Robert Kingett

I'm a blind and gay romance writer that loves fiction podcasts, audiobooks, cookies, and cats! I follow more hashtags than people. Because I take frequent social media breaks, the best way to reach me quickly is via my website or email.

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2025-04-30 04:06:26

On my #Linux virtual machine I started putting all download locations to go to the /temp folder so I don't have huge amounts of clutter eventually piling up, as I tended to do on Windows. This forces me to backup the essentials and just leave the rest there to get erased and it feels so good working this way!

2025-04-30 03:57:30

Here's a bunch of free EBooks this week yay! https://www.jms-books.com/free-ebook-week-c-617/ #Books #Romance #RomanceLandia #FreeBooks #Free

2025-04-29 04:29:44

The takeaway of the whole #fosstodon incident shouldn't be,
"THIS IS WHY MODERATION IS BAD BECAUSE MODS ARE BASICALLY SMALLER VERSIONS OF CENSORSHIP PEOPLE!"
Nor should it be takes like, paraphrasing here, but,
"I had to examine my stance as a moderator, and really examine the kind of community I want to foster, so as a result of this examination, I've concluded that the Fediverse is absolutely no different from anywhere else on the web because people start drama and people are passionate about things."
Despite those eye rollingly dull takes, we can learn something!
There's a few things we can learn from the whole thing.
1. Notifications are important. For offline people, having to wake up to an instance defederation one day seemingly at random isn't a good user experience. Defederations should be an option for email notifications people can check or uncheck.
What Fediverse projects have these kinds of notifications?
2. In app notifications are important. For this, I'd have placeholders where your friends mentions and stuff are, not home timeline, that say, this instance has been blocked, or this instance has been defederated, or something.
Again, I'd love to know what projects already do this, if any.
3. Taking time to craft a meaningful statement would be better than sharing Mastodon post links, well, unless you have an instance with a character limit such as mine. Seriously, instances should be giant walls of text. I'm not joking! It's been proven, over and over again, that short threads are just a bad user experience waiting to happen, but I've long since learned that tech people don't like to make things easier on users so, let's keep chucking on people! I'm sure it will all work out if nothing changes, but moving on,
4. More projects should start pointing to well ran community wiki's on their homepages or similar.
Community documentation is especially good for things that need quick updates and people need to know where exits are. If you don't want to maintain your own Fedi documentation, link to strong community wikis.
If I think of more, I'll edit this post. I've already read 3 blog posts on the subject by privileged dudes that painted this whole issue as drama, and they aren't worth linking to, honestly! You can find them really easily by just reading the hashtag though.
#Fediverse #Mastodon #FediMeta

2025-04-27 08:29:49

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@nprofile…gjuk His ideas are really good. I can’t get past the fact that, he literally could be the CEO of Mastodon by forking it, , And taking it in this exact direction. If he doesn’t want to start from the ground up, he could take over existing forks with quotes already enabled like Echo and bring them to life https://joinfediverse.wiki/Ecko_(discontinued)

2025-04-11 05:22:00

I'm back online after an outage! https://sightlessscribbles.com/Newsletter/returned/ #Blog #Blogs #Blogging #IndieWeb #NoPaywall

2025-04-05 13:25:47

New post: Popping up and some tiny April recommendations https://sightlessscribbles.com/newsletter/20250403202714/

2025-04-04 21:09:51

So offline, I have this friend, probably gonna rethink that, but anyway, I have this Black male friend that loves Trump. Loves Trump and dismisses any Black/POC writer telling him otherwise. Thinks CNN is Black Liberal propaganda, rolls eyes, imagine CNN being left wing on anything! IJBOL! But anyone got any video essays by Black leftists, not Liberals, on the whole capitalism and Trump things? He seems to like anarchism even though he is a Republican? So he says? But got any #YouTube suggestions?

2025-04-04 20:58:52

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@nprofile…pmy6 I mean, consider that a blessing, honestly!

2025-03-29 18:32:04

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@nprofile…dngu Why not? calibre is portable so no install needed.

2025-03-28 02:04:11

I added Tell Me Why game trailer with Audio Description on my PeerTube. view it at https://spectra.video/w/bKFxn1FgNYpuYLCXHtpj2p #Video #PeerTube

2025-03-24 10:56:43

Recently, I decreased looking for things on #YouTube because the platform, at least on mobile, is becoming an absolute nightmare. Instead, if I wanna find a review, like a book or movie review, I open the podcast app and search via keywords. Found some interesting podcasts this way, with an RSS feed so I don't have to be stuck with one app!
Creators, YouTube is actively harming your reach. On the viewer side, it's becoming a chore to open the mobile app and I don't watch 4 hour video essays at my computer. There isn't 4 hour video essays on podcasts yet, at least, none I could find anyway, but the experience is far less hostile! No product ads in search results, far less than 20 ads in one video, and feeds don't hide your content from me after I follow your podcast.
#Podcast #Podcasts

2025-03-17 16:42:59

I'm honestly astonished #Patreon took the concept of a blog and made a billion dollars off it.

2025-03-16 23:11:53

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@nprofile…naem While I agree, the more I see people saying don't be a content creator but then celebrate indie bloggers, I always roll my eyes at people that say don't be content creators. By posting this very status, you are a content creator.

2025-03-11 19:45:14

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I think I'm more excited than some of my readers! Thank you! Publisher says review copies should be ready by end of March, so if you'd like an advance listener copy, https://buttondown.com/weirdwriter @nprofile…t33g

2025-03-11 19:27:35

Refraining from emailing my publisher to ask if they can send me an audiobook sample of Pass the Salt so I can privately swoon over Kevin's voice without checking out a book from the library.
For those *not* following me and reading this, Kevin R Free is narrating the audiobook version of Pass the Salt.
https://compassiviste.com/product/pass-the-salt/
#Books #EBook #EBooks @nprofile…7737 @nprofile…233c @nprofile…9vtz @nprofile…4mzm

2025-03-10 17:13:07

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I encourage you to tell everyone on Mastodon social asking for a higher default character limit that, but actually provide them with links to other projects so your post will actually be helpful to the newcomers. Also, I'd love to see what your response is to other *microblogs* that have a default character limit of 2,000 or more. Do you think projects with a higher character limit by default like GoToSocial need to be more like Mastodon? Lastly, just because you have a large character limit, that doesn't mean you use it all. For instance, my instance has a giant one. More than 20,000 characters I believe, but this toot is less than 20,000 characters or even 10,000 characters. @nprofile…uyml

2025-03-10 14:41:11

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This is still a problem though https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/12265?ref=privacy.thenexus.today @nprofile…jj8e

2025-02-17 21:42:06

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This has context https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/doge-hearing-blind-witness-online-response-b2697878.html @nprofile…ukrr @nprofile…tja7

2025-02-17 20:20:28

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the quality of alt text is important. and they can go fuck themselves. Alt text is important, and AI alt text isn't adequate, But I can guarantee you the wasteful spending is all about militaristic exploits, and has absolutely nothing to do with the workforce or social programs or blind people not working. We're barely a strain on the system. If everyone in our community stopped working, we wouldn't affect the economics of the USA in any way. Blind people have capitalism brain that causes them to devalue themselves and their own agency because society has trained them to believe work is the only thing that matters. I wish I could find it now but there was a disabled person that just stopped trying to work and she does mutual aid and community based efforts and she isn't sorry for being a so called burden on society and I honestly wish more blind people would stop trying to work and be the best blind person and start lifting up our community. @nprofile…2xen

2025-02-17 20:00:26

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@nprofile…2xen I mean, I actually think we need more blind TVI, and I desperately think we need more blindness rehabilitation counselors. Or whatever their administrative equivalent is. We just need more blind people working in social services, but I also know the dark underbelly of our community so I don’t know how you would balance that out with more blind people in social positions, but not screwing other blind people over because they’re not a super Blind person or similar. And you’re 100% right. Just to add to that, not everybody can be Jonathan Mosen for example

2025-02-16 02:45:23

Just saw someone floating around the idea of charging email subscribers, but keeping your RSS feed free. I’ve never thought about it before, but an email list actually does cost money to run, and if you really don’t want to take the time to learn how RSS works, then you need to pay to keep the mailing list alive. I don’t know how I feel about this. On the one hand, it limits people that aren’t very technology savvy and it capitalizes off of their technology ignorance enough but on the other, RSS is free for us creators. An email list is not. #Email #Newsletter #MailingList #RSS

2025-02-08 07:17:34

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@nprofile…fr72 @nprofile…jpw4 Oh woot! This is fantastic! I'll be pushing to a Github repo so might look into that. I tried Tiiny web hosting but wasn't sure how that worked with Github changes. At the moment, we're working on submenu items working with the mouse. Problem is they are very accessible to keyboard/SR users, but visually it still looks strange. 2 questions.
We're making a collection for categories and also a collection for tags, obviously! Basically renaming tags to categories. I am making a site map. Is there any way I could display all categories and tags into one list for the site map?
the other question, I imagine this is with an NKJ file, but for site footers, what do people usually do? Just make a footer NJK file?

2025-02-08 05:43:54

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@nprofile…dx92 @nprofile…7737 It should be fixed? I tried the link again and it worked try https://compassiviste.com/product/pass-the-salt/

2025-02-08 03:07:42

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@nprofile…ex04 Oh yeah! My mistake. At first I thought it was talking about the more accessible Forza motorsport but I’m gonna go back and edit the post now, but you are correct

2025-02-08 03:05:14

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@nprofile…ex04 What parts of it are inaccessible to you and how are they inaccessible? One thing I hope they keep from the XBox version is the rumbles because even with the auditory feedback, the rumbles are a huge help

2025-02-08 01:41:34

Thanks to fabulous people in the Fediverse, we're transitioning my site, theme and all, to @nprofile…jpw4 and will be looking for a host soon! This is what you get when you have community! #11ty #Eleventy

2025-02-08 00:24:15

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Any time! Huge fan of libraries so I read a ton of news about them! Also good to know for advocacy! @nprofile…2xq3 @nprofile…jgdx

2025-02-08 00:23:26

Welp, this fully accessible game is coming to Playstation! FORZA HORIZON 5 COMES TO PLAYSTATION 5 IN SPRING 2025 https://forza.net/news/forza-horizon-5-comes-to-ps5 #Gaming #Games

2025-02-08 00:01:21

Your Library’s Hoopla Digital Collections Are Breaking Their Budget https://bookriot.com/library-hoopla-subscription-costs/ #Books #Library #Libraries @nprofile…jgdx

2025-02-07 23:55:55

@nprofile…6cz5 Did you see this? https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/113964897388501103

2025-02-07 23:50:18

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So ask #Alt4Me to make one for you, so you can learn from them. @nprofile…qg3d @nprofile…g8jv

2025-02-07 21:22:00

rkingett forked rkingett/AutoCorrect2 from kunkel321/AutoCorrect2 https://github.com/rkingett/AutoCorrect2

2025-02-07 15:06:12

Just finished reading Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States. Office of Strategic Services and pleased to say many in my life, including me, already do these things! https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184

2025-02-07 14:58:14

Web 2.0 failed. True online sharing died a long time ago. So start taking. Take your ideas, your words, your work–and go home.
https://pjonori.blog/posts/own-whats-yours/ #Internet #OpenWeb #IndieWeb

2025-02-07 14:23:51

YAY! Glad I could help out in small programming ways like this! https://github.com/kunkel321/AutoCorrect2/pull/5#event-16225748037 #OpenSource #Programming

2025-02-07 13:20:03

😁 Pass the Salt is in queer liberation library! Check it out at https://share.libbyapp.com/title/10584475 @nprofile…q35z @nprofile…6l34 @nprofile…ethh @nprofile…jgdx #Books #Library #LibbyApp #Libby #EBook #EBooks

2025-02-07 07:46:55

But does it “Free our Feeds”? https://tante.cc/2025/01/13/but-does-it-free-our-feeds/ #Bluesky #OpenWeb #SocialWeb

2025-02-07 06:22:00

rkingett commented on issue qbittorrent/qBittorrent#11031 https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/11031#issuecomment-2640207941

2025-02-07 05:47:19

“A Luddite Criticism of Open Source” at FluConf https://tante.cc/2025/02/06/a-luddite-criticism-of-open-source-at-fluconf/ #OpenSource

2025-02-07 04:39:07

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Hate to say it but they will always pretend we don't exist until they have to interact with us @nprofile…zezf @nprofile…hyrk @nprofile…urzj @nprofile…eyuc

2025-02-07 04:37:08

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@nprofile…74y2 Yes just go to search and search for users with @threads.net

2025-02-07 01:02:00

rkingett pushed to main in rkingett/writertools https://github.com/rkingett/writertools/compare/93595d77ee...ba277fb47d

2025-02-07 00:35:42

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I am only speaking for myself here, but personally, I prefer to read longer posts rather than 100 tiny Micro Blogs broken up into threads! I wish it were easier for people to find instances with *huge* character limits such as mine! I think mine has more than 10,000? I haven't checked in a while. I find the act of reading threads to be a pain because not all parts of the thread federate, so if you have a super long post, such as on my instance, that's less people have to federate and or boost. For me, if I see a thread that is 8 posts deep or even 5 posts deep I just stop reading. Now if someone links to a blog post with a 3 hour estimated reading time? I'll sit down and read the whole thing! Basically, if it isn't 1 giant wall of text, as the kids would say, refering to blogs, I probably will stop scrolling at some point and read a long form blog post instead. @nprofile…q6te

2025-02-06 20:37:29

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I'm sure my email was scraped into some giant marketing list or something but I agree! @nprofile…umw8

2025-02-06 20:04:34

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Thank you! Best review ever! Off the grid is coming out in 2026, yay! @nprofile…g2yn

2025-02-06 20:03:09

Just had a PR firm reach out to try to publish something on *my* personal website, a press release, looks like, so I replied,
Not unless you're willing to pay me, nope! It's my personal website, not a publication. It requires money to keep operational, so how much will you be paying me?

2025-02-06 19:51:06

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How do I resolve this? https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/11031 @nprofile…ukrr

2025-01-24 23:25:13

Looks like this just got released? Buy Onyx Storm special edition here https://bookshop.org/a/77/9781649374189 @nprofile…hz7n #Romance #RomanceLandia #Fantasy @nprofile…9vtz

2025-01-24 20:51:15

Finished Onyx Storm and I strongly suspect this series gonna become a dark romance. Even though I am gutted at this ending, 2 more books to go! I can't wait for the Graphic Audio version of this because Teddy H just isn't doing it for me as Xaden. Nope. Gabriel Michael will always be my Xaden! Others will like the dark aspect of this, but I really am not liking the everyone giving into their darker sides because there was no other options. I'm kinda disillusioned with morally grey characters in fiction. Yeah, we get it, nobody is good or all bad. We get it, but readers love darker stuff so, fine, I guess? It feels kind of contrived to me to have good characters to turn dark and or evil because the author needs conflict. Or maybe I'm just angry about what is happening to Xaden and Bodhi. @nprofile…hz7n #Romance #RomanceLandia

2025-01-24 16:18:17

Yikes, all these leaks!At this point, the best thing you can do is not make accounts for any service unless absolutely necessary. https://dailydarkweb.net/category/darkweb-news-services/

2025-01-22 07:06:00

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@nprofile…6cz5 I love this idea! Kinda similar to #BloomScrolling

2025-01-22 07:04:13

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@nprofile…pfaj @nprofile…kjrn here are a number of directories you can use to find people in the Fedi. the first is Trunk, at https://communitywiki.org/trunk/ The second is the Fedi directory, which I like because it’s got specialized topics and the people in this directory appear to be more active than other people in other directories. you can find it at https://fedi.directory/ and the third is another generalized directory, but it’s more about topics and it uses hashtags so I think it’s easier to find people by topics. This directory is at https://fediverse.info/explore/people and lastly, I would use hashtags as directories. subscribe to a hashtag you like and that can help you find people too!

2025-01-22 00:12:31

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@nprofile…p0zq @nprofile…hz7n Wow! You must be a really fast reader! Yeah, I just can’t take the narrators that recorded Books chose for their casting. I just can’t take Teddy Hamilton as Zadan. Teddy Hamilton sounds like a preppy kind of guide to me and I’m sure the Rebecca woman that is reading the audiobook is nice, and I know she has a disability as well so I hope that she makes a lot of money off of narrating the audiobooks, but I just can’t do her narration it just isn’t my yum! Gabriel Michael on the other hand from GraphicAudio, I will listen to anything he narrates. His portrayal of Xaden is really good! I could not help it. I went looking for spoilers to see who dies, because I can’t take Bodhi possibly dying, and there is a cliffhanger kind of at the end. Look four and five are going to be very heavy!

2025-01-21 23:59:27

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@nprofile…p0zq @nprofile…hz7n I genuinely prefer the graphic Audio version more but this is great until it comes out! It’s so hilarious, but this is the most ironic thing ever! I was very busy helping other blind people get the audiobook onto their streams and or mobile phones. I got through the prologue and chapter one. Really good so far loving it! Absolutely loving it! I’m still going to probably read the GraphicAudio versions more because I like those better than the regular audiobook but it’s really good!

2025-01-21 17:48:16

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Link at end but Gotta jet but this is basically my workflow now! https://robertkingett.com/posts/6121/ @nprofile…uln7

2025-01-21 14:50:56

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@nprofile…hskm Give these a try https://kingettlinks.bearblog.dev/tech-internet-and-blog-related-resources/

2025-01-21 09:46:18

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Link at end but I feel this so hard! I reverted to a text editor but I have yet to find the perfect text editor for me, so I basically use LibreOffice as a overkill text editor, but I wrote a tad about why I left Patreon as a creator here, and what's worse is that the Enshittification of the internet just won't stop! https://robertkingett.com/posts/6613/ @nprofile…uln7

2025-01-21 06:14:21

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@nprofile…6jrh No alt text so could anyone in @nprofile…pzrt or :helpdescribe: or #Alt4Me, describe the image in the original post? if you need help adding alt text, use the #Alt4Me but also, here is a useful guide https://fedi.tips/mastodon-and-fediverse-accessibility-tips/ #AltText

2025-01-21 02:22:00

rkingett opened an issue in rasmuslos/ShelfPlayer https://github.com/rasmuslos/ShelfPlayer/issues/196

2025-01-21 00:39:00

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I consider this to be a slower form of Twitter. Like the other poster said, give Friendica a try but also try Sharkey. See the 2 links below.
About Friendica, https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-future-of-social-is-here-a-show-and-tell-part-3-friendica/
About Sharkey. https://blog.elenarossini.com/sharkey-a-fediverse-project-that-is-beautiful-inside-out/ @nprofile…r65f

2025-01-21 00:08:22

The forum software NodeBB? However it's spelled, just launched #ActivityPub so, for example, you can follow people and forums within your Fediverse account by following something like @nprofile…4xv6 #Fediverse #FediTips #Forum #Forums

2025-01-21 00:02:41

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@nprofile…mhq4 Testing a reply! By the way, the post is nicely formatted on Mastodon!

2025-01-20 23:58:28

*sigh* I think I need to sue #Patreon again. Their accessibility is so bad now that my Safari browser somehow got stuck in the French language while visiting the Patreon website, so I go down to change the language to English and the menu buttons that allow the changing of the language isn't registering with a double tap. https://www.lflegal.com/2020/07/patreon-press/

2025-01-20 23:48:08

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So sorry for replying to a 5 month old post, but I am about to update it with a few options from Buttondown. For writers anyway, ButtonDown will let people pay per email, so you can publish serial fiction and get paid every time you send an email! https://buttondown.com/changelog/2024-11-04 @nprofile…nm0m

2025-01-20 21:12:56

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I think the that instance takes donations directly to the Mastodon Patreon? I'm unsure but can look after I get to a computer. Gonna check out @mossyfoot@pixelfed.social now! :) @nprofile…sm7d

2025-01-20 21:10:07

Looking for more book forums, like this one, with RSS feeds! I tried to make an account on this one but firstly, screen reader skips over half the form questions when tabbing, and there's a PHP error message when I submit, so anyone hosting a similar community on Discourse? https://www.booktalk.org/ #Books #Book #Forum #Forums #Discourse

2025-01-20 21:05:05

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Oh and gotta jet but before I go, my rant on AI and tech bros are here, if you have time for something lengthy https://robertkingett.com/posts/6593/ @nprofile…4v9p

2025-01-20 20:55:26

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Oh! If it helps at all, this website has many guides and stuff to explore, like this one, on following hashtags. https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-follow-hashtags-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse/ @nprofile…x4yz

2025-01-20 19:39:53

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HAH! Yep! Could not agree more! On a slightly unrelated note, was checking out your podcast and I couldn't tell if it was fiction or not, nor if any of the seasons are finished, but if it's fiction, I'd suggest sending to The End fiction podcast directory! But it does look fun though! https://www.theend.fyi/submit @nprofile…4v9p

2025-01-20 17:02:02

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@nprofile…2kd2 I’m not sure what version you’re using, but every time I try and interact with Zen desk, their Excel spreadsheet program doesn’t read at all, there’s unlabeled buttons everywhere in the email, modals don’t immediately gain focus or trap the screen reader, and a whole host of other things

2025-01-20 16:28:25

Free Scout appears to be an open source version of Zendesk. They openly mention accessibility and screen reader support in their documentation and right there on the homepage, which is good! Their demo is here and their main website is the second link. Stuff is deleted after a short while, but this is decently accessible! Could use some improvements but far more accessible and screen reader friendly than Zendesk! https://demo.freescout.net/login
Main page. https://freescout.net/
#Accessibility #A11y #OpenSource

2025-01-20 13:26:50

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@nprofile…7ek8 I’m on mobile so can you send me your about page?

2025-01-20 13:25:04

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@nprofile…p0zq @nprofile…hz7n Haha! I did! I took the day off, but I’m a writer so whenever I want to block off free time, I just make a calendar event that says I’m very busy all day reading! It works great for accessibility professional as well! At least you can listen/read when you get home right? Or is your work super demanding and you have no energy after you get home? I cannot wait! I thought today was the day so I was up at Midnight desperately refreshing my audible library and wondering why it hadn’t appeared in my library yet!

2025-01-20 13:07:38

The Best Romance Books You Haven't Read https://bookriot.com/romance-books-you-havent-read/ #RomanceLandia @nprofile…hz7n

2025-01-20 13:00:00

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@nprofile…x4yz I would be especially curious to learn what hashtags you followed yet! I would recommend #FollowFriday and #BloomScrolling!

2025-01-20 12:49:44

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@nprofile…4w33 Thank you! I have and love Pandoc! What would convert into the cleanest HTML? ODT format or should I save it as plain text then convert it to HTML?

2025-01-20 06:43:03

Disappointed to see Disconnect, a publication covering tech critically in plain language, publishing on #Substack again. I get it, maintaining an SSG is hard and never forgiving and most of the time, draining, but, like, really? On Substack? https://www.disconnect.blog/ #Journalism

2025-01-20 06:24:10

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This sounds perfect because he *hates* crypto possibly more than I do, so this is great thank you! @nprofile…ycyq @nprofile…2p5k

2025-01-20 06:21:35

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Not as accessible as Microsoft Word but it can be used. I still wouldn't call it accessible by my standards but they are improving! I'd take some time to read over https://help.libreoffice.org/24.8/en-US/text/shared/guide/keyboard.html?&DbPAR=WRITER&System=WIN @nprofile…05qz @nprofile…hg48

2025-01-20 05:49:16

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Thank you! Will give it a look before recommending! @nprofile…85wp

2025-01-20 05:32:17

Hey #Fediverse any instances friendly to luddite hackers of color? Can be for any software/project but a few offline buddies wanna join the Fedi and I had no clue where to direct them.

2025-01-20 05:30:45

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It was, especially because we got Pizza afterwards! :) Waiter tried to make *him* pay before ordering, even though he has more money than I will ever see in my lifetime, and that was super weird and it seemed wildly racist to me but after that got sorted we had an amazing time!@nprofile…6hfp

2025-01-20 05:27:13

Can #LibreOffice experts walk me through saving a document into clean, and simple, HTML? Microsoft Word has a save option to save as filtered HTML and that gets rid of the font tags and spans and stuff but does something similar exist for LO?

2025-01-20 05:12:09

Holy crow. 1 hour to transfer all my text files and Word documents I haven't converted to plain text yet over to a backup external hard drive and a cloud storage device? I really should take some time and convert those Docx files to .txt files, some day, but tonight I just spent about an hour organizing my writing projects folder because I was starting to forget which projects were drafts and which were completed. I should have streamed myself doing that, actually, so people could see me trying to keep all the private writings away from anything to do with my literary agent so I don't send him the mind blowing private journal wherein I had wild sex with a local Luddite hacker before he told me his love language was providing tech mutual aid and server administration to very cute tech writers and I melted like ice cream under heat vision!

2025-01-20 04:55:38

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@nprofile…xvq0 Give funkwhale a look. It already exists so consider making your own funkwhale server or joining an existing one.

2025-01-20 03:27:55

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Besides, everybody has RSS enabled on their Mastodon. It's a catch up service where people get emailed a list of links daily, so people that aren't online can still read links that people share while offline but you can do this with RSS feeds. @nprofile…jm5d @nprofile…x8kw @nprofile…2ryr

2025-01-19 23:02:56

#ANARCHISM AS I UNDERSTAND IT https://starbreaker.org/grimoire/entries/anarchism-as-i-understand-it/index.html

2025-01-19 21:55:30

I fear I'm becoming, what the kids call, terminally online. Heh, well, I do love my terminal, but I'm pretty sure that's not what they mean! But ah yes, this is a text interaction between me and a gal offline friend of mine.
Amber. Hey Robbie, so guess what? I just read the most stupidest, worstist, thing ever! So, I was reading one of those blog things, and isn't this the dummest sentence you've ever read?
> With most online platforms, it’s becoming more and more difficult to view a feed of content that is not generated by an algorithm whose purpose it is to keep you engaged.
Continued. I mean, how dumb are these people? Why do they think I *love* the algorithm so much! It shows me things I am interested in! Of course I wanna be engaged, that's the whole fucking reason why I log onto Instagram! Do all bloggers think this way?
Me. Well, it's more about taking control over your online life. So what they mean is the algorithm creates engagement that basically just wastes your time.
Amber, but these tech revolutionaries don't understand that maybe without an algorithm showing me random stuff I don't follow, I'd have never found it! But moreover, social media would be absolutely useless without engagement. Like, what they sound like they're describing is a bunch of blogs where people people never talk to each other and that sounds like an internet filled with unchallenged corporate propaganda. If you have an algorithm, you filter junk out because it doesn't make it into the algorithm.

2025-01-19 20:28:27

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Ugh! Thank you! And I didn't even upload anything spicy to them! Basically a PG 13 movie! This is gonna be a really rough decade for all creators, I feel, because next will come the violence push back. Ugh! @nprofile…z7k8

2025-01-19 20:24:45

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This is why blogs and RSS will, still, be fantastic even after these new social media spaces pops up or becomes popular. If these #Fediverse platforms were at all smart, they'd honestly should just let the centralization happen and just take notes on what goes wrong, when, and then build against that so when the eventual #Enshittification of that new centralized thing happens, they would have built against it or preparing for it with better moderation, etc. One thing I am constantly amazed by is all the people that want everyone to be here *RIGHT NOW!* but here's a secret, if you build better, they will come to you eventually. If people show up, then leave, because you don't have whatever they are looking for, feature wise, you lost and you wasted everyones time. @nprofile…zwgs

2025-01-19 16:24:17

Concerning the TikTok Ban https://starbreaker.org/grimoire/entries/concerning-the-tiktok-ban/index.html #TikTok #TikTokBan

2025-01-19 08:45:49

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Finally found you again! For this, I'm afraid third party clients are the only things I've found that can eliminate boosts completely. Give Enafore a try and a few others, but Enafore has that in the settings so I am sure other third party clients will. @nprofile…s9ap

2025-01-19 08:41:43

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What's your favorite genre of boks? @nprofile…jh3t

2025-01-19 08:36:23

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Woot! Hi! About to check out your profile but hi!! I'd also suggest following more hashtags than people. I *just* updated my guide, if it helps? https://robertkingett.com/posts/5619/ @nprofile…me5e

2025-01-19 08:30:27

#Gumroad shut down my other account because I publish Romance which is the same as Erotica in their minds even though I don't write erotica. I've never understood how, in tech, fascism is cool and smut is gross. https://www.erosblog.com/2013/05/01/the-pornocalypse-comes-for-us-all/ #Pornocalypse

2025-01-19 07:39:29

Saving social media from “billionaire capture” doesn’t mean much when nation-states, corporations, and billionaires already control the Internet itself. https://starbreaker.org/grimoire/entries/free-our-feeds-oh-please/index.html #Fediverse #BlueSky

2025-01-19 04:32:48

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@nprofile…n30u So glad to see Meta people coming over here!

2025-01-18 23:49:16

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Hey! Back again to tell you to check a third party app because Enafore has an option to disable boosts from everyone so I assume it will work for you too! @nprofile…cseu

2025-01-18 19:58:19

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Ugh! It's all that tracking nonsense but yes! Those were the good days! Since I have Clean URL installed, it shortened it to https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0008656738 @nprofile…6cz5

2025-01-18 15:17:07

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@nprofile…279f I mean, yeah, but good luck with that, so I prefer video podcasts and Peertube