The Death of Infosec Twitter
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As far as input goes, braille keyboards are more affordable, but many users can touch-type (and have their screen reader read back). Dictation is also a mature option at this point.
Blind people need 3rd-party apps because these apps can be more compatible with screen readers, or can be themed in an easier way allowing for blind-friendly presets. In general, official apps tend to be heavily obfuscated to prevent automated scraping and puppeting. Since blind users often need to basically puppet their devices by not using common interfaces, this puts them at odds with corporations who do not care about them and would ban them if allowed. The alternative is of course not to use big tech products but just because you have a disability shouldn't mean you are abandoning at least half the current web.
Unlike Twitter, FB etc. you don't just "move to Mastodon"... you move to some ActivityPub server. Which one? They don't want you to know I guess?
Edit: thanks for the pointers!
This sounds overly dramatic and conspiratorial.
People are allowed to be private and not want others to follow them by not saying exactly where they moved. I am allowed to voice my frustration about that.
Segregating communities is the trend now (post web 2.0 social platforms), I don't think that is over dramatizing things.
The only explanation for something that people are, in your own words, "casually dropping"? Your comment practically contradicts itself.
Eh? There are _some_ Mastodon instances which are to some a community distinct from Mastodon writ large, but that's not most of them. I moved from Twitter initially to mastodon.online (one of the giant ones, not really a community at all), then to mastodon.ie (the generic Ireland one; marginally a community, but only very marginally), and reserve the right to move further if appropriate. But I don't see why anyone would care about the distinction between them, really.
Generally, I would assume it's less not wanting people to know, and more that it's irrelevant detail. I think this is maybe a common point of confusion over Mastodon; for most people, for most purposes, the instance _simply does not matter_. There are some generally very small instances which are highly focused on specific communities (and may even require that user content revolves largely around those communities) but those are rare; I'd expect under 1% of the user ship. For most people Mastodon is the community, not their instance.
If someone says "I used to do business mostly by post and fax, but now do it mostly by email" you wouldn't go "ah, but are you using gmail or hotmail? It must be a conspiracy because you don't want to tell us!" They don't name the email provider because it is _irrelevant_.
It makes a difference, and insisting on calling them ActivityPub or Fediverse servers has strong GNU/Linux vibes, which we should probably avoid too.
I follow several Lemmy users on Mastodon.
... and thanks for all the phish!
1. Both high quality and high quantity posts instantly available
2. Reasonable API access, maybe not directly but they want their niche workflows to be supported
3. Clear and consistent moderation. Eliminate disruptive content while giving reasonable people a clear understanding of whether something will be removed before they post it.
Threads has made vague promises to these three but not yet delivered.
Threads was not an option then, and isn't of much interest to these communities (as a platform to socialise upon) now.
Mods and groupthink are always a threat but it turned out they were a bigger threat still when everyone was trying to be on one social network to rule them all.
- it’s open, in more ways than just the obvious. while twitter is narrowing in just about every direction you can think of.
- significantly higher signal that isn’t lost amongst a bunch of noise.
- relates to above, but kinda different: waay better quality of discourse. just much more pleasant.
- much more responsive and predictable admin. so so so many props to jerry.
definitely not a bad thing, it’s absolutely a step up and out.