Good morning #fediverse ☕️🙋🏼‍♀️
Today is the first
#FediFunDay
#WeAreFedi

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The topic today #MUSIC 🎵
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Have you ever heard a #song and you were immediately captivated by it even though you don't understand the #language ?
Did you also try to find a #translation ?
Post this song 🩵
Comment if you like

#Boost for more reach if you like ☺️

I hope for a lot of music from many #countries

And if someone can help with translations that would be perfect 😃

#mastodon #love #fun

Fedi creatures will boost anything gay.

Fedi creatures will boost anything fox-related.

How do you feel about a gay fox?

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 ​

#gay #fox #boost #JustForFunsies

So I wrote a blog post for the first time in 5 years, warning about hcaptcha's accessibility account. Long story short, they banned me from the accessibility account because I'm not blind. I am blind, but well, they seem to think not. Please boost, share, etc since this seriously affects me, and it's not ok at all. You can read the full blog post here: https://4mt.me/hcaptchastory

#blind #hcaptcha #a11y #accessibility #boost

**Wo bleiben die Universitäten im Fediverse?**

Warum betreiben Universitäten nicht schon längst eigene Mastodon-Instanzen?

Warum bekommen Studierende nicht mit der Immatrikulation auch einen Mastodon-Handle?

Warum hosten Universitäten Vorlesungsvideos nicht über PeerTube im Fediverse?

Es gibt einiges, das für ein stärkeres Engagement von Universitäten im Fediverse spricht.

Ein Aufruf den man nur unterstützen kann! #boost
#fediverse #university @leonido
https://netzpolitik.org/2023/aufruf-hochschulen-aller-laender-ins-fediverse/

Aufruf: Hochschulen aller Länder ins Fediverse! – netzpolitik.org

Während viel über ein mögliches Engagement öffentlich-rechtlicher Medien im Fediverse diskutiert wird, sind die Potenziale von Fediverse-Instanzen von Hochschulen bislang kaum Thema.

^{netzpolitik.org}

To all the indie devs out there:

In case you didn't know, I make open source indie games for the blind and visually impared. This means I need high quality sound effects. I'm wondering if any of you fine people have good resources on finding creative commens, and similar, freely usable sound effects that I could put in the repo with my code? I'd love to learn more about that.

For the record, I know about freesound.org, and have even used them on occasion, but finding anything remotely useable on there can be a chore and a half. Contrasted to the simple search and filtering on something like, say, audio jungle. Tips would be greatly appreciated!

Please #boost if you have any game dev following... Thanks!

#indiedev #creativecommens

• Grizly Gulch: audio only, western/wild west, historic audiogame from 1999 (0 votes)
• Chillingham, puzzle/spooky, audio only, historic audiogame from 2004 (0 votes)
• Stardew Valley, country life/farming simulator, videogame with accessibility mod (1 vote)
• System fault, basic graphics and audio, endless robot shooter with mazes, based on the arcade game berzerk (1 vote)
• Onslaight, basic graphics and audio, asteroids-like game (0 votes)
• Doom, video game with toby doom accessibility mod and map packs (0 votes)
• doom coop, same as above but I play accessible doom with some friends cooperatively (0 votes)
• Doom deathmatch (soon!), first look at accessible doom deathmatch maps from the toby doom mod creator (0 votes)
• Crazy Party, audio only arcade games and card battles (1 vote)
• Fantacy Story II, graphics and audio, jrpg game for blind and sighted alike (1 vote)
• Bladius, nebulous graphics and audio, deckbuilder, fighting game (0 votes)
• Periphery Synthetic EP, nebulous graphics and audio, sound exploration game where you pilot an exosuit through two planets, upgrading the suit and find historical artifacts. (0 votes)
• SoundRTS, audio only, real time strategy game (0 votes)
• SoundRTS multiplayer (see above) (0 votes)
• A hero's call, audio only rpg about rescuing a battered land (0 votes)
• Bokurano Daibouken 3, audio only side scrolling jrpg (0 votes)
• ESP Pinball (classic, extreme, and party pack), audio only pinball game with themed tables (0 votes)
• Interceptor, audio only turn based space combat (0 votes)
• Sequence storm, video game, rhythm based racing with built in accessibility (0 votes)
• Silver Dollar, audio only basic arcade game, slot machine, shooting flying dishes, and beat em up (0 votes)

Here it is. The latest track I’ve released, and the first video clip I’ve ever done. It is, of course, Space Pop (feat. Kaaren Elizabeth Smith).

Kaaren is a long time friend who I used to co-host a weekly karaoke night with, at a small town bar called The Reef back in the 90’s!!

One of the goals of the Dgar Project is to write new songs, and record them with friends that I have some kind of music related history with. When I got the opportunity to record with Kaaren, I took it.

Kaaren, on the day, was amazing. I sent her a demo of the track to practice and listen to a week earlier. She did some really quirky takes. It’s all her voice too. There’s no auto-tune. There’s no pitch correction. It’s all her. So much fun.

The “doo doo doos” she does was originally a melody I played on a distorted electric guitar. On one of the takes she does these “doo doo doos” over the riff. It just sounds so cool, I replaced my guitar track with her vocals.

I also hope you enjoy my #Blender project that makes the video in all its 8 frames-per-second glory!

Please enjoy the #scifi #Dgar #indie #cult #musicvideo Space Pop (feat. Kaaren Elizabeth Smith!

Please find and give the song a “favourite” on your preferred streaming platform if you enjoy it.

Add Space Pop to a playlist!
♥️🧡💛💚💙💜💖
#Boost #Follow #Favourite
Or don’t. I’m not your boss.
☝️😁🤘

Thanks for all your support! 🙏
I love you all!! 🫶

https://youtu.be/ztqPhHmA2YY

Space Pop (feat. Kaaren Elizabeth Smith) - Dgar

Official Music Video.Space Pop (feat. Kaaren Elizabeth Smith).Dgar.Available on Spotify and all good streaming services.

^YouTube

Content warning: meta Some useful tips and tricks for Mastodon Click to open/close

The official Mastodon app seems to have a bug when posting an image. Sometimes it will let you compose the post but when you add the image, the Publish button is greyed out. There are other apps that are good, for example, Metatext and Toot! on iOS, and Tusky on Android.
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There is an Advanced web interface that looks like Tweetdeck. You can enable it in Settings, Appearance.
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Putting plain text into the 'Search or paste URL' box at the top left of the web interface shows results from your own posts or posts that you have boosted, favourited, or been mentioned in. You can also search for user names, display names, and hashtags located in the body of posts. Putting a hashtag into a Content Warning doesn't work. It won't be clickable and might not be searchable unless someone else has used it in the body of a post.
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If you find a post on another Mastodon instance and want to boost it on your own instance, click the … menu and then Copy Link. Go back to your own instance, paste the link into the Search box and press Enter. The post will appear below the Search box, and you can boost it from there.
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You can create Filters to block posts containing certain pieces of text from being displayed in your Home feed. If you want, the filter can hide the post behind a Content Warning so that you can decide whether to view it or not.
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In the Advanced web interface, you can search for a hashtag, click the result and it will appear in its own column. You can then click the column settings icon at the top right and Pin the column. You can add more tags to the same column, if you like.
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If you boost a post and the author edits it, you will get a notification so that you know that it has been edited.
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It's the custom on Mastodon that if you're posting about Mastodon itself, you put a context warning (CW) of "Meta" so that people's timelines aren't flooded with things they don't want or need to see. Likewise, posts about Twitter can be hidden behind a CW: Twitter (or birdsite, birbsite, hellsite, tw). "CW: meta, bird" should be an obvious one.
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When you're writing hashtags that are a combination of several words, please use "camel case" (#CamelCase) so that screenreaders used by people with impaired vision can pronounce them properly.
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Mastodon has its own thread unroller: https://mastodon.social/@threadunroller
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If you go into Settings in Mastodon's web interface and click on Other, you'll see a list of languages at the bottom which you can use to control which posts you'll see.
This works well if you select which language your own posts are in. If you make a post in a different language from your default, select that language using the button at the bottom of the edit box before you post. This way, it can be filtered out on other people's feeds if they choose not to see posts in that language.
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When posting images, please add Alt Text. This allows sight-impaired people using screenreaders to know what is in the pictures. Let's keep the Fediverse friendly to everyone.
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Please use a strong password to log in to your server. If you haven't already done so, make sure you have activated 2-Factor Authentication (2FA) in your Settings. This will keep you and everyone else safe. There are a number of good 2FA apps available in the Apple and Google app stores. In fact, iCloud Keychain on an Apple device can be used to generate 2FA keys. See this article for details: https://appleinsider.com/inside/icloud/tips/how-to-set-up-two-factor-authentication-in-icloud-keychain
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#MetaText #Toot #iOS #Android #Tweetdeck #searching #hashtags, #ContentWarning #filters, #boost #notification #meta #CamelCase #ThreadUnroller #languages #AltText #security

How to set up two-factor authentication in iCloud Keychain

You can balance both account security with the convenience of autofill when you set up two-factor authentication in iCloud Keychain. Here's how to do it.

^{Darryl Boxberger (AppleInsider)}