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⚡ Heard of @gotosocial ?

GoToSocial provides a lightweight, customizable, and safety-focused entryway into the #fediverse, you can keep in touch with your friends, post, read, and share images and articles.

Consider #GoToSocial instead of Pixelfed if you’d like a safety-focused alternative with text-only post support that is maintained by a stellar developer community!

We ❤️ GtS, check them out!

🌍 https://gotosocial.org/

🔍 https://fedidb.org/software/gotosocial

—@pixelfed

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We need to move past only talking about accessibility to recognising that understanding and coming to terms with how ableism works is necessary to even do accessibility well.

Accessibility is the work to remove barriers constructed for disabled people produced by ableist systems.

If you fix the barriers without addressing the systemic issues that produced the barriers they’ll just come back again.

—@nickcolley

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my friend andy and I had flag duty in 7th grade for a week, which meant we were responsible for bringing the us flag from the school office, putting it on the flagpole, raising it, saluting it, and going back inside

we got in trouble one day because no one told us we were supposed to fly it at half-mast and neither of us had this knowledge innately, and that was how I started to figure out maybe worshipping a length of colorful fabric might be kinda problematic

—@biscuit_tornado

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This is not targeted at any one person, just running commentary that people’s posts are less frequent, more angry, more off-topic… it’s not an excuse to be a jerk but keep in mind that maybe around a rough quarter of US private sector cybersecurity people are dealing with impactful budget cuts, have been laid off, or had colleagues laid off and had to take over all their work, or had to actually lay off employees (or worse), and it’s definitely impacting mental health, burnout, and morale. Just my two cents. And we are privileged – it’s way worse in other IT niches and professions. Look out for one another. Be kind.

—@hacks4pancakes

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In reply to @miki.

@miki @Caoimhe @simon @MS26 The food thing doesn't even make sense according to the terms of the universe, since at minimum Mrs. Weasley would have to make at least a bit of everything they eat in order to then magic enough of it to create those excessive amounts. So OK butter for example: They need either a milk cow, which they don't seem to have, or wizard grocery stores, which they don't seem +

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In reply to @objectinspace.

@objectinspace @matt Yeah but here's the problem. The four freedoms, as expressed in the GPL, don't make exceptions for users who need to use assistive tech or need better color contrast or any other accommodation. *Every* user has those freedoms, and by neglecting accessibility users who need accessibility are being denied those freedoms. Saying "use what you need" is a cop-out, and a slap in the face.