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1. Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 02:13:37 JST Eugen Rochko

   With today's update, we've improved the look of the alt text modal you see when composing new posts on #Mastodon, and added some information about the significance of alt text for accessibility and how to write it.

   • Resolviendo la incógnita (rliblog@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 02:27:21 JST Resolviendo la incógnita

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     @Gargron Great. I saw it yesterday. There wasn't any rectangle covering part of the image.

   • Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 (lazarou@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 02:30:39 JST Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈

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     @Gargron it's nice, thanks 👍

   • Fubaroque (fubaroque@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 03:27:03 JST Fubaroque

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     @Gargron It’s difficult to close the popup. Do you really intend that I scroll to the next toot and click there to make it go away? How about just clicking on the popup to close it? That seems a reasonable choice.

   • Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 03:30:55 JST Eugen Rochko

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     • Fubaroque

     @fubaroque Are you referring to the popout pictured in the screenshot? I'm not sure how that fits in with scrolling. There is no scrolling on the modal dialog nor is there a next post to scroll to. You can click anywhere to close it again.

   • Peter Saathoff-Harshfield (pesh@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 03:56:24 JST Peter Saathoff-Harshfield

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     @Gargron Someone else said this too, but if there is text in an image, that exact text should be in the alt text, not just a summary of it.

   • Fubaroque (fubaroque@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 04:03:23 JST Fubaroque

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     @Gargron Indeed how am supposed to close it? The only way I found is scroll to the next toot and click there.

     Like I said how about closing it when I click on the popup itself?

   • Extra_Special_Carbon (extra_special_carbon@mastodon.world)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 19:33:13 JST Extra_Special_Carbon

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     • Matt Wilcox
     • jfor

     @fae2535 @mattwilcox Probably somebody defederated Mastodon.Social. A lot of administrators are unhappy with moderation on that server, so it gets blocked a lot. Also, some admins block any server that federates with threads, which they do.

   • jfor (fae2535@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 19:33:14 JST jfor

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     • Matt Wilcox

     @mattwilcox

     It usedn't to be like that.
     I feel that it changed between yesterday and today. But not sure. Thanks!

   • Matt Wilcox (mattwilcox@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 19:33:15 JST Matt Wilcox

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     • jfor

     @fae2535 No worries. It's one of those quirks of the platform - it's not obvious why it'd be that way.

     Mastodon isn't "one giant thing" like Twitter. When you post, it takes time for other servers to know about it. Same for replies to posts. Not all servers know about each other, so replies from one of those places might be missing for you - unless you go to the same server as the person who's post you're looking at.

     TLDR: A nerdy weirdness of the system.

   • jfor (fae2535@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 19:33:16 JST jfor

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     • Matt Wilcox

     @mattwilcox

     Thank you for the answer

   • Matt Wilcox (mattwilcox@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 19:33:17 JST Matt Wilcox

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     • jfor

     @fae2535 Because that's how federation works. Your own server may not have seen all the responses from other servers yet. It's a technical limitation of not being a centralised service.

   • jfor (fae2535@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 19:33:18 JST jfor

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     @Gargron

     Why is this so?

     Plus it opens in a new window

   • Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 19:33:46 JST Eugen Rochko

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     • Matt Wilcox
     • Extra_Special_Carbon
     • jfor

     @Extra_Special_Carbon @fae2535 @mattwilcox Wrong, the message is always displayed on remote threads. It says "MAY be missing". In the vast majority of cases, nothing is missing.