Dr Mohammed Tahir, chief of surgery at the humanitarian organisation FAJR Scientific, is one of several medical professionals who have described treating Palestinians in Gaza wounded by Israeli drones that dropped bombs filled with tiny metal cubes, which leave minimal entry wounds but cause huge internal injuries.
A grainy, dark image shows a line of riot police in dark uniforms and helmets facing the viewer. They stand behind a large, dark vehicle with a satellite dish on top. The background is blurry, showing dark trees and streetlights, suggesting a nighttime urban setting. At the bottom of the image, text reads: "It speaks to the very nature of our domestication that we only choose resistance so long as it feels like something we can win."
A photograph shows the backs of a group of people, many with their arms around each other, holding up numerous Israeli flags. The flags are predominantly blue and white with the Star of David. The individuals are standing under a metal structure, and other people are visible in the background. The image is accompanied by a headline that reads, "'Everything is legitimate': Israeli leaders defend soldiers accused of rape," and a subheading describing a societal division over the arrest of ten soldiers accused of gang rape.
Bien sûr, voici une description de texte alternatif pour l'image :
L'image montre une parodie du logo Google. Les lettres sont modifiées pour inclure des symboles de violence tels qu'une arme à feu, une cible, un crâne et une tache de sang. En dessous, une barre de recherche Google affiche la question : « Les enfants auxquels on a amputé les jambes leur refont-elles pousser ? » Une légende en dessous explique que cette question a été posée par un enfant de Gaza pendant le génocide israélien, et que Google a joué un rôle dans ce génocide en fournissant à l'armée israélienne une technologie utilisée pour opprimer et tuer les Palestiniens.
A dark-blue Twitter post by the account "Little Anarchist Brat" ([@]theorythot.bsky.social), which features a circular profile picture of a cartoon rooster with a banner reading "I AM UP TO SOME NONSENSE". The post's text says, "Direct action addresses immediate material conditions. Marches and rallies just make people feel good without any actual action and generally with zero follow through to recruit into direct action spaces."
An overhead shot shows a person spray-painting the words "No Future" in large white letters across a dark gray asphalt surface. To the left, text reads: "spray our dreams on any surface where the paint will stick". A striped, triangular traffic marker is visible near the text. Debris is scattered around the spray-painted words.
A meme featuring text and a scene from a movie. The top text reads, "liberals: we should really consider harm reduction in our decision to vote or not anarchists: so we should reduce our stake in electoral politics in order to end the harm its predominance has facilitated? liberals:" The bottom portion shows a scene of two men in suits ascending a staircase. One man is wearing a light-colored suit and a white hat, the other a darker suit and a hat. At the bottom of the image, it says, "That's not what I said."
"Author: Italian Anarchist Federation - Title: Let's Abolish the Armies! Let's Stop Wars! Let's Unmask Nationalisms - Date: January 15th, 2025 - Notes: Original Italian statement from the 32nd FAI congress in Carrara, Italy, January 3-6, 2025. Translated here into English by the Kurdish Anarchist Forum. https://federazioneanarchica.org/archivio/archivio_2025/2…"
Italian Anarchist Federation Let's Abolish the Armies! Let's Stop Wars! Let's Unmask Nationalisms January 15th, 2025 Original Italian statement from the...
A screenshot of a tweet shows a news article about Luigi Mangione. The tweet says Mangione is "still doing the lord's work, behind bars, touching hearts, and changing lives." The accompanying image shows Mangione, wearing an orange prison jumpsuit, being escorted by a New York Police Department (NYPD) officer. The Newsweek article headline below the image states: "Luigi Mangione changed prison guards' behavior, inmate says".
A Twitter post from Quiver Quantitative ([@]QuiverQuant) shows a picture of Nancy Pelosi and a stock chart. The text states that Nancy Pelosi sold $1.3 million of Nvidia stock last month, and that $NVDA (Nvidia) stock has fallen 17% today. The embedded chart shows the price of NVDA stock from December 8, 2024 to January 26, 2025, with a significant drop after December 31, 2024. The post also displays the number of views (2.9 million), reposts (3.7K), quotes (1.2K), likes (32K), and bookmarks (2.6K).
A yellow poster shows a stylized profile of two faces, one dark brown and one light yellow-brown, forming a single head. The dark brown face is on the right side, the light yellow-brown on the left. The text at the top says, “American policies remain the same, only their faces change,” and is attributed to an Iranian poster from 2018, showing Presidents Trump and Obama as one. At the bottom is text in Farsi.
Conservatives love using transphobia as a wedge issue specifically because so many cis liberals merely pay lip service to equality and they feel truly entitled to that one, if only as a stand-in for all the other bigotries they wish to reclaim.
The problem with a lot of cis-het white people is they've spent their whole lives thinking they're "normal" and the rest of aren't. Superior, even, and naturally so. And they don't understand why they aren't allowed to just say that. They think every other white person is thinking the same thing. So why should they be ashamed of it? And they become enraged when they experience any pushback whatsoever. And they flock to media environments that encourage them.
It takes a breathtaking sense of entitlement that, I think, masks an underlying insecurity, as the worst of these people have never had to work for anything in their lives. Basically, every Young Republican and no few "liberal" nepo kids.
I think this rallying cry also serves as an affirmation for many fashies, especially the men. Remember the howls of indignity when Tim Walz said right-wing men are "weird?" His insult cut them to the bone. It instantly transported those guys back to a turning point in their adolescence, when they were first called weirdos by girls who wanted nothing to do with these budding creeper types. That moment scarred them.
"I'm not weird! I'm normal! Normal, do you hear me?!" Yeah, right.
@Efilroftsul Yeah. Which is why being "normal" is a badge of self-identification primarily for cis-het white men. Cis-het white women have often enabled white supremacist patriarchy but they are never considered full citizens, as it were, so much as these men's sexual property, in part because of a lifetime of perceived slights and failures.
Our existence, disabled and other non-normals, is perhaps a threat to their ideas of how they must run their lives. We exist differently, contrary to their own choices of what they think is right and good.
How dare we contradict them. Our existence being different than theirs, is a direct challenge to their own path in life.
Their path in life is threatened by us being ourselves. They loathe being contradicted, it's like we are a living argument.
In fairness, neither Biden nor the democrats did much to advance trans or gay rights - but everyone thought they did. And that association was enough for cis straight liberals to run away.
I have been feeling the same way about immigration... "Our sanctuary cities will fight back!" Have you seen what those sanctuary cities have done to homeless people?
The callousness beneath a lot of lefty lip service is about to be laid bare in horrifying clarity.
Scapegoating is a common diversionary tactic of fascists and dictators. Get people focused on something else so they don't focus on said fascists or dictators. Kind of like pointing out a squirrel to a golden retriever. Sucks being the scapegoat tho.
I do not understand why they are so focused on trans people. For fuck sake, even IF there was something wrong with y'all... you're what, 1.6% of the population?! Why the fuck are trans people such a priority? I've met quite a few. You're pretty much the same as everyone else except that one trait. There's some who are assholes, a few who are racsit, and the vast majority who are decent people, and some who are AMAZING people.
@hellomiakoda Because transphobia has been normalized and socially accepted for so long, and because (albeit limited) progress has been made elsewhere, it feels like the last domino to them.
I tried to post this to the Friendica support forum, but it kept timing out when I entered my information. I am now attempting to subscribe to their e-mail list. However, I thought I would write this here so that those who know coding, etc. might be able to offer a solution, or at least, to pass this on to the developers.
I joined Friendica in October of 2024, when Facebook decided to shut down their Basic Mobile site (not app). I am totally blind, and their main page is a nightmare to use with a screen readre (NVDA in my case). I chose Friendica because of the huge character limit, the ability to edit and delete posts, local posting, extensive profiles with keywords, and the ability to connect with all sorts of accounts in the Fediverse. For the most part, I am enjoying my time here. However, I am noticing a lot of inaccessibility on the Friendica page. I am not a programmer, but I'm guessing this is at the core of the software and is not due to the instance I'm using (friendica.world). I am also guessing that the page is not written in HTML5 and does not follow WCAG guidel
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I tried to post this to the Friendica support forum, but it kept timing out when I entered my information. I am now attempting to subscribe to their e-mail list. However, I thought I would write this here so that those who know coding, etc. might be able to offer a solution, or at least, to pass this on to the developers.
I joined Friendica in October of 2024, when Facebook decided to shut down their Basic Mobile site (not app). I am totally blind, and their main page is a nightmare to use with a screen readre (NVDA in my case). I chose Friendica because of the huge character limit, the ability to edit and delete posts, local posting, extensive profiles with keywords, and the ability to connect with all sorts of accounts in the Fediverse. For the most part, I am enjoying my time here. However, I am noticing a lot of inaccessibility on the Friendica page. I am not a programmer, but I'm guessing this is at the core of the software and is not due to the instance I'm using (friendica.world). I am also guessing that the page is not written in HTML5 and does not follow WCAG guidelines, though I may be wrong about that. If not, I strongly urge the developers to review them and implement them if possible. If so, perhaps, some changes can still be made that would make this a more screen reader-friendly site. Note that I tried this with Firefox and Supermium (a direct fork of Chrome).
Mostly, I use TweeseCake to access the site, but there are some things I can't do with that client. All of the following refer to the site itself.
There is a list of links at the top of the page that acts like a menu. This causes many problems while trying to perform basic tasks, particularly editing posts and handling notifications. I can't always activate said links/menu either.
1A. I can't stress how frustrating editing posts is. It sometimes takes over ten minutes. The "edit" option is a link/menu, and it can only be found via another menu. Once I finally find and activate it, I hear the sound indicating that I have entered focus Mode. Usually, this means that I am in an edit box and can type. However, in this case, I am taken back to the main page, as if I never entered the option to edit my post. Using e to try to find an edit box doesn't help, as it just sends me to the replies to different comments. So I am forced to find the post, and start all over again. The only way I can do this successfully is to try to tab through the links/menu at the top of the page (when it works), then through other posts, until, finally, I am placed in an edit box where I can type.
1B. When I go to the Notifications" link, I have to tab to "Mark all System Notifications as Seen". This isn't even a regular link, as I can't copy and paste the text from it. Once I tab to and out of that, I can then read my notifications. But here is what I have to do if I want to see follow requests. 1. Try to get the notifications link to work, then click on it. 2. Tab to marking notifications. 3. Perform a search for the word follow. 4. Click on the link of the notification that someone wants to follow me. I open this in a new window, to try to keep the original one available. 5. Make my choice as to whether to approve that notification, then close that window. 6. Return to the main window. Only now, I am not where I left off. Instead, I am placed back at the beginning of the page and the Notifications menu is not open. 7. Repeat steps 1 through 3. Ideally, I should be able to go to a normal notifications link, perform steps 3 through 5, then return back to the link, and perform steps 3 through 5 again, as many times as necessary, without having to repeat 1 through 3.
I can't just go to the site and enter an edit box to post. I must go through a menu to find the link to do so. Yet there is an edit box for searching for content, tags, etc.
Some pinned posts don't always read properly. I can see my name, when I posted, that it's pinned, a public message, tags (if applicable), buttons for resharing, etc., and the number of comments. But I cannot simply read the post itself. ""Comments" is also a button, not a link. Even when I expand them, I still can't see my post, and finding the button again to close them takes a lot of time, as posts also have their own buttons. Note that unpinned posts are read properly.
While the process of editing my profile is completely accessible, finding the edit option might be slightly confusing for new users, as it requires entering yet another link/menu, this time with the user name as the title..
If I go to a profile of someone not on Friendica (usually Mastodon) and wish to reply to a post, after I enter my credentials, it takes me back to my profile, not to the relevant post. It only worked once.
The Friendica app for Windows is basically the site itself. I don't understand this at all.
If you want to see a truly accessible site, try this link. I don't work for them, though I do have an account there.
Please, if any changes can be made, I urge you to do so. The site is otherwise a pleasure to use, but my frustration at not being able to easily perform such basic tasks is increasing.
@Georgiana Brummell First of all, I've just noticed that you seem to not have joined the Friendica support forum yet. As far as I know, you can't post to a Friendica group/forum without fully connecting to it first.
As for the accessibility issues: To most people, it appears like Friendica has only just been made since they haven't heard of it before mid-January. But actually, Friendica is from 2010. And its frontend is largely stuck in the early 2010s, including technologically.
Friendica has always been a spare-time hobbyist project. It was mostly developed by one single man for almost two years. That guy is a protocol designer and not a frontend developer. Also, I think Friendica never had more than two regular developers, and it definitely never had any developer who really knows how to make a modern and appealing user interface. I mean, you've obviously never seen Friendica's user interface, but let me tell you that it's quite old-fashioned. It'
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@Georgiana Brummell First of all, I've just noticed that you seem to not have joined the Friendica support forum yet. As far as I know, you can't post to a Friendica group/forum without fully connecting to it first.
As for the accessibility issues: To most people, it appears like Friendica has only just been made since they haven't heard of it before mid-January. But actually, Friendica is from 2010. And its frontend is largely stuck in the early 2010s, including technologically.
Friendica has always been a spare-time hobbyist project. It was mostly developed by one single man for almost two years. That guy is a protocol designer and not a frontend developer. Also, I think Friendica never had more than two regular developers, and it definitely never had any developer who really knows how to make a modern and appealing user interface. I mean, you've obviously never seen Friendica's user interface, but let me tell you that it's quite old-fashioned. It's just meant to do its job.
Hobbyist, spare-time developers of such an extremely niche piece of software who are not trained in Web UI design normally don't know a thing about accessibility. And truly, they don't care. If the UI covers all features, and the users don't have to SSH or telnet onto the Web server to use it, it's often good enough.
Friendica's regularly active user community has never been more than maybe a few thousand at a time, maybe even only a few hundred, as opposed to the over two million at which Mastodon has topped out. Thus, Friendica has never encountered blind or visually-impaired users yet.
You can see it all over the place. Alt-text is not part of Friendica's culture. Some Friendica veterans staunchly refuse to describe their media because they think alt-text is another Mastodon fad that Mastodon fundamentalists want to force upon the whole rest of the Fediverse with Mastodon's entire culture. Alt-text, to them, is like limiting your posts to 500 characters.
All this is why nobody has noticed yet that Friendica is not accessible at all.
I've got a suspicion that Friendica can only be made fully accessible by throwing the entire Web frontend away, developing an entirely new one from scratch and then also making all-new themes for it.
Also, it's only natural that TweeseCake doesn't support many of Friendica's features. As it looks to me, TweeseCake's Fediverse side is built against Mastodon and only Mastodon. If Mastodon doesn't have a feature, TweeseCake doesn't cover it either. Thus, TweeseCake probably only covers about 20% of Friendica's features because Mastodon doesn't have the other 80%.
@Jupiter Rowland Again, thank you for the wonderful explanation. I am not doubting you at all, by the way, just explaining something. Dreamwidth looks very much like LiveJournal, which has been around for longer than twenty years. I've been using computers for over two decades, and I've definitely seen many good older sites, including from the 2010's. As a matter of fact, many older sites are far better than modern ones, because they are mostly text, don't have hamburger menus, strange buttons, etc. The old Basic HTML version of GMail and even Facebooks Basic Mobile site are two more excellent examples of good sites, though sadly, both of them are gone now. To me, Friendica actually feels a lot more modern, and in a bad way.
Thank you for explaining a bit about Friendica culture and membership. I joined for the reasons I said, so I wasn't really thinking about that. Most of my friends in the Fediverse are on Mastodon, though a few do come from other p
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@Jupiter Rowland Again, thank you for the wonderful explanation. I am not doubting you at all, by the way, just explaining something. Dreamwidth looks very much like LiveJournal, which has been around for longer than twenty years. I've been using computers for over two decades, and I've definitely seen many good older sites, including from the 2010's. As a matter of fact, many older sites are far better than modern ones, because they are mostly text, don't have hamburger menus, strange buttons, etc. The old Basic HTML version of GMail and even Facebooks Basic Mobile site are two more excellent examples of good sites, though sadly, both of them are gone now. To me, Friendica actually feels a lot more modern, and in a bad way.
Thank you for explaining a bit about Friendica culture and membership. I joined for the reasons I said, so I wasn't really thinking about that. Most of my friends in the Fediverse are on Mastodon, though a few do come from other places. I initially avoided Mastodon because of the 500 character limit, no local posting, and the inability to edit/delete posts. I later learned that some instances have very long posting limits, and that posts can be edited and deleted. I was considering Hometown or possibly Glitchsoc. I forgot why I chose Friendica over those. Now, I heard that many instances on Mastodon are very strict with what they allow. I don't post obscenities, graphic images, anything illegal, etc. but I also don't want to be thrown out simply for expressing an opinion that is different from those of the moderators. I'm perfectly fine with acting a certain way within groups, but on my own timeline, I want the ability to post as I choose without my work being deleted or being banned. I heard that Pleroma is good in that regard. If I did switch, though, I would need to choose an accessible platform and, I hope, to be able to take this account with me.
As for TweeseCake, it workss with almost everything. I can see and reply to posts, create, edit, and delete my own (it respect the long ones and allows me to use carriage return instead of posting when I press that), follow and unfollow people, block and unblock them, etc. But I can't edit my profile, pin posts, follow tags, go to a list of blocked users so that I can ublock them, filter out certain words and/or phrases so that I don't see them in my timeline (I'm not even sure if I can do that on Friendica), etc. I can sort read timelines such as Home, Notifications, Mentions, and Federated, and add specific conversations, favourites (that one doesn't work well here though it does on TwBlue), etc. But I can't create, edit, or delete circles.
@Jupiter Rowland To answer your other point, I did try to join the forum. However, when I entered my friendica.world information, it timed out. I tried my actual e-mail and that didn't work. Do I need to actually join the forum site separately? Also, I had no idea that there were so few developers of Friendica. I knew my instance only had one, but I thought there were more working on the main site. It's a shame, as this is really a great place.
@Robert Kingett @Jupiter Rowland It really is sad. I can do most things with TweeseCake, but when it comes to those few, i go crazy! I love the features, but in some cases, the accessibility just isn't there. It would be perfect otherwise.
@Robert Kingett Hubzilla started out as a Friendica fork by Friendica's own creator. He maintained it for twice as long as Friendica, until 2016. Since then, there are only two developers for much, much more code than Friendica has, and they're spare-time hobbyists, too, who only work on Hubzilla when they happen to find some time.
Thus, due to Hubzilla's massive backend, UI maintenance has largely fallen to the wayside. Hubzilla used to have a whole bunch of themes, but only one survived to this day because the two devs had to keep one theme alive. Its name "Redbasic" comes from Hubzilla's original name, Red. Apart from getting more settings with Hubzilla 9, it didn't change that much over time. Hubzilla kind of still looks like Friendica more than a dozen years ago.
It's mostly the backend that keeps the devs busy, too busy to take care of anything else. Example: The built-in help is half-useless because it's totally outdated and therefore partially incomp
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@Robert Kingett Hubzilla started out as a Friendica fork by Friendica's own creator. He maintained it for twice as long as Friendica, until 2016. Since then, there are only two developers for much, much more code than Friendica has, and they're spare-time hobbyists, too, who only work on Hubzilla when they happen to find some time.
Thus, due to Hubzilla's massive backend, UI maintenance has largely fallen to the wayside. Hubzilla used to have a whole bunch of themes, but only one survived to this day because the two devs had to keep one theme alive. Its name "Redbasic" comes from Hubzilla's original name, Red. Apart from getting more settings with Hubzilla 9, it didn't change that much over time. Hubzilla kind of still looks like Friendica more than a dozen years ago.
It's mostly the backend that keeps the devs busy, too busy to take care of anything else. Example: The built-in help is half-useless because it's totally outdated and therefore partially incomplete and partially plain wrong. Features that have been available for several years aren't covered, but things that have been removed in the last decade are. Parts of it actually still refer to a "Red Matrix" which ceased to exist in 2015 when the Red Matrix became Hubzilla. The German and English help is currently being re-written by a user.
Alt-text has to be manually grafted into the BBcode that embeds an image in a post. There is no official documentation on that yet, and I'll have to check if the rewrite covers it. How it's done is only known because, I think, one of the devs looked it up in the code, then told us, and it's being passed on from user to user every once in a while.
In fact, I've once been told by a blind or visually-impaired user that at least Hubzilla's Articles app for non-federating long-form articles did not work in her screen reader at all.
Hubzilla's frontend must largely run on code from 2012 when it was matched with the completely re-written backend. Afterwards, new or changed features were only patched in. Hubzilla's UI is convoluted and confusing even for sighted users.
Also, Hubzilla has never had a run-in with blind users either because it's even more obscure than Friendica, and its community is even smaller than Friendica's.
Lastly, Hubzilla can only be used via the Web interface. There is no other way. It doesn't support Mastodon apps, and it never will.
"Getting back to the cluttered user interface I was talking about. Friendica allows the user to make changes to the user interface. There are a couple of themes to choose from and the themes can be customized in color. Also the layout and the content of the stream can be adjusted. This way I was able to create a style that is easier to digest making Friendica a much better experience than it was for me in the past."
Could this possibly help with my problems? By the way, this is a fairly good article that explains some of the differences between Friendica and Mastodon.
Here is an explanation of another site that I just f
"Getting back to the cluttered user interface I was talking about. Friendica allows the user to make changes to the user interface. There are a couple of themes to choose from and the themes can be customized in color. Also the layout and the content of the stream can be adjusted. This way I was able to create a style that is easier to digest making Friendica a much better experience than it was for me in the past."
Could this possibly help with my problems? By the way, this is a fairly good article that explains some of the differences between Friendica and Mastodon.
Here is an explanation of another site that I just found, called Akkoma. It sounds interesting, but also a bit complicated.
Between Friendica, Mastodon, Pleroma, Akkoma, Hometown, glitchsoc, and the others, I am very confused. I didn't think I would have to be considering this again. It was bad enough when I lost all of my friends on Facebook (only one or two even talk with me outside of it) and had to find a new place to go to, because Facebook decided that accessibility didn't matter. Now, I may have to do it all over again! I really am trying to avoid this headache. At the same time, I need to know what my options are and if anything truly meets my needs.
@Jupiter Rowland @Robert Kingett Perhaps, the real solution is to see if TweeseCake could implement these things. i just tried TWBlue, and they offer the options to view followers, those whom I follow, and blocked users. I cannot do this on TweeseCake. I can also view my favourites/likes without them disappear, as they do on TweeseCake. However, TWBlue doesn't allow me to write long posts with paragraphs, or to edit/delete my posts. This is why I hardly ever use it and comments. Neither one of these allows me to edit my profile, view the profiles of others, or request/reject follow requests, or interact with circles. But I am fairly certain that Pachli for Android does allow profile editing. So the ability is out there. Even if the developers of Friendica can't or won't change things, it can be made fully accessible via these clients. I know Raccoon for Friendica exists, and that is specifically designed to work with it, but it's for Android, and I haven't tried it yet. I am far more focused on Windows soutions.
@Robert Kingett @Jupiter Rowland How is your instance with regard to censorship? Will they moderate me or ban me for posting things they don't like? What about GoToSocial, in general? i don't want to join an instance where all sorts of ridiculous things need content warnings, etc. I know that Hometown allows for local posts, but do some instances of Mastodon also allow this and can they federate as widely as Friendica? While it's true that most of my contacts are on Mastodon, not all are.
@Robert Kingett I'm confused. Were you responding to my post? If so, I have no idea what I wrote to make you so upset. I'm not against the idea of content warnings in general, as some posts do need them. But I've seen warnings on all sorts of things, and most of the time, I had no idea why. I've also heard that some moderators do like to ban people for simple disagreement, so it is a valid concern. I don't know who runs your instance, but it does seem to be by invitation-only. Hence my questions. Anyway, if you weren't responding to me, please disregard this.
@Robert Kingett @Jupiter Rowland Thank you. That's a good thing to know. I never join anywhere without reading the rules. I was just asking for your experiences, etc. Then, of course, I would read them and decide. Many rules make complete sense, such as not posting hate speech, not promoting violence, putting anything sexual behind a warning, not posting anything illegal, etc. My only concern is that, sometimes, rules that seem perfectly reasonable can be abused by those with the power to moderate. That's all. i don't mind strict rules in groups or forums devoted to a specific topic, but on my own timeline, I do like more freedom. As for warnings in general, I've seen them so often that I've turned off the option to show them so that I can just read the post. I'm an adult, and if I really don't like something, I can skip it.
@the esoteric programmer @Jupiter Rowland @Robert Kingett Thank you. But I still can't edit with TWBlue, so I would only use it if absolutely necessary. That said, this is very good to know and does seem reasonable.
no editting? perhaps open an issue against their repository? this shouldn't happen, or if it does, it's an unimplemented feature, and someone has to make an issue asking for it. I would do it myself, have done it in some cases, but this is a usability and not a compatibility thing, for that I would have to use it, and I haven't used windows in ages, I dk if I can spin up a virtual machine or something because my hardware is extremely limited lol. I'm thinking about going into the friendica codebase and seeing what I can do in there, but as someone before me said, the whole frontend of friendica would probably have to be rewritten. I didn't know about the alt text issues, which makes me think that friendica people are going to oppose anything mastodon does, and in light of that they're gonna refuse to add accessibility because blind and VI people are the weak ones, and all the weak shall die or something, isn't that the current fascist regime's song now? anyways, I hope I'm wrong, but I don't have high hopes. My advice here would be to try and connect to that forum afew more times, ev... Show more...
no editting? perhaps open an issue against their repository? this shouldn't happen, or if it does, it's an unimplemented feature, and someone has to make an issue asking for it. I would do it myself, have done it in some cases, but this is a usability and not a compatibility thing, for that I would have to use it, and I haven't used windows in ages, I dk if I can spin up a virtual machine or something because my hardware is extremely limited lol. I'm thinking about going into the friendica codebase and seeing what I can do in there, but as someone before me said, the whole frontend of friendica would probably have to be rewritten. I didn't know about the alt text issues, which makes me think that friendica people are going to oppose anything mastodon does, and in light of that they're gonna refuse to add accessibility because blind and VI people are the weak ones, and all the weak shall die or something, isn't that the current fascist regime's song now? anyways, I hope I'm wrong, but I don't have high hopes. My advice here would be to try and connect to that forum afew more times, even through a vpn if your country blocked the domain for whatever reason, and then post there what you posted here, we have to know their stanse on accessibility and other key issues like those for sure eventually, because it's possible a friendica fork may be imminent in that case.
Just last week I got in touch with an accessibility expert. We had a two-hour session where she registered an account and went through the whole system. She was using an iPad with VoiceOver. There were three main problems:
@Michael Vogel Thank you so much! I can't comment on Voiceover, as I use Windows, but I am assuming that, since you accessed it using the actual site, the problems would be the same.
I don't own any Windows devices, I use Linux. I now have an iPhone (just for testing), an Android device and a Chromebook. So I want to try to make it accessible for those devices. And I hope it will work with other screenreaders too.
After I've made most of the changes, I'd like to get some feedback, just to make sure I'm on the right track. So I may get back to you about this.
I can't say how much time I'll need, though. Working on Friendica is like trying to juggle a dozen things at once while solving a Rubik's Cube and reciting Shakespeare. I try to code new things, to maintain the system, search and fix bugs, provide support and update and maintain three Friendica installations (while also having a daytime job and some other spare time activities).
@Matthias It is true that it is the culture of (many) Friendica users to use alt tags. But it would be good if it became even easier to create them. Unfortunately, it is not yet self-explanatory how it can be created and it is not integrated into the GUI everywhere.
I need to correct some things. I have spent a lot of time trying to make Friendica accessible. Many years ago I got in touch with a blind person who was working in this area. I made a lot of changes, but due to a lack of equipment to check them, I was never able to see if the changes were really good.
Last Thursday I had a two-hour session with an accessibility expert. She found a number of problems and said that, apart from three, the software as a whole was quite good from an accessibility point of view. In particular, she said that post creation was quite good compared to Mastodon.
However, there are some problems, such as the fact that some menu items aren't spoken. We also use the wrong aria roles for a lot of links. And we don't always use buttons and navigation elements where we should.
As for alt text: Of course we support the creation of this. As I have blind contacts, I'm very interested in this. However (as already mentioned) the interface can be improved a lot.
Also regarding the technology: Friendica has undergone some major overhauls of its in
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I need to correct some things. I have spent a lot of time trying to make Friendica accessible. Many years ago I got in touch with a blind person who was working in this area. I made a lot of changes, but due to a lack of equipment to check them, I was never able to see if the changes were really good.
Last Thursday I had a two-hour session with an accessibility expert. She found a number of problems and said that, apart from three, the software as a whole was quite good from an accessibility point of view. In particular, she said that post creation was quite good compared to Mastodon.
However, there are some problems, such as the fact that some menu items aren't spoken. We also use the wrong aria roles for a lot of links. And we don't always use buttons and navigation elements where we should.
As for alt text: Of course we support the creation of this. As I have blind contacts, I'm very interested in this. However (as already mentioned) the interface can be improved a lot.
Also regarding the technology: Friendica has undergone some major overhauls of its internal structure. Just recently there was another refactoring wave that improved the whole class structure. This means that the core - although started 15 years ago - is quite modern (including a bunch of automated tests).
Could this possibly help with my problems? By the way, this is a fairly good article that explains some of the differences between Friendica and Mastodon.
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It depends on where exactly your issues are rooted. If the UI is too cluttered for you, it may help, but I'm afraid that the editor itself may not be accessible. But if the UI elements themselves aren't accessible, it makes no difference if you rearrange them or remove elements that you don't need.
As I've probably already mentioned, Friendica has changed a great lot since the last time I've used it, and my more recent experience is from Hubzilla and (streams). But while they let you rearrange all pages, they don't let you modify the UI elements themselves in detail and add accessibility features.
Also, I don't know if Friendica lets you change the layouts of the pages by editing the raw Comanche code that describes t
Could this possibly help with my problems? By the way, this is a fairly good article that explains some of the differences between Friendica and Mastodon.
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It depends on where exactly your issues are rooted. If the UI is too cluttered for you, it may help, but I'm afraid that the editor itself may not be accessible. But if the UI elements themselves aren't accessible, it makes no difference if you rearrange them or remove elements that you don't need.
As I've probably already mentioned, Friendica has changed a great lot since the last time I've used it, and my more recent experience is from Hubzilla and (streams). But while they let you rearrange all pages, they don't let you modify the UI elements themselves in detail and add accessibility features.
Also, I don't know if Friendica lets you change the layouts of the pages by editing the raw Comanche code that describes them. While this means getting used to Comanche, I can imagine this actually being more accessible than a purely WYSIWYG drag-and-drop editor.
In this regard, it's interesting that (streams) doesn't offer drag-and-drop anymore. Either that, or Hubzilla introduced it after Osada and Zap were forked off.
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Here is an explanation of another site that I just found, called Akkoma. It sounds interesting, but also a bit complicated.
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Akkoma is a fork of Pleroma with a default UI that, I guess, isn't dramatically different plus compatibility with the same third-party UIs. One downside in comparison with Friendica, Hubzilla etc. is that you, as a user, can't choose a UI for your account individually because the UI is pre-defined for the whole instance. Also, both Pleroma and Akkoma are microblogging projects and closer to Twitter than to Facebook.
@Georgiana Brummell @Robert Kingett You could try and ask the developers of both TweeseCake and TWBlue to implement full support for Friendica, not via the Mastodon client API, but by also implementing Friendica's own client API.
I wouldn't hold my breath for it, though. They may not even have heard of Friendica yet. And if you tell them what it is, they may still decide that if they haven't heard of it yet because it hasn't been the talk of the town for long enough, it's too obscure to bother.
@Georgiana Brummell @Robert Kingett Well, GoToSocial is quite different from Mastodon and Friendica in one regard: It's mainly made for hosting your own personal instance. It isn't really for more or less big public, open-registration instances. As far as I know, it doesn't even come with its own built-in UI, so if you want a Web UI on your own instance, you have to choose one and add it yourself.
Still, there are some public, open-registration GoToSocial instances. And if you're going to use it with TWBlue, the Web UI shouldn't even matter beyond registering an account because you won't touch it anymore afterwards.
@Jupiter Rowland @Robert Kingett Since I use TweeseCake 99% of the time, I am going to try to tag the developers here, and only use the tag for this part of the thread, so as not to annoy them. I also just read some absolutely wonderful news about the app being redesigned, so perhaps, some of the suggestions mentioned below are already part of that plan. As it is, it's a great client, so I can't wait to see what the future holds!
@TweeseCake The main post here describes problems with the Friendica site itself so can be ignored in your case. However, TweeseCake makes almost everything accessible, except the following.
Editing my profile. There is an "edit profile" option, but I am not sure if this is for Friendica or the T
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@Jupiter Rowland @Robert Kingett Since I use TweeseCake 99% of the time, I am going to try to tag the developers here, and only use the tag for this part of the thread, so as not to annoy them. I also just read some absolutely wonderful news about the app being redesigned, so perhaps, some of the suggestions mentioned below are already part of that plan. As it is, it's a great client, so I can't wait to see what the future holds!
@TweeseCake The main post here describes problems with the Friendica site itself so can be ignored in your case. However, TweeseCake makes almost everything accessible, except the following.
Editing my profile. There is an "edit profile" option, but I am not sure if this is for Friendica or the TweeseCake client itself. Regardless, I cannot see the main text of my profile from Friendica, and other features, such as keywords, aren't there.
Accepting and rejecting follow requests. I can see who is following me, and I can also read notifications that someone wants to follow me, but I cannot act on them. Likewise, I can't go to my contacts and change channel notifications, such as seeing all posts, for example.
Working with pinned posts. I can't pin, unpin, or see posts that I've pinned to my profile.
Viewing posts or notifications on the main site. There is an option to view something on the web, but whenever I have tried to use it, it sends me to a "page not found" error.
Seeing blocked users. I can block people, and I can unblock them if I am in a post where they posted. But I cannot see a list of my blocked users, so that, for example, I can unblock someone if I blocked him by mistake.
Seeing favourites properly. Every time I try to activate that feature, they appear for a moment, then disappear.
Using circles. I haven't used these yet, but I thought I should add it.
I realise that some of these features are specific to Friendica, and since TweeseCake was designed to work with Mastodon, it makes sense that some of them have not been implemented. But 1, 2, and 5 are essential.
"In order to assimilate the culture of the oppressor and venture into his fold, the colonized subject has to pawn some of his own intellectual possessions. For instance, one of the things he has had to assimilate is the way the colonialist bourgeoisie thinks. This is apparent in the colonized intellectual's inaptitude to engage in dialogue. For he is unable to make himself inessential when confronted with a purpose or idea. On the other hand, when he operates among the people he is constantly awestruck. He is literally disarmed by their good faith and integrity. He is then constantly at risk of becoming a demagogue. He turns into a kind of mimic man who nods his assent to every word by the people, transformed by him into an arbiter of truth. But the fellah, the unemployed and the starving do not lay claim to truth. They do not say they represent the truth because they are the truth in their very being.
"During this period the intellectual behaves objectively like a vulgar opportunist. His maneuvering, in fact, is still at work. The people would never think of rejecting him o
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"In order to assimilate the culture of the oppressor and venture into his fold, the colonized subject has to pawn some of his own intellectual possessions. For instance, one of the things he has had to assimilate is the way the colonialist bourgeoisie thinks. This is apparent in the colonized intellectual's inaptitude to engage in dialogue. For he is unable to make himself inessential when confronted with a purpose or idea. On the other hand, when he operates among the people he is constantly awestruck. He is literally disarmed by their good faith and integrity. He is then constantly at risk of becoming a demagogue. He turns into a kind of mimic man who nods his assent to every word by the people, transformed by him into an arbiter of truth. But the fellah, the unemployed and the starving do not lay claim to truth. They do not say they represent the truth because they are the truth in their very being.
"During this period the intellectual behaves objectively like a vulgar opportunist. His maneuvering, in fact, is still at work. The people would never think of rejecting him or cutting the ground from under his feet. What the people want is for everything to be pooled together. The colonized intellectual's insertion into this human tide will find itself on hold because of his curious obsession with detail. It is not that the people are opposed to analysis. They appreciate clarification, understand the reasoning behind an argument, and like to see where they are going. But at the start of his cohabitation with the people the colonized intellectual gives priority to detail and tends to forget the very purpose of the struggle—the defeat of colonialism. Swept along by the many facets of the struggle, he tends to concentrate on local tasks, undertaken zealously but almost always too pedantically. He does not always see the overall picture. He introduces the notion of disciplines, specialized areas and fields into that awesome mixer and grinder called a people's revolution. Committed to certain frontline issues he tends to lose sight of the unity of the movement and in the event of failure at the local level he succumbs to doubt, even despair. The people, on the other hand, take a global stance from the very start.
"Bread and land: how do we go about getting bread and land?" And this stubborn, apparently limited, narrow-minded aspect of the people is finally the most rewarding and effective model."
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#ElectronicIntifada’s executive director #AliAbunimah was arrested by Swiss police ahead of a speaking event in Zurich on Saturday afternoon. He has legal counsel. Reason for arrest unstated.
White liberals: "Oh, shit, this might affect us finally. This is all your fault, people we already abandoned and threw under the bus to appease the fascists!"
People who have never taken Trump or the GOP seriously and thought imaginary norms or guardrails or -- LOL -- the courts would protect us are refusing to understand how their party's strategy of "be more like the fascists" turned off the very voters they needed to win, which everyone told them would happen.
This is because Democratic electeds and their most diehard white affluent liberal supporters see themselves as the ruling class and believe everyone owes them their votes, their positions in government, deference, politeness, and obedience no matter what they do. They used Republicans as a threat to keep the rest of us in line so they didn't have to offer anything else. And now that's blown up in their face, they're furious people didn't appreciate them more.
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These are the same people who were threatening immigrants and Muslims with Trump's camps if they didn't fall in line during the election.
They scoffed at the idea that anyone actually cared about Palestinians and sent Bill Clinton to tell Arab and Muslim voters they were stupid for doing so.
They were more interested in attacking Trump for his supposed hypocrisy on trans issues than giving a full-throated defense of trans rights.
Good old Democratic Party machine politics. They have been playing the same game since the Civil War. They did not have a moral enlightenment on race in the 1960s. They just changed their strategy because the old one was no longer winning.
Yeah, because all those populist candidates totally won so very many votes. It's amazing how all those leftists needed was a nice, kind candidate to support, and there was nothing else going wrong at all. How could they possibly have had no one to vote for, if the only problem is it just never occurred to any of the candidates to campaign that way? That's why you ran in the election, because the other candidates were just too dumb and arrogant to win those votes, so you were sure to win!
They also always incorrectly guess that 'be more like the fascists' is shit like 'not questioning leaders' or 'falling in line', even as they can't do any earnest self critique while claiming to be the party that critically engages.
"Microsoft has a 'footprint in all major military infrastructures' in Israel, and sales of the company’s cloud and artificial intelligence services to the Israeli army have skyrocketed since the beginning of its onslaught on Gaza, according to leaked commercial records from Israel’s Defense Ministry and files from Microsoft’s Israeli subsidiary."
"These revelations are the product of an investigation by +972 Magazine and Local Call in collaboration with The #Guardian. It is based in part on documents obtained by Drop Site News, which has published its own story. The investigation shows how the Israeli army deepened its reliance on civilian tech giants after October 7, and comes amid growing protests by cloud company employees who fear that the technology they developed has helped Israel commit war crimes."
Since Oct. 7, the Israeli military has relied heavily on cloud and AI services from Microsoft and its partner OpenAI, while the tech giant’s staff embed with different units to support rollout, a joint investigation reveals.
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