always use #alttext

you don't have to write a novel. just describe your #video or #picture succinctly

for pictures of #text, there's easy quick online tools to turn it into text

it's not just a matter of making mastodon a friendlier place for #disability: sometimes people aren't in a place they can listen, or they have a bad connection, or the media decayed

and some people don't boost posts without alt text, so you lose engagement

alt text

always

always use #alttext

you don't have to write a novel. just describe your #video or #picture succinctly

for pictures of #text, there's easy quick online tools to turn it into text

it's not just a matter of making mastodon a friendlier place for #disability: sometimes people aren't in a place they can listen, or they have a bad connection, or the media decayed

and some people don't boost posts without alt text, so you lose engagement

alt text

always

Thanks for the input, everyone! Looks like the consensus is: yes, favourite your replies

I have a habit of overthinking things like this so I will try to be more spontaneous with faves and boosts. After all, they’re free and not carved in giant stone tablets for all eternity 😅

(I used to think Twitter was ephemeral until I noticed that all my tweets had been saved on the Internet Archive.)

#fediverse #etiquette

Do people on Mastodon generally favourite the replies to their posts as a form of acknowledgement? Like, “favourite” acts like a thumbs up?

I’ve noticed that people do favourite my replies so maybe I should do the same.

#fediverse #etiquette