One significant way Mastodon and the Fediverse have transformed digital culture is through the use of alt text. When I look back at my older images online and in my blogs, I rarely included alt text - even though I actively work on accessibility. For some reason, I simply overlooked it.
Now, every time I post something online, I take a moment to write alt text. Mastodon has changed my mindset, and I believe its impact extends far beyond this. The Fediverse encourages a level of consideration for others that no other social networking platform has before.
#A11y #Accessibility #AltText #Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialWeb #SocialNetwork #SocialMedia
![Screenshot from the linked article reading:
"Next steps
• I [Matt Lee] want you to have a personal website and have your listening habits on your own website, not my website. But I know some people won't want that, which is fine but Libre.fm is effectively a silo (other than Last.fm which it talks to, although federation with other instances has been possible for a long time) and has over 372,000 registered users and 302 million scrobbles.
• Some new features will only work if you're publishing your Libre.fm stats on your own website.
• A new version of Libre.fm's front end will appear later, powered by Ruby on Rails.
• [highlighted] We're also going to put our full attention to supporting ActivityPub where possible. [end highlight]"](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/597178 "Screenshot from the linked article reading:
\"Next steps
• I [Matt Lee] want you to have a personal website and have your listening habits on your own website, not my website. But I know some people won't want that, which is fine but Libre.fm is effectively a silo (other than Last.fm which it talks to, although federation with other instances has been possible for a long time) and has over 372,000 registered users and 302 million scrobbles.
• Some new features will only work if you're publishing your Libre.fm stats on your own website.
• A new version of Libre.fm's front end will appear later, powered by Ruby on Rails.
• [highlighted] We're also going to put our full attention to supporting ActivityPub where possible. [end highlight]\"")
