Amanda Unvarnished

In reply to @rysiek.

@rysiek Reading the transcript now. He's gonna have fun speedrunning the content moderation curve.

In reply to @alexl.

@alexl @menelion reason for why things are the mess they currently are.

In reply to @alexl.

@alexl @menelion Wait hang on. FLOSS software devs will gladly make their software at least marginally visually appealing for free and that's just par for the course, but making it accessible for free is just too much of an ask? I'm all for FLOSS devs getting paid. God knows I've done enough contributing to FLOSS projects for free. But making accessibility some sort of extra/nice to have when actually it's something you should be doing out of the gate is a huge +

In reply to @edwardchampion.

@edwardchampion I've read 103 so far this year and am not anywhere near done. #Bookstodon

In reply to @FreakyFwoof.

@FreakyFwoof I've been on Mastodon since 2018, and have only had occasion to use some sort of quote-like functionality twice. That's how necessary I find it to be here.

In reply to @cambridgeport90.

@cambridgeport90 Don't know if they have. I can see though where if a Mastodon instance is single-user that kind of data could be essentially PII and so the rel="noreferrer" attribute.

In reply to @cambridgeport90.

@cambridgeport90 Yeah I hear you on that. And I get that certain types of data shouldn't be collected unless necessary. But I don't think referrer data falls under that problem set, provided you don't do things like clicktracking ETC.

In reply to @cambridgeport90.

@cambridgeport90 I don't mind the culture so much, but this really does seem to be a biting off your nose to spite your face sort of thing.

In reply to @paninid.

@paninid So what are people doing to get around this if anything? Server logs?