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On Blocking, Mastodon HOA Edition.
One of Mastodon's biggest barriers to entry is the Mastodon HOA, the massive volunteer army of scolds who take it upon themselves to tell strangers that they are doing it wrong. It's like you're waiting in line at...
https://jwz.org/b/ykho
@jwz I wish that gifs didn't have alt text on them, because you have to mouse over the gif to start it, and then alt text pops up OVER the gif I just moused over to start it playing. I find myself sneaking my cursor up on the bottom right of the gif so that I can activate it and not have it blocked by description text.
@tito_swineflu This is a consequence of the Mastodon web UI abusing the TITLE attribute by conflating it with ALT, in direct contravention of the standard. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/30016
@jwz Yeah, and it's irritating!
@tito_swineflu @jwz The latest version on mastodon.social removes the title tag, in favor of a clickable alt label. So you no longer get the hover title. mastodon.social deploys pre-releases, so this change should presumably be coming to other servers soon, once it's released and your server admin updates.
@unlambda @tito_swineflu Oh, I hadn't noticed that! That is fantastic news.