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Mayana

In theory, I love getting news and updates through my RSS reader.
In practice, I forget to open it for a couple days, then when I do there's half a thousand new things to read, so I just check the fun ones, mark the news as read, then leave for a few days again so the process starts anew.
It's sort of like my following list on here. I need to throw some things out, even though they are great things, because the greatness doesn't matter if there is so much of it that I end up not engaging with any of it.
And yet I keep making toots like this every couple months and nothing changes. Ah.

In theory, I love getting news and updates through my RSS reader.
In practice, I forget to open it for a couple days, then when I do there's half a thousand new things to read, so I just check the fun ones, mark the news as read, then leave for a few days again so the process starts anew.
It's sort of like my following list on here. I need to throw some things out, even though they are great things, because the greatness doesn't matter if there is so much of it that I end up not engaging with any of it.

Darius Kazemi

@Mayana This why I made my RSS-to-ActivityPub converter that lets you create fedi-compatible accounts for RSS feeds. I follow my feeds on fedi instead of in a separate app. It's primarily what I use the Hometown "exclusive lists" feature for, so I don't see them in my home feed and instead check a list.

Unfortunately my public instance of it got abused, so I now run one just for friend camp users. I could maybe extend its use to dragonscave folks if you're interested?

Mayana

Since some folks are on instances that unfortunately suspend Fosstodon, and so won't see my last boost, I'm going to repost this myself as well. For those that can, please boost the original toot instead:
fosstodon.org/@be/106064220469
Be has just added an issue on Github suggesting that the captioning functionality on Mastodon should become more visible, to encourage more people to use it. Be also suggested making them opt-out, meaning people would get warned when posting uncaptioned images, but given the large amount of people on here who are honestly not capable of describing, I'd only support such a feature if the warnings were easy to turn off in the preferences. I definitely don't want anyone to feel guilty for being disabled ... :ms_worried:
Here is the issue; please thumb up and comment!
github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/

Since some folks are on instances that unfortunately suspend Fosstodon, and so won't see my last boost, I'm going to repost this myself as well. For those that can, please boost the original toot instead:
fosstodon.org/@be/106064220469
Be has just added an issue on Github suggesting that the captioning functionality on Mastodon should become more visible, to encourage more people to use it. Be also suggested making them opt-out, meaning people would get warned when posting uncaptioned...

Mayana

@darius Since Gargron has previously expressed unwillingness to add such a feature (see this issue:
github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/
), how hard do you think it would be to add something like this to Hometown? You have mentioned wanting to add more accessibility features in the past, and this is definitely a wanted one. I'm not sure how hard it wold be to code, but the basic code for confirmation dialogs is already there at least. And you could use this PR:
github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/
No pressure, of course. I know there are more important things you need to take care of.

@darius Since Gargron has previously expressed unwillingness to add such a feature (see this issue:
github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/
), how hard do you think it would be to add something like this to Hometown? You have mentioned wanting to add more accessibility features in the past, and this is definitely a wanted one. I'm not sure how hard it wold be to code, but the basic code for confirmation dialogs is already there at least. And you could use this PR:

Mayana

Hey Fedifriends!
Could you do me a favor? Or rather, my friend @talon . He's been trying to become more active here on the Fedi, but just can't bring himself to press that TOOT! button. People are scary, you know?
Could you help me prove him ri ... wrong? Show him how awesome and friendly this community is. Here's what you should do:
Send over the best #DadJokes or #Puns that come to mind. The cheesier, the better; Talon loves those! And he will be sure to respond with a personalized comment (with a rating, perhaps?) to each of them!
3, 2, 1, go!

Hey Fedifriends!
Could you do me a favor? Or rather, my friend @talon . He's been trying to become more active here on the Fedi, but just can't bring himself to press that TOOT! button. People are scary, you know?
Could you help me prove him ri ... wrong? Show him how awesome and friendly this community is. Here's what you should do:
Send over the best #DadJokes or #Puns that come to mind. The cheesier, the better; Talon loves those! And he will be sure to respond with a personalized comment (with a...

Darius Kazemi

@Mayana @talon "Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana." -Groucho Marx

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