTC

@Truth Collector It's really hard to explain to a neurotypical person who absolutely doesn't know this feeling, and who absolutely can't relate to it. It's even harder for me because I, personally, don't know this feeling from first-hand experience myself.

In addition, it isn't just "yes" or "no". Different people experience eye contact differently, and different people may feel uncomfortable about it in different ways.

I've read somewhere (I don't know where, and I don't have a link) that some neurodivergent people, upon seeing a picture with eye contact, feel like the person on that picture is looking through their eyes, right into their brain, their mind, their very soul. In this case, it feels intrusive to them. Even though it's "only" a picture.

But it isn't necessarily that and only that. Here's a quote-post from someone on Mastodon who actually is autistic, and who explains what images with eye contact feel like to them individually.

RE: https://mastodon.moule.world/@MOULE/112839238866393700

Also, there is this comment on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/18x1rdm/comment/kg75s54/.

I'm not diagnosed, but have always hated eye contact to the point where people on the cover of magazines would disturb me, specially those in the pile of magazines you'll find in the toilets, I would always turn them over to hide the faces. Now I wouldn't need a CW for that online, but depending on the context it does make me feel uneasy. I've been staying at my sister's over the holidays, she has pictures of family and friends on her fridge, I would sit with my back turned to it and feel like I was being stared at.

Unfortunately, there are no peer-reviewed scientific papers or reports about this. All there is about neurodivergence and eye contact is about how neurodivergent people don't make and maintain eye contact in conversations. And these tend to immediately and only go into the direction of "they don't do that because they can't recognise faces". Neuroscientists seem to only have understood this phenomenon that far (probably also because literally every last neuroscientist is as bog-standard neurotypical as they ever come, so there are none who can analyse their own experiences).

This may also be because this entire phenomenon is so very obscure. It's only an issue in a few select online spaces. It probably originated on pre-Yahoo! Tumblr which was chock-full of neurodivergent young people up and down and and back and forth across the whole spectrum. I guess one reason why they used Tumblr was that it had a dedicated content warning field, much like the one on Mastodon, only that it was invented from scratch for this purpose and not, like on Mastodon, a re-purposed text field that originally had a wholly different use (true story).

But this whole phenomenon only existed on Tumblr and nowhere else on the Web, much less in real life.

When Yahoo! took over Tumblr, they changed the rules in such way that entire communities were driven away, including many neurodivergent users. They often found a new home on Twitter. But Twitter doesn't have a dedicated content warning field, so the entire concept of CW-ing topics that may trigger people or make them feel unbearably uncomfortable lay dormant there.

It only came back when many of those who had been chased away from Tumblr to Twitter when Yahoo! took over Tumblr were chased away from Twitter to Mastodon when Elon Musk toook over Twitter. And Mastodon does have a CW field. So this entire concept was revived.

Unlike Tumblr, however, the greater Fediverse is not a place where enclosed and totally secluded bubbles can exist, at least not at the same degree as on Tumblr. Especially not if Mastodon is involved. So you have young neurodivergent people whom a whole lot of things may turn into quivering nervous wrecks for reasons that even their shrinks would fail to understand if they had any. They demand just about everything be CW'd. And they inevitably encounter much more mentally stable, bog-standard neurotypical people who are like, "Can't relate, don't understand, not gonna comply."

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #CW #CWs #CWMeta #ContentWarning #ContentWarnings #ContentWarningMeta #EyeContactMeta #CWEyeContactMeta #Autism #Autistic #Neurodivergent #Neurodivergence #Inclusion #Inclusivity #A11y #Accessibility

#cw #cws #a11y #long #autism #cwmeta

Jupiter Rowland @[email protected] · 2026-05-17 · 05:54 UTC

@Truth Collector It's really hard to explain to a neurotypical person who absolutely doesn't know this feeling, and who absolutely can't relate to it. It's even harder for me because I, personally, don't know this feeling from first-hand experience myself.

In addition, it isn't just "yes" or "no". Different people experience eye contact differently, and different people may feel uncomfortable about it in different ways.

I've read somewhere (I don't know where, and I don't have a link) that some neurodivergent people, upon seeing a picture with eye contact, feel like the person on that picture is looking through their eyes, right into their brain, their mind, their very soul. In this case, it feels intrusive to them. Even though it's "only" a picture.

But it isn't necessarily that and only that. Here's a quote-post from someone on Mastodon who actually is autistic, and who explains what images with eye contact feel like to them individually.

RE: https://mastodon.moule.world/@MOULE/112839238866393700

Also, there is this comment on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/18x1rdm/comment/kg75s54/.

I'm not diagnosed, but have always hated eye contact to the point where people on the cover of magazines would disturb me, specially those in the pile of magazines you'll find in the toilets, I would always turn them over to hide the faces. Now I wouldn't need a CW for that online, but depending on the context it does make me feel uneasy. I've been staying at my sister's over the holidays, she has pictures of family and friends on her fridge, I would sit with my back turned to it and feel like I was being stared at.

Unfortunately, there are no peer-reviewed scientific papers or reports about this. All there is about neurodivergence and eye contact is about how neurodivergent people don't make and maintain eye contact in conversations. And these tend to immediately and only go into the direction of "they don't do that because they can't recognise faces". Neuroscientists seem to only have understood this phenomenon that far (probably also because literally every last neuroscientist is as bog-standard neurotypical as they ever come, so there are none who can analyse their own experiences).

This may also be because this entire phenomenon is so very obscure. It's only an issue in a few select online spaces. It probably originated on pre-Yahoo! Tumblr which was chock-full of neurodivergent young people up and down and and back and forth across the whole spectrum. I guess one reason why they used Tumblr was that it had a dedicated content warning field, much like the one on Mastodon, only that it was invented from scratch for this purpose and not, like on Mastodon, a re-purposed text field that originally had a wholly different use (true story).

But this whole phenomenon only existed on Tumblr and nowhere else on the Web, much less in real life.

When Yahoo! took over Tumblr, they changed the rules in such way that entire communities were driven away, including many neurodivergent users. They often found a new home on Twitter. But Twitter doesn't have a dedicated content warning field, so the entire concept of CW-ing topics that may trigger people or make them feel unbearably uncomfortable lay dormant there.

It only came back when many of those who had been chased away from Tumblr to Twitter when Yahoo! took over Tumblr were chased away from Twitter to Mastodon when Elon Musk toook over Twitter. And Mastodon does have a CW field. So this entire concept was revived.

Unlike Tumblr, however, the greater Fediverse is not a place where enclosed and totally secluded bubbles can exist, at least not at the same degree as on Tumblr. Especially not if Mastodon is involved. So you have young neurodivergent people whom a whole lot of things may turn into quivering nervous wrecks for reasons that even their shrinks would fail to understand if they had any. They demand just about everything be CW'd. And they inevitably encounter much more mentally stable, bog-standard neurotypical people who are like, "Can't relate, don't understand, not gonna comply."

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #CW #CWs #CWMeta #ContentWarning #ContentWarnings #ContentWarningMeta #EyeContactMeta #CWEyeContactMeta #Autism #Autistic #Neurodivergent #Neurodivergence #Inclusion #Inclusivity #A11y #Accessibility

#contentwarningmeta #cweyecontactmeta #cwfediversemeta #contentwarnings #neurodivergence #contentwarning

PregNuki Raccoon: Shitposting for 2 (at least!) @[email protected] · 2026-05-16 · 15:06 UTC

I feel like this sort of #accessibility / #inclusivity feature is a good addition even if you're not a #therian / #otherkin, or even a #furry. Sometimes, it's just fun to see the checkbox ask if you are a "creature" or "entity" or are "sapient" instead of the old "human or robot" dichotomy.

https://beeps.website/blog/2023-04-27-otherkin-friendly-captchas-revisited/

#computers #internet #fun

#accessibility #inclusivity #therian #otherkin #furry #computers

PregNuki Raccoon: Shitposting for 2 (at least!) @[email protected] · 2026-05-16 · 15:06 UTC

I feel like this sort of #accessibility / #inclusivity feature is a good addition even if you're not a #therian / #otherkin, or even a #furry. Sometimes, it's just fun to see the checkbox ask if you are a "creature" or "entity" or are "sapient" instead of the old "human or robot" dichotomy.

https://beeps.website/blog/2023-04-27-otherkin-friendly-captchas-revisited/

#computers #internet #fun

#accessibility #inclusivity #therian #otherkin #furry #computers

PregNuki Raccoon: Shitposting for 2 (at least!) @[email protected] · 2026-05-16 · 15:06 UTC

I feel like this sort of #accessibility / #inclusivity feature is a good addition even if you're not a #therian / #otherkin, or even a #furry. Sometimes, it's just fun to see the checkbox ask if you are a "creature" or "entity" or are "sapient" instead of the old "human or robot" dichotomy.

https://beeps.website/blog/2023-04-27-otherkin-friendly-captchas-revisited/

#computers #internet #fun

#accessibility #inclusivity #therian #otherkin #furry #computers

PregNuki Raccoon: Shitposting for 2 (at least!) @[email protected] · 2026-05-16 · 15:06 UTC

I feel like this sort of #accessibility / #inclusivity feature is a good addition even if you're not a #therian / #otherkin, or even a #furry. Sometimes, it's just fun to see the checkbox ask if you are a "creature" or "entity" or are "sapient" instead of the old "human or robot" dichotomy.

https://beeps.website/blog/2023-04-27-otherkin-friendly-captchas-revisited/

#computers #internet #fun

#fun #internet #computers #furry #otherkin #therian

PregNuki Raccoon: Shitposting for 2 (at least!) @[email protected] · 2026-05-16 · 15:06 UTC

I feel like this sort of #accessibility / #inclusivity feature is a good addition even if you're not a #therian / #otherkin, or even a #furry. Sometimes, it's just fun to see the checkbox ask if you are a "creature" or "entity" or are "sapient" instead of the old "human or robot" dichotomy.

https://beeps.website/blog/2023-04-27-otherkin-friendly-captchas-revisited/

#computers #internet #fun

#accessibility #inclusivity #therian #otherkin #furry #computers

Jupiter Rowland @[email protected] · 2026-05-15 · 19:17 UTC

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

#contentwarningmeta #cweyecontactmeta #cwfediversemeta #contentwarnings #neurodivergence #contentwarning

Jupiter Rowland @[email protected] · 2026-05-15 · 19:17 UTC

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

#contentwarningmeta #cweyecontactmeta #cwfediversemeta #contentwarnings #neurodivergence #contentwarning

Jupiter Rowland @[email protected] · 2026-05-15 · 19:17 UTC

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

#contentwarningmeta #cweyecontactmeta #cwfediversemeta #contentwarnings #neurodivergence #contentwarning

Jupiter Rowland @[email protected] · 2026-05-15 · 19:17 UTC

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 #cws #a11y #long #autism #cwmeta

Jupiter Rowland @[email protected] · 2026-05-15 · 19:17 UTC

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

#contentwarningmeta #cweyecontactmeta #cwfediversemeta #contentwarnings #neurodivergence #contentwarning

Karthik S @[email protected] · 2026-05-13 · 06:27 UTC

7/7 So, this isn't groundbreaking storytelling yet, but it is groundbreaking media buying. Hopefully, the next iteration will move past the "lead-as-an-inspiration" phase and into a space where the product and the person share the stage more naturally.

#advertising #inclusivity #creativity #signlanguage

Karthik S @[email protected] · 2026-05-13 · 06:27 UTC

7/7 So, this isn't groundbreaking storytelling yet, but it is groundbreaking media buying. Hopefully, the next iteration will move past the "lead-as-an-inspiration" phase and into a space where the product and the person share the stage more naturally.

#advertising #inclusivity #creativity #signlanguage

Karthik S @[email protected] · 2026-05-13 · 06:27 UTC

7/7 So, this isn't groundbreaking storytelling yet, but it is groundbreaking media buying. Hopefully, the next iteration will move past the "lead-as-an-inspiration" phase and into a space where the product and the person share the stage more naturally.

#advertising #inclusivity #creativity #signlanguage

Karthik S @[email protected] · 2026-05-13 · 06:27 UTC

7/7 So, this isn't groundbreaking storytelling yet, but it is groundbreaking media buying. Hopefully, the next iteration will move past the "lead-as-an-inspiration" phase and into a space where the product and the person share the stage more naturally.

#advertising #inclusivity #creativity #signlanguage

#signlanguage #creativity #inclusivity #advertising

Karthik S @[email protected] · 2026-05-13 · 06:27 UTC

7/7 So, this isn't groundbreaking storytelling yet, but it is groundbreaking media buying. Hopefully, the next iteration will move past the "lead-as-an-inspiration" phase and into a space where the product and the person share the stage more naturally.

#advertising #inclusivity #creativity #signlanguage

Newsramp @[email protected] · 2026-05-13 · 00:34 UTC

Rashmi's Bakery: Celebrating 20 years of inclusive, custom cakes that bring people together. Egg-free, nut-free, and delivering joy across the GTA. Every slice tells a story of love and creativity. #CustomCakes #Inclusivity

#customcakes #inclusivity

Newsramp @[email protected] · 2026-05-13 · 00:34 UTC

Rashmi's Bakery: Celebrating 20 years of inclusive, custom cakes that bring people together. Egg-free, nut-free, and delivering joy across the GTA. Every slice tells a story of love and creativity. #CustomCakes #Inclusivity

#inclusivity #customcakes

Newsramp @[email protected] · 2026-05-13 · 00:34 UTC

Rashmi's Bakery: Celebrating 20 years of inclusive, custom cakes that bring people together. Egg-free, nut-free, and delivering joy across the GTA. Every slice tells a story of love and creativity. #CustomCakes #Inclusivity

#customcakes #inclusivity