• frippa ( frippa@lemmy.ml ) 
    80·
    3 years ago

    Spez is the biggest fediverse advocate, he did something noone else managed to, popularize lemmy

    (only half joking, he’s really bringing a lot of people here)

    • DaEagle ( DaEagle@lemmy.ml ) 
      23·
      3 years ago

      Not defending that joke of an AMA or joke of a CEO, I think it’s reasonable that he’ll have a few prepared answers about expected topics (accessibility in this case) and copy/paste it into the chat. Now why he still manage to answer only a dozen question is, well, a good question…

    • Katana314 ( Katana314@lemmy.world ) 
      5·
      3 years ago

      I wouldn’t draw so many conclusions about an alphanumeric character and colon.

      The response on accessibility though, holy shit. One of the early things I learned when I first coded for accessibility was to not try to make a separate “Accessible version/mode” of a site, or try in any way to intrusively “qualify” users as needing accessible changes before helping them. (“Are you really, TRUTHFULLY, blind???//?”)

      • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏 ( lemann@lemmy.one ) 
        5·
        3 years ago

        One of the early things I learned when I first coded for accessibility was to not try to make a separate “Accessible version/mode” of a site

        This. It’s so easy now, especially with HTML5, to make an accessible website. When I redesigned my personal website it was ridiculously easy to make it accessible, testing tab navigation, devtools accessibility checks, a screen reader and webaim’s site to verify that each page was structured in a sensible way. I don’t have any impairments to validate how useful these would be, but it took comparatively not much time ensuring the best effort was put forward in making the site accessible.

        I can’t see why Reddit, a company with people paid to work on the site and app, hasn’t already done it. Empty responses such as “we can do better” and failing to engage with the communities on their platform that rely on their APIs to make Reddit accessible to all (such as those with volunteers transcribing content for blind users) just lays it bare that Reddit doesn’t actually care

      • Manticore ( Manticore@beehaw.org ) 
        5·
        3 years ago

        For real. That’s one of the first things I learned in web design - accessibility-first, mobile-first. Accessibility is a lot easier with the use of things like aria labels and alt properties.

        Not everybody can use the stairs, but everybody can use the ramp: if you’re going to start off with one, then start with the ramp.

      • MyNameIsFred ( fred@beehaw.org ) 
        17·
        3 years ago

        It was quite a long while ago. This post was her finally coming up for air some months after all the hullabaloo.

        That was before spez came back though. And it was kn0thing that demanded it. Pretty dramatic at the time.

        I’ve been on Reddit over 17 years now. Shame what they are doing but it’s been pretty downhill after the Boston Bomber fiasco and them changing their front page algo to whitelist only and artificial delays to avoid the giant witch-hunts that happened then.

        https://np.reddit.com/r/self/comments/3clu3i/hi_everyone_victoria_here/

        • annenas ( annenas@beehaw.org ) 
          4·
          3 years ago

          I had never even heard about the Boston Bombings till now (or I don’t remember it, not an American), but damn, that whole situation got all kinds of messed up. I can understand wanting the perpetrators being brought to justice, but slandering random people who bear a minor resemblance to a suspect makes no sense to me.

          Out of curiosity, how should the admins have reacted the witch-hunts in your opinion? I’ve never really used the old frontpage or r/popular so I’m not very familiar with how their usage would be affected tbh.

          • MyNameIsFred ( fred@beehaw.org ) 
            9·
            3 years ago

            I don’t think they reacted incorrectly tbh. The thing of it was that this was one of the first times it became “mainstream” and was mentioned in MSM on the likes of CNN. So it brought an influx of users, more so than past surges. This overall the culture changed quite a lot.

            Prior you could use Reddit as a news source. In fact MSM was using stuff trending there to “break” news to larger audiences. They did similar with Boston…and got it wrong.

            Overall once that happened it shined a spotlight on the site. And some of the unsavory subreddits were reported on. But more importantly witch hunts became MUCH more prevalent. Anyone feeling slighted would try and engage Reddit to harass people. And more and more joined.

            There were times where this happened before. It happened to a user named Saydrah in the earlier days who was a mod of some subreddit. But it was much more prevalent and frankly dangerous. Instead of sending pizzas to a house it was all night harassment and death threats.

            So the admins started curating the main page. Making sure the likes of creepshots subreddits werent there. Or super emergent news wasn’t there, because the Chris Dorner thing didn’t help either. Overall it just changed the culture from one of a series of communities to something a bit more…risky.

            Hell I have had people that disagreed with my stances around that time. Thankfully I practiced some basic opsec, but they certainly harassed some poor person thinking it was me. It’s made me very cagey about being online and frankly being honest with my opinions that may be less….mainstream.

            • annenas ( annenas@beehaw.org ) 
              1·
              3 years ago

              Thank you for sharing :)

              I guess it’s easy to get sucked in the whole “I’m anonymous so I can do what I want without repercussions” thing and just become downright nasty towards people you don’t agree with (for some people at least). Ironically, at the same time you’ll quickly be downvoted into oblivion if your opinion is a little controversial. I’m sorry to hear you (and the stranger they thought was you for that matter) were on the receiving end of it. It’s something I certainly won’t miss from some subs…

              But hey, I’m a pacifist by nature and prefer knowing why people think things rather than just telling them their opinions are wrong. So what do I know :')

              • MyNameIsFred ( fred@beehaw.org ) 
                3·
                3 years ago

                Haha. Yeah. I’m not a pacifist, but I wish war wasn’t a thing. And I don’t judge people for a single belief in most cases.

                People are complex. How they arrive at an opinion or outlook is complex. I for one feel we can agree to disagree or have different outlooks and still be cordial or even friends.

                I’m friends with people that lean in many political ways. I can generally separate one’s politics from the person they are.

                I wish more were able to debate without resorting to reductionism, or straight insults or extreme labels and yelling.

                If you can’t talk to your enemies or those you disagree with, you drive them away and dehumanize them.