Amanda Unvarnished

Did you know that screen readers read out emoji?

Did you know your extra emoji flair in your username gets read out?

Yes that means you Joe Smith Nerdy face with thick horn-rimmed glasses and buck teeth red heart.”

If you're hearing a lot about the fediverse these days, you should know: Mastodon is not the whole fediverse and the fediverse is not simply a Twitter replacement. The fediverse is an entire ecosystem, built on something called ActivityPub. Learn more: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/11/leaving-twitters-walled-garden

New #WordPress event on #LearnWP Creating a Call To Action with the Block Editor (APAC Time Zone)
https://www.meetup.com/learn-wordpress-online-workshops/events/289958729/?isFirstPublish=true

Quick little tip: You don't need to use link shorteners on Mastodon.

All links on Mastodon count for 23 characters towards your limit, no matter how many characters they really are.

However, you need to include https:// at the beginning of links to make them clickable.

Lawful Good: language redirect via Accept-Language.
Chaotic Good: language redirect via IP address.
True neutral: website only has one language.
Lawful Evil: block foreign IP addresses.
Chaotic Evil: website is unusable for foreign and multilingual users, as their requests are redirected to a useless demo script, initially coded by the programmer for testing, and later everynyan just forgot about it. (📎1)