invertigo hayfever

@the-doomed-posts-of-muteKi

I'm the hedgehog masque replica guy

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masto

mastodon.social/@even_more_damned_muteKi/

twitter, if you must

twitter.com/the_damn_muteKi

invertigo hayfever @the-doomed-posts-of-muteKi3/6/2024, 6:28 AM

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蒸しルビー @YuushaRuby3/6/2024, 6:17 AM

It kind of makes me feel sad when I see people being smug or not giving a shit about their website not being accessible via a mobile device. A metric fuckton of people do not have a laptop let alone a desktop PC. You know what a metric fuckton of those people do have though? A smartphone!

But obviously the most heinous examples are websites that want to force you to download their "app" onto your smartphone instead of using their website which would be perfectly good on mobile if it weren't for them locking down the mobile site to be unusable on a handheld on purpose.

I think my favorite example is bandcamp lying and saying direct downloads are not possible on safari for iOS.

Follow these steps

request desktop site ➡ download files ➡ play via a media player such as vlc

wow amazing

#accessibility

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Rika Klassen @rikaklassen3/6/2024, 1:54 PM

Yeah, been disappointed in how both Bluesky devs and Mastodon devs forgot the origin of Twitter and its importance in Arab Spring, Ferguson etc not to mention crucial to journalists who are working under repressive regimes. And none of the so-called "Twitter replacements" is addressing the technological gap of not having access to 3G, 4G or 5G networks, nor smartphones. Like, no! Your app is not a Twitter alternative nor a Twitter replacement until you remember the essence of TXTMob!

(To be fair to Eugen Rochko, he didn't intend Mastodon to be a Twitter replacement until greed got to his head when Twitter started falling apart.)

I was on Posterous instead of Tumblr or other microblogging websites because I liked being able to send emails to my blogs from a library or computer cafe instead of surfing the Internet. Didn't have a computer of my own until someone gave me a ThinkPad with Ubuntu on it.

Quoting from the article linked above:

Writing blog posts via e-mail is definitely not a new thing. Google's Blogger product has had this for quite some time now, and will support both links and images that get pushed straight to a live post. Hosted WordPress blogs and Tumblr itself also support this feature. However, none of these products support comment forwarding, which lets you keep track of community discussion while you're away from your computer. In Posterous' case you'll get a new e-mail for every new comment with the option to reply. If you do (through your e-mail client of course) that reply will be pushed live as a threaded comment. Not too shabby.

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