clara

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[โ€“] clara@feddit.uk 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

i went down a rabbit hole last night about this, and found that there still isn't good support for alt text tagging on lemmy.

closest i found for emojis is something like this: ๐Ÿ‘‹

at the end of the previous sentence, i included an emoji of a hand waving goodbye, and i have attempted to tag it using markdown. but, my suspicion is that it tries to read the alt text as a link, and it therefore doesn't work.

this is apparently the best lemmy can do for emojis. i think that is not good enough, and this needs to be improved by the developers

thank you for providing me with a teachable moment about accessibility.

i will do my best to keep readability in mind for the future. <3

[โ€“] clara@feddit.uk 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

they don't read out at all? oh no! i would have thought that it would at least print words like "upside down smile" or "heart".

i will try my best to use them as an enhancement only then, like, to maybe only emphasize a statement instead of including them mid-text.

example 1) i am happy with this ๐Ÿ™‚

versus

example 2) i am ๐Ÿ™‚ with this.

in example 1, i have included a "smile" emoji at the end of the statement. in example 2, i replaced the word "happy" with a "smile" emoji.

if example 2 causes grief, then i will try my best to never write like that again.

[โ€“] clara@feddit.uk 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

that's very fair, i didn't consider the impact of what i said as i was writing it, i only wished to contextualise the decision making process behind the domain, (which was done in a time crunch). for my poor writing style in this regard, i am sorry.

likewise, no reason you should know this, but for what it's worth, i will state that i am autistic, and i am extremely bad with these types of political considerations when writing, talking, or anything really. you would think i would be more aware of the circumstances that others face given my difficulties but, well, that's the thing with my conditon, isn't it ๐Ÿ˜…. this is why i haven't opted to help out in a mod/admin capacity, because i know that i would botch the communications side (from past experience)

i understand where you are coming from, and i hope you can likewise do this with me โค๏ธ

lastly, i will state that i am not trying to win anyone over with the post, i merely wished to answer the "how and why the name was purchased" part of your question. as you have said, i am happy to slow down and continue with the current system, now that we are saved, and that no major overhaul is needed just yet. the decisions taken were taken specifically because we would have been out of time, had we not been saved by today's events. were they good decisions? that's another question ๐Ÿ™‚


side question for you: how do emojis work on screen readers? i am someone who likes to include emojis in posts to directly convey my thinking, but i had never considered that they might read out strangely.

[โ€“] clara@feddit.uk 5 points 2 years ago

we are saved \o/

[โ€“] clara@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years ago (8 children)

you're right, but i'll point you to this, to save duplicate threading -> https://feddit.uk/comment/3713552

[โ€“] clara@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

alright, i'll spot you some background info :)

the initial reasoning was that the domain decision would have been a fait accompli for us all - if feddit.uk died, then users would either move to the new instance organized by the same power users, or accept moving elsewhere. as such, it would be a waste of time making a full forum post and spending weeks bickering on (what was) a dying forum, when none of the respondents would have been the ones putting their credit card on the line for it anyway. remember, at this point, there were no admin/mod facilities on feddit.uk - if someone wanted to go absolutely ham on the feddit.uk instance, we would have all be screwed. time was of the essence here

given the speed that things were moving to ensure a smooth transition, something had to give to speed up the process, and so a full community consent was one of those things on the chopping block. there just wasn't enough time for that before we faced full defederation and user exodus, on the initial timeline that was happening. however, a healthy debate was hosted for at least a week at the matrix space, and an approval vote was taken amongst those invested in the discussion, to whittle it down, such that progress could be made. the reasoning being, if a user was enough of an active user to have read all the feddit.uk meta threads that pointed them to the matrix space, and then joined that space to learn more, then they were obviously an invested user. users on feddit.uk were given plenty of pointers and hints to join the matrix space to discuss our future, and as such, it was confident that whatever was chosen through the vote by the matrix users would have had some community buy-in regardless of which option won.

for anyone with concerns about this from a "small cabal chooses a name" standpoint, consider that feddit.uk was decided by just one person. so, ๐Ÿคท. why care? it wouldn't have been the end of the world even if the domain was picked by executive fiat

domain was kept secret initially to prevent sniping, and secondly to prevent users trying to signup somewhere that wasn't ready, and getting frustrated. i.e, keep it secret until point of no return.


but now? well, now it's not so clear cut at all, lol. i'm thankful we didn't have to go through a community fracture, but there's a lot of work that must be shelved for the time being.

i think we need time for the dust to settle, let our new admins wrangle the website back into compliance with broader federation, and then we can have the identity debate.

when that time comes, i still vote for quackhouse though, absolutely 100%. it's far superior to every other option we raised. ๐Ÿฆ†

side note: my suggestion to anyone who wants to say "i dont like it" is to do better than to so easily say "i don't like it", and instead, provide your own damn counter proposal, and then say why yours is better. in the first week of discussion, we had quite a few "i dont like that" voices, and very little constructive "how about this?" voices. justify why your idea is better. ๐Ÿ’ช

[โ€“] clara@feddit.uk 31 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

alright, since i'm first up to comment, i'll start with an easy one

tiananmen square massacre denial should probably be banned or removed on sight.

i'm making this suggestion because there is a... particular... audience and demographic in the fediverse that for some reason, has issues with accepting this. i will not name this audience, because this same audience also likes to brigade posters that dare to stick their head up above the trenches and point out that actually, some of their takes might be verifiably wrong. i hope that not naming them reduces my chance of being detected, and then drawing targeted fire. one of us had to be the person to point it out, so i guess it's my turn.

by all means, debate casualty figures, sure. debate why there were protests, sure, that's not the thing i have issue. but if a poster is trying to sincerely argue that nothing happened, in my opinion, it's a strong indiciation that the poster is acting in bad faith

how to implement this as a rule? maybe i would go with "no denial of historically verified massacres"? it sounds obvious really, but if you don't spell it out, people can and will say "ahh but the mods didn't say i can't! ๐Ÿฅด"

i dunno how you want to go about it exactly, but yeah.

[โ€“] clara@feddit.uk 3 points 2 years ago

there are ongoing back-channel talks to secure release for the israeli "women, children, elderly, and sick" hostages from hamas. hamas in return, wants all 43 palestinian women prisoners, and about 170 palestinian "minor" prisoners (read: children) from israel. other than that, all bets are off. if you're not one of those categories of individuals, then it's good fight, good night.

source: gershon baskin, hostage negotatior, and kind of an unofficial intermediary? (remember, there's no official diplo channels anyway)

[โ€“] clara@feddit.uk 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

because an NT literally cannot handle the truth, i.e the actual, literal truth that you just said. they must dig for an implication or inference.

if you tell them, literally, exactly, "i'm going now because i'm exhausted, talk to you next time" an NT will make an inference, or find a hidden implication, because that's what NT brains do, that's how NT brains talk.

the inference here is "oh, they're exhausted by me, and so they don't like me?? oh noo :(((" when actually, the truth is literally, exactly what you said.

remember, your literal statement runs counter to 99% of their lived NT to NT social interactions, where their inferences do hold true, and if an NT told an NT that "ok, i'm exhausted, i'm going", that actually implies they don't like the other NT. you see what i mean?

these differences in language usage can be explained through the double empathy problem, it's well worth reading into.

so, the tiresome way to explain the truth, every time, is to explain that a) you have autism, b) you can get tired easily by social situations, and c) that it's not their fault. the problem with this approach is that a lot of NT interactions are "throwaway" interactions. classic example is two people walking on a sidewalk, and you both have dogs. you may or may not have to stop and talk to this person for a throwaway interaction, that will last 2 to 5 minutes, and you do not have time in this interaction to explain points a, b, and c. so, for their sake and yours, it's time to mask up! ๐Ÿฅธ

this is why you can't "just tell the truth".


furthe reading into the double empathy problem: Source 1, Source 2, Source 3

[โ€“] clara@feddit.uk 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

what's the joke

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