@vga256 I remember folks excitedly trading around the "illegal Simpsons icons" back then. We all felt like we were getting away with something by having them.
Thank you so much for telling her story. It's beautiful and heartbreaking and an important reminder to remember and appreciate the real people behind the cool stuff circulating out there.
Reddit has now sufficiently broken their own site that moderators of the blind community's subreddit who are themselves blind can no longer access the moderator tools.
This statement by the mod team is worth a read to understand the full extent of the failure.
Highlights (for me) from the full mod announcement:
“Reddit made a business decision to effectively remove users' access to third-party apps and must assure that access by its own means.”
“If Reddit Inc wants to deny service to disabled people, they must make that statement.”
“Disabled redditors will not accept being quietly whisked away, nor will the broader Reddit community. People make Reddit and people can break Reddit.”
@austinsart@Curator Pardon my jumping in, but another good use for hashtags is so that people who don't want to read stuff about a topic can preemptively block the tag by setting it up in their filters.
I'm all for using your social media to express and discuss what you want to (within all relevant rules for your instance, of course,) and letting those on the receiving end modulate what they read however they want. Hashtagging not only helps you find the conversation and the conversation find you, it also helps those who don't want to see such things to block those toots. If people following you don't wish to see XYZ topic, it's their prerogative to filter out posts hashtagged as such and your tags help that functionality work for them.
@austinsart@Curator Pardon my jumping in, but another good use for hashtags is so that people who don't want to read stuff about a topic can preemptively block the tag by setting it up in their filters.
I'm all for using your social media to express and discuss what you want to (within all relevant rules for your instance, of course,) and letting those on the receiving end modulate what they read however they want. Hashtagging not only helps you find the conversation and the conversation find you,...
The anime's plot: The devastated remainder of humanity fights against evil alien monsters in massive explosion-filled laser-blasting robot battles.
The anime's theme song: "Today I saw a pretty rainbow / I was lifted on lovely feathered wings of love / I want to dance in the flowers with you forever..."
One of the greatest amusements of using your own email hosted on a system you control is when malware spam tries its darnedest to look like a warning originating from within your own stinkin' domain.
A "podcast" that only one app can receive is not a podcast.
A "podcast" without a public feed that can be freely pulled into any podcast client or RSS reader is not a damn podcast, don't let people get away with calling it that.