@ferrante @informapirata Antonella! Ti ricordi!!! Si ho comunciato il blog sul fediverso un anno fa (esattamente l’11 giugno).

Mi ricordo ancora delle spiegazioni che mi hai fatto su Friendica… E ora ho la mia propria istanza di Friendica, Pixelfed, PeerTube e GoToSocial !!! E’ tutto grazie a voi ❤️

grazie di cuore per i commenti - il mio viso in questo momento: 🥹

@[email protected] @[email protected] amazing idea (and implementation)!!! 👏

@[email protected] see I was totally serious - your comment made my day 😂

@[email protected] haha I love it! ❤️ I’ll screenshot this and print it out / tape it to my monitor 😂 🤣

@[email protected] I’m not sure about that.

But the Fediverse is really all about building genuine connections (as opposed to growing followers / vanity metrics) so I wouldn’t worry about that

@[email protected] P.S.: Lauren it may be a good idea to write an #introduction post (using that hashtag) and pin it at the top of your profile 🤗 https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/08/mastodon-quick-start-guide/

@[email protected] 😂 people here are the nicest!

Welcome again Lauren 😊

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] congratulations @[email protected] !!! 🥳 🥳 🥳

@seth thank you Seth! 😊

@[email protected] @[email protected] thank you! 🥰

@[email protected] awww thank you Jerry! I’m delighted to hear you enjoyed this post ✨

@[email protected] yes I’d love to discuss Hall of Fame. And didn’t realize @[email protected] was done by another Stefan 😅 @[email protected] thanks for the clarification!

@[email protected] ha! I replied to your other post before seeing this one. Will definitely mention your work in part 2. Maybe I’ll reach out soon with a couple of questions, if that’s ok? It would be great to quote you on your work with #AltText bots

@[email protected] thank you for sharing my post Stefan! ❤️ LOVE your work by the way and I’ll be mentioning your #AltText bot in part 2

@mathi_gwithyas thank you for checking Mathi! It’s just so strange - definitely looks like a big oversight

Update no. 2: mystery solved thanks to @[email protected] ✨🏆✨

So on the Threads MOBILE app you need to enable the accessibility text button by clicking on:

settings > account > accessibility > show alt text

Source:
https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]/113192022494725131

If you don’t click on it, you won’t see the alt text. And I could not find that setting on Threads on desktop 🤔

I just pinged @pcottle on Threads asking if he could turn it on BY DEFAULT for EVERYONE to raise awareness about accessibility

@[email protected] I looked for the setting under Account on my desktop computer but couldn’t find it 🤷‍♀️

Thanks again for your help!

@[email protected] thanks! but what about desktop?

I will fetch my burner phone and turn it on ;)

@[email protected] ha! thanks! for the record I have that app installed on a burner phone - it makes me feel so icky to have anything to do with something by Meta

Follow-up:

I posted a poll on Threads about #alttext (which likely nobody will see) and I replied to my own message with a photo with an alt text description.

Once the photo is published I cannot read the alt text I had written. Am I doing something wrong? The post is here: https://www.threads.net/@elenarossini/post/DAS8jb-Ntl-?xmt=AQGzU6RVWnVjBvoDGP6ft8CGHZwncy-1-vRAQxtB7ldFRA

And sorry for linking to a Meta website, but for the record I only use Threads to post messages about the #Fediverse 🤗