@Elegant Joy Digital Some may have moved to Bluesky because it is what they've been looking for in Mastodon: literally Twitter without Musk.

Some may have moved to other Mastodon instances.

Some may have moved to other places in the Fediverse that are not Mastodon. Maybe they needed more characters and more features and found them on Iceshrimp or Sharkey or Akkoma. Maybe they also wanted to move away from Facebook, got themselves a Friendica account, and then they discovered that a) Friendica is much more powerful, and b) you can follow Mastodon accounts from Friendica and vice versa. And they decided that their Mastodon account was now superfluous because Friendica can do just about all the same and a whole lot on top. Maybe they were even daring enough to tackle Hubzilla's massive learning curve to be rewarded with Hubzilla's massive set of features.

Either way, in the cases in the above paragraph, they couldn't mark their Mastodon accounts as moved to some other specific place, so you won't know.

Still, I think it's bad manners not to tell anyone where you've gone.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Bluesky #Fediverse #Mastodon #Akkoma #Iceshrimp #Sharkey #Friendica Hubzilla

@vulgalour First of all, "image description" and "alt-text" don't mean the same thing.

Alt-text is what's added directly to the image. It's what screen readers used by blind or visually-impaired people read out loud as they can't "read out loud" an image. It's what people see instead of the image if the image doesn't show for them (text-based client, too slow Internet connection, whatever).

Alt-text should never convey more information than the image which it is a replacement for.

An image description that goes into the post itself is not alt-text.

I don't see any rule or part of the "Fediquette" or "Mastodon culture" that speaks against adding that additional information to a reply.

Whether it works or not depends on whether your customers accept it or not. I guess that 99% of your aspiring customers in the Fediverse will be on Mastodon, only see your start post and not be bothered to check the replies. So my suggestion is to leave room in the original post for tellling your customers that prices can be found in a reply to that post.

But seeing as this will happen to you a lot, it may be worth looking for someplace that offers you more than 500 characters:

• a Mastodon instance with a raised character limit
• Pleroma (5,000 characters by default, configurable by the admin)
• Akkoma (5,000 characters by default, configurable by the admin)
• Misskey (3,000 characters, hard-coded; just steer clear of misskey.io)
• the various forks of Misskey and forks of their forks like Iceshrimp or Sharkey (thousands of characters by default, configurable by the admin)

If you need a five-digit character count, the best you can do requires basically re-learning the Fediverse, mastering a significantly steeper learning curve and very likely abandoning dedicated apps. Here we're talking about Mike Macgirvin's creations from Friendica (200,000 characters) to Hubzilla (probably even higher) to (streams) and Forte (over 24,000,000 characters).

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #Pleroma #Akkoma #Misskey #Forkey #Forkeys #Iceshrimp #Sharkey #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Forte #CharacterLimit #CharacterLimits #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta

@titi a mi sí me nicolearon. Hace unos días, en #Akkoma. Que aquí no vamos a ser menos.

Me quedé con la duda de si era alguna forma de presentación en otra red, spam, o alguien jugando a los scripts.

Tampoco mucho problema. Una única mención.

#MeHanNicoleao

@crossgolf_rebel Oh, ich werde auf #Akkoma heute speziell begrüsst? Das muss ein besonderer Tag sein Gut Morgen!

@Silbendrechsler Übrigens auf #Akkoma gepostet.