h3ndrik

Oh well. That's a bit more complicated than I thought.

First of all, it might be true that people here won't understand you. And I'm not sure if Lemmy is the right choice for you anyways. The OpenSim community doesn't seem very active. And since you're talking about 13.000 character descriptions... That will also not fly on Lemmy. I think we have a 10k character limit for posts and comments here. You'd exceed that here, too.

And then Mastodon is a microblogging platform. Originally intended for short messages. I know some people use it for a different purpose. And some people go there because of the short and concise messages. So I'm not really sure if that's your place either. It might be you using the wrong tool for your task, since it's intended for a different purpose and you'd need a different tool.

I mean I don't know where the community of 3D worlds mingle... Maybe you can take some inspiration from them if you're not the only one.

But it could very well the case that the alt-text and character limits of the platforms aren't the issue here. But you choosing platforms that are not suited for your task. I'd say if your texts regularly exceed a few thousand characters, you don't want a microblogging platform, but a macro-blogging (or just blogging) platform. There are some that are meant for long texts. And you can even use Wordpress or something like that, do your own blog and install an ActivityPub plugin if you want a connection to the Fediverse. I mean in the old times, people used more than social media and shared their thoughts in forums or on a personal blog, or a website dedicated to a topic. That comes with almost no restrictions.

Ultimately, I haven't seen your posts/toots. And I don't really know the alt-text culture on Mastodon. Maybe my advice isn't that good.

Another thing: Is it really necessary to write that super detailed description in an alt-text? As far as I've learned about alt-text in webdesign, that is originally intended to give a concise description of the image in the context regarding the rest of the text. It is meant to be short and concise, like a tweet. It's read by screenreaders and displayed if the image didn't load. It'd be more something like: "a medieval market squares with dozens of booths, bustling with player activity." But you won't describe what's sold in the market stand at the bottom right, or the portal on the left, unless it's important in the context of the rest of your post. If you want to do a comprehensive analysis or a discussion like in art class, I'd say that goes into the main body text, and not into the alt-text. I'd consider that "abuse" of the alt tag. And it might even do a disservice to people who need accessibility, who now get a completely different experience than everybody else. I'd put that detailed description into the normal text. Maybe make it a spoiler so it collapses.

In the end I'm not part of that community, and everything depends on what you're trying to achieve. But that'd be my perspective: A blog would be better suited. And long descriptions go into the body text, not the alt-text. And if you choose to write longer blog posts, you can still link them on Lemmy, or post a link to it on Mastodon.

Hmmh. I've advocated for more nuanced content warnings here on Lemmy. Didn't resonate well with neither the community nor the developers. I dropped the topic. I'm waiting for PieFed to come along and bring me an alternative backend for the Threadiverse.

Thanks for the summary. I don't really use Mastodon so I wouldn't know. But I'm all for alt-text to images. I set them on every website I'm involved with...

I'm not sure about Lemmy. I use this more for textual conversation. But now that I've learned how to do it in Markdown, I'll add the description to the 5 (or so) pictures I post every year.

I don't think other places on the Fediverse have a distinct culture or vision. Like Mastodon has. For example Lemmy is quite random. And still dominated by the lots of ex-Reddit-users who migrated here. And we often can not agree on where we'd like to go. And I perceive a split/separation between the developers and the users. There isn't really a conversation going on. Neither between users and developers, nor between the users themselves. So my prediction is: As of now we're not going anywhere. Lemmy is going to stay relatively random and will also stay about the same size, until someone steps in and changes this place.

Do you have a vision? Is there a reason why you started this conversation? Something you'd like us to do?

(I mean you could post your comprehensive perspective in a post/thread here, and then also toot the link to Mastodon, or boost it or whatever that's called. I think this is just a meta discussion and it's probably not going anywhere... You got a bit of attention here, but ultimately we're still not discussing the actual topic. At least I didn't yet understand if you have a need or a proposal to make.)

Idk, a plant? a nintendo emulator? enlighten me...

Same, same...

Hört sich an als hättest du ein paar sehr "gesprächige" Kollegen... Ein paar Schnattergänse 😉

Ich kann mir aber schon vorstellen, dass das nervt. Vor allem wenn die Arbeit dann an einem selber hängen bleibt. Also ich finde ein wenig entspannte Unterhaltung muss zwischendurch erlaubt sein, gerade in einem stressigen Job. Aber dann muss auch die Arbeit vernünftig erledigt werden, sonst geht das nicht.

Und über andere Menschen herziehen... Ja, das machen Menschen manchmal und das gehört dazu. Aber immer nur negativ sein ist nicht gesund. Und gerade über andere Leute herziehen und selber dünnhäutig sein ist arm.

Vielleicht solltest du sachlich und bei deiner eigenen Perspektive bzw. dem eigentlichen Problem bleiben und sagen: "Ich habe das Gefühl, dass oft die meiste Arbeit an mir hängen bleibt."

Oder wenn du dich nicht über solche Themen unterhalten möchtest und darauf angesprochen wirst, musst du wohl vermitteln, dass du nicht an dem Thema interessiert bist. Die meisten Leute verstehen das irgendwann und hören von selber damit auf. Auch ohne dass man böse wird. Das dauert aber ein wenig bis sie dich genügend kennen lernen, um dich einschätzen können.

Letztlich ist es auch immer eine saubere Lösung die Schicht zu wechseln. Wenn das denn möglich ist. In anderen Schichten/Teams herrscht oft auch ein ganz anderes Klima.

I see Github as a mere tool. As I could use a proprietary operating system like Windows on my development computer, I can use Github to distribute the code. It doesn't have that severe consequence to the open source project itself and works well. And it's relatively transparent. Users can view issues etc without submitting to Microsoft. And it's been the standard for quite some time.

I'm far more concerned with FLOSS projects using platforms like Discord, which forces their users to surrender their privacy and that actively contribute to the enshittification of the internet. I wouldn't want to be part of that.

Maybe a port forward can do it? That's under Network -> Firewall. in the "Port forward" tab.

I'd need more info on the intended use-case and what's the requirement for a tunneling software that's making ssh tunnels and vpn tunnels unsuitable.

Would you happen to know why that is? Are there enough users using screenreaders or something so that a missing alt-text catches their attention? Or are these the nerds who use like a Linux command line client and that's why they rely on proper text descriptions?

Alright. I didn't get that. But I think my recommendation still holds true. As you found out already, it's not happening unless the UI incentivises the users to do so. I think most users don't care about accessibility or aren't educated on the subject. It's just not something within their lives/perspective. So I think if you want to solve that issue, it has to happen in the UI and the software developers have to nudge people to do it.

If you want to talk to a few users, I think this place is as good as any.

Judging by the history of this community, I'd say you're invited to discuss it here. But it won't change anything. You'd get back a few random opinions of other Lemmy users. But I'm not sure if anyone concerned with the development process reads this. (Correct me if I'm wrong.)

And I'm not sure about the Lemmy software. The developers always say they have enough on their plate. UI changes are rare. And they mostly implement what's on their agenda, not what users wish for.

If I were you, I'd take this to one of the newer projects that's going to replace Lemmy at some point. That would be PieFed for example. They're pretty active and welcoming and open to suggestions. I think accessibility is already on their agenda: see https://piefed.social/post/17408

Another tip: The real discussions regarding software development usually don't happen on social media. You'd need to go to the project page on GitHub or Codeberg (in this example) if you want to get in contact with the development community.

it does not break the kernel any more the way it did.

Hehe, yeah that'd be hard to achieve.

I'm not sure. Didn't they just move the code that was previously executed in the proprietary kernel module to the new also proprietary userspace driver that's just connected to the hardware by this new and open source wrapper module? And the other half into firmware? It's still arbitrary and closed code that gets forwarded to the hardware. And running there it has access to all the memory, screen content etc... I'm not sure if this is a win concerning security. I think it's pretty much unchanged.

But there are several big advantages. Now the kernel probably won't get tainted any longer and we can have signed kernels and activate secure boot easily. And that's maybe a big plus for security. And I hope we'll get the convenience, too. In the past I had the NVidia driver crap out on me while debugging stuff with recent kernel versions or release candidates. And NVidia was lagging behind, leaving me with a console instead of the desktop environment...