It's nice to reconnect with old school friends but if Facebook shows me one more titanium minimalist object of dubious utility with a name a like "Frok : titanium cutlery disrupting the common fork" or whatever I may just bounce out of sheer annoyance at the targeted ads.

It's like being trapped in one of those old "future tech" videos from vsauce from the early oughts.

I guess they have me tagged as some kind of "early adopter, huge nerd, will buy any crap" person.

It's not totally WRONG however, I shall waste my money at disreputable little tech show booths and on tindie, thank you.

@futurebird i bounced when zuck literally declared open season on me

There.👏🏾Is. 👏🏾More.👏🏾 To. 👏🏾Design. Than. 👏🏾Making.👏🏾 A. 👏🏾Rounded. Rectangle.

@bri_seven

I've been off for years. Came back in the past month because I really need to gather up some people and get them out of there.

It's like an air-lift operation.

@futurebird good luck with that. the algorithm got my posts pretty much entirely ignored/unseen

@bri_seven

Posting recent pet photos will get traction. And it's shocking how many people are miserable there ... and trying to do very good work in a bad place.

@bri_seven

Oh, and I can't prove it but I literally call this place "the place that shall not be named" Any post that links to the fedi gets zero traction even if it's the kind of thing that would otherwise get a nice set of comments otherwise.

I legit think it's blocked ... possible with some innocent excuse such as "sauropods.win" and other fedi servers aren't on some list of sites that typical generate "engagement"

@futurebird Copy the emoji so you can just paste it after every word. :)

@WeirdWriter

I did. You are underestimating my laziness. LMAO.

@WeirdWriter

Oooo good to know!

@futurebird a buddy of mine made https://clap.sh specifically so he didn't have to type it, lol.

@chris_hayes @futurebird @TheBreadmonkey

it’s a nightmare for people on screereaders by the way

@nellie_m @chris_hayes @TheBreadmonkey

This isn't true?

https://caneandable.social/@WeirdWriter/114004721042096665

@futurebird this stuck in my head for 24 years
https://theonion.com/area-man-wants-something-made-of-titanium-1819566062/

@futurebird @WeirdWriter

I never knew this, either! I’ve seen so many posts here complaining about using too many emojis, and rightly so, it seemed to me!

@futurebird @WeirdWriter

I remember one particular post with a long audio recording of a screenreader reading a ton of different emojis in one single post, it made a lasting impression as you can tell!

So I’m curious, do screenreaders have a setting now allowing to turn off emojis, or do they skip clapping hands only?

@nellie_m @futurebird You misunderstood. When you use this website, https://clap.sh/ all my screen readers ignore those emoji for some reason, but when you use the emoji on your keyboard, none of my screen readers ignore those. There is no setting to disable emojis. I wish everybody that wanted to make that kind of post would use https://clap.sh/ so I never have to hear the emoji. If you use the emoji on your keyboard, we will hear that regardless of what screen reader we use

@WeirdWriter @nellie_m

Ah.

It can’t be actually minimalist if it has dubious utility.

@omatto.bsky.social

You would think.