I've been fortunate to have had a tremendously positive experience here on the #Fediverse, which I realize comes from a place of privilege but they are my anecdotal experiences nonetheless. I've never been part of a more empathetic, non-judgemental, accepting and encouraging social group than here and I will ceaselessly preach about it. The mutual aid and support, the shitposts, the cat pics.. not even my beloved BBSs of yesteryear were this uplifting. This is how social media *should* be.

why do they even call the damned things "recorders" when they have absolutely no mechanism with which to capture or store audio

Some time recently, somewhere here on the fediverse had their profile pic set as Voldemusks's ridiculously blissful expression as he was jumping up and down to celebrate impending fascism in a black-and-white sort of pencil art (I'm too tired to research the proper term, let's call it a-ha "Take On Me" style) that made me bust up laughing every single time I saw it. And now I can't find it anywhere because I can't even remember who it was now. *sniff* Folks, if you or someone you know possesses a copy of this modern masterpiece, "Elon Musks's Cum Face", please DM or attach it below. This crisis is imperative to the survival of the human species. Many people are saying this.

the fediverse is a series of high volume tubes connected by rubber bands and chewing gum, transporting immense quantities of shitposting congealed with dad jokes, powered from the energy released when users view soothing cat and dog pics

Coders, I need your help with an open feature request for the web client I utilize with Mastodon. I don't want to hound the developer who's handling the project for free; nevertheless, the feature request below is something I've been wishing for a long time and I even tried to fork the project but unfortunately working with github is far beyond my already-shallow realm of expertise. I'm trying implement a colored border around images missing alt-text. My instincts tell me it shouldn't be *too* difficult, but when I try to dig into the project files I immediately get lost and overwhelmed. Could someone please - out of pity for a weird little man on the internet - help me figure this out? Edit: Doh.. I suppose a link would also help

GitHub

[Feature Request] Indication of presence of Alt Text without having to scroll mouse over it; or, "The Red Box of Shame" · Issue #34 · enafore/enafore

Hello! In similar fashion to nolanlawson#2250, it would be lovely if there was a toggle to invoke some sort of border or indication of alt text bei...

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