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Written by Modrinth :ferris: on 2025-01-30 at 21:01

As you've probably noticed, for now we've discontinued our posting here on our Mastodon profile due to it being a fairly significant burden for how few people it reaches.

It's possible we may return if we can more easily mirror posts from another site. There is allegedly a bridge available at @modrinth.com@bsky.brid.gy, but BridgyFed seems to have issues.

For now, our main presence and where we'll engage is over on Bluesky @modrinth.com

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Written by Three Cats in a Trenchcoat :nc_t: :nc_m: on 2025-01-30 at 21:03

@modrinth@floss.social @modrinth.com@bsky.brid.gy what burden is there extra to posting on fedi? It seems like it's the same amount of effort as posting to bsky, considering you're not running your own instance

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Written by Modrinth :ferris: on 2025-01-30 at 21:06

@Chloe primarily, we post a lot of images with our weekly featured projects posts and our Mastodon instance floss.social requires alt text on all images. We post with alt text on Bluesky, but doing that for every single platform is too much of a hassle, and we've been given multiple strikes for not providing sufficient alt text here.

We could certainly switch to another instance or run our own ideally, but all that just adds to the burden for such a little benefit from what we've experienced

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Written by Three Cats in a Trenchcoat :nc_t: :nc_m: on 2025-01-30 at 21:07

@modrinth@floss.social can you not just copy and paste the alt text you use on bluesky?

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Toot

Written by Modrinth :ferris: on 2025-01-30 at 21:10

@Chloe We did this for a bit, but it was a fairly tedious manual process with a lot of back and forth and was prone to errors (multiple times I posted and then realized a mistake like the wrong alt text on an image), and just did not seem like a good use of time

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Descendants

Written by Three Cats in a Trenchcoat :nc_t: :nc_m: on 2025-01-30 at 21:21

@modrinth@floss.social well, it is unfortunate that you don't feel it's worth the effort to keep posting on fedi, and thanks for taking the time to reply. And I am glad you are at least bridged with bridgy, although it is important to note that many instances have bridgy blocked and ss such those users won't be able to see your posts anymore.

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Written by Modrinth :ferris: on 2025-01-30 at 21:23

@Chloe yeah, it is unfortunate. that kinda highlights a major issue with the fediverse, it's not actually really a connected social internet

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Written by stella on 2025-01-30 at 21:31

@modrinth @Chloe the issue isnt with the fediverse, the issue is the fact that it has become socially acceptable to forego accessibility because "its too hard to copy an alt text over". do better

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Written by 🏳️‍🌈🎃🇧🇷Luana🇧🇷🎃🏳️‍🌈 on 2025-01-30 at 22:00

@Chloe @modrinth @stella This

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Written by Alien_Sunset on 2025-01-31 at 01:08

@stella @modrinth @Chloe

What gets me at that there are multiple apps and programs that allow you to post to both platforms at once, alt text and all.

With a tiny bit of searching they could have been saving themselves a ton of effort, but instead decided to just abandon an entire chunk of their userbase

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Written by Amber (deilannist) on 2025-01-31 at 01:09

@Alien_Sunset@dice.camp @stella@wetdry.world @modrinth@floss.social @Chloe@catwithaclari.net all because they think of accommodating for the disabled as an inconvenience.

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Written by Modrinth :ferris: on 2025-02-01 at 00:50

@Alien_Sunset @stella @Chloe If you have any recommendations, I would really appreciate it. I've tried about 20 of them and have not found one that supports posting 4 images each with their own alt text. Most seem to be designed around just a single image at most, including a number of super business-oriented apps, or don't care about alt text at all. Buffer, for example, lets you do alt text, but annoyingly you have to do it on each individual channel, which defeats the whole point of using it

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Written by Alien_Sunset on 2025-02-01 at 01:03

@modrinth @stella @Chloe

I mostly use my phone, and use openvibe, I’m pretty sure it lets you do four photos at a time, but honestly I don’t usually need to do that many.

Skymoth is a service that will do the cross posting for you, so all you have to do is post to one site, and it copies over alt text perfectly, i use it for one of my bots - it posts to Masto and skymoth mirrors it to bluesy, but I still have complete control over both accounts

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Written by Alien_Sunset on 2025-01-31 at 01:27

@modrinth @Chloe

Wow, way to completely and utterly miss the point

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