I left Facebook in October of 2024 precisely to avoid inaccessibility, clutter, and frustration of their main site.
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I left Facebook in October of 2024 precisely to avoid inaccessibility, clutter, and frustration of their main site. Now, I am feeling the same thing with regard to Friendica. I joined here because of the extremely long character limit, the many sites with which I can interact, and the fact that I can edit and delete posts, as well as post locally. Whenever I try to edit a post on the main site, I have problems. This has been true since day one. Now, I'm going to my posts, and instead of seeing the content, I'm only seeing my profile and the tags. I have to go through that same process of editing just to be able to read what the post is. Yes, I use TweeseCake most of the time and it works well, but I have no way of searching posts. So I must use Lukol or try to use Friendica itself to find them, which isn't easy either, unless I tagged them with something unique. On Facebook, I would type my name, a few words from the post, and it would show up. I also have no way of simply sorting comments on TweeseCake as I do, for example, on Luna for Reddit. So I have been missing people's replies to my posts, because I keep getting notifications and other things in my timelines that bury said replies. That may be my fault, as I have several people marked to show all posts. Still, their posts shouldn't show under Mentions if they're not tagging me or replying to my posts, and yet, they do.
I just want to find a site that is easy to use like the Basic Mobile version of Facebook used to be or like Dreamwidth still is, or a client like Luna for Reddit that makes Friendica truly accessible. TweeseCake is 98% there, but there are still a few things that I can't do on it. Perhaps, a dedicated Windows client would be best, and no, I don't mean some strange app that looks like the website.
I would try another instance, but I have a feeling that it will look similar, since it's based on the same software. If I am wrong, please tell me, and I will gladly switch!
#accessibility #blind #clients #Friendica #frustration #LunaForReddit #NVDA #TweeseCake #Windows
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@dandylover1 If I were you I would try a Mastodon-Glitch instance. It is a fork of Mastodon that lets you use long posts. @macfranc, can you suggest a proper instance? -
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@dandylover1 It is possible that your instance has some problems due to the dramatic increase in subscribers in the last month. You could try the social.trom.tf instance, lovingly managed by @tio
If instead you want to try an English-speaking instance with mastodon Glitch Soc, then I recommend the infosec.exchange instance, lovingly managed by @jerry
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@macfranc @jerry @tio Thank you. But my issues have to do with screen reader accessibility. It's about the appearance of the webpage. I don't think sighted users have all of these problems. Still, I will research those. Perhaps, their code is different and they work better. I just hope they have extensive profiles, etc. as Friendica does. I forgot to mention that as another reason for my joining. I like the platform itself. I just wish the interface were better. -
@dandylover1 You can ask for help from @talksina@poliverso.org / @talksina@mastodon.uno who is quite experienced in these tools
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@macfranc @dandylover1 @talksina@poliverso.org Experienced? Yes I do, but I have the same problems. And, Friendica has just one developer -and do not know how to reach him. Maybe he's not skilled in accessibility and I have no code skills to help him out. Should report issues there.
