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.

“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.

• 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

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

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 never turn it off

1- Kbin is newer and less known and more unstable

2- The top five growing Lemmy instances are full of bot/spam accounts

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)

@matty

Apart from adding alt text.

• Casing of multi-word tags: Always write the first letter of each word on a hashtag containing several word uppercase. This way screen readers and TTS software can interpret and read them as separated words. Otherwise it would read them as one nonsensical word

• Avoid fancy/special fonts: Screen readers/TTS software can’t read them as letters.

• I don’t think it’s going to be a problem here, but wordle is a nightmare for Screen readers/TTS software as they can’t detect the words and only describe the squares one by one. It’s better to screenshot it and add an explanation of the results in alt text.

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• 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.

• Transcribe all text.

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

• Explain the direction/order of the text.

The alt text it’s not visible (I particularly would prefer if it were), but I’ve had no problem reading alt text with my TTS app, so, don’t worry, it’s there.

P.S: Totally agree about the image preview

There’s alt text there. my phone’s TTS app is reading it no problem. But I’m having problems with it on browser i don’t know why

Puck Sfez

Please add text description to your images/screenshots

Tags are essential in the Fediverse because there’s no algorithm here. No “suggested” follow or posts. Post ( I’m talking about microblogging mostly) appear in chronological order solely. So if you want to search for toots/posts/microblogs of an specific topic, or connect with people that share a similar interest with you (outside of communities/magazines/groups), tags are the only option.

You mean if the instance I’m in defederated from one of them?

Well, I have a Beehaw account, so even if this server and Beehaw defederated, I’ll still have access to Beehaw-hosted content. Also, I tend to not participate in Beehaw communities from my kbin account.

I don’t care much about Lemmy World, my kbin instance (this one, the one I’m registered in) federates with it, cool, but I wouldn’t be angry if it didn’t.

I wouldn’t care either way.

But, there’s no actual risk of Beehaw defederating from any Kbin instance nor did the admins cut federation completely. People are making this issue way bigger than it actually is.

Beehaw didn’t defederate from everyone else, just from two instances. the threadiverse and the fediverse are much more bigger than these two servers.

I have no intention to ever go back to reddit, I’m quite happy with both lemmy and kbin. Just like I have no intention to ever go back to twitter, mastodon and akkoma (I’m yet to try calckey) having replaced it for me completely.

I left almost all centralised social media behind, except tumblr (which has a similar culture to the fediverse) and youtube.

I don’t know, I’d wait a bit more before declaring any of these new magazine/communities inactive or see any ill-intent in the users opening them.