Note by @fastfinge

Rosalyn Anne @Rosalyn@mindly.social

7mo

I’m seeing less blind people post on Masto as of late. And I can’t tell if it’s just because of the amount of cool people I’m following who aren’t blind or because people have left for other platforms. DOn’t get me wrong. I see posts from blind people all the time. It just feels like the number of blind people posting has dropped. Not that there are less posts from blind people in general. But maybe that’s just my field of view talking.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

7mo

@Rosalyn I think it's probably because the windows clients are falling further and further behind. TWBlue doesn't support polls. Tweesecake still has a bunch of issues and no updates in like a year. Even if people liked web clients, Enafore still has issues with notifications and not updating timelines sometimes. On top of that, Mona on IOS and mac released a new paid version, so people would have to subscribe to it; it's not a one-time purchase anymore. If FastSM ever gets off the ground, or TWBlue gets the promised updates, activity will probably go back up a little. But if FastSM becomes the won, it also supports bluesky, so we might see the community split a bit now that they have a choice.

Rosalyn Anne @Rosalyn@mindly.social

7mo

@fastfinge Ah yes. I was missing the client issue. My iPad is my main device these days. I have a laptop, but I only use it when strictly necessary. I’m on Mona 7, but that was a one-time purchase for me. Thankfully, Fastsm looks promising. But I suspect you may be right about a future split.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

7mo

@Rosalyn I'm using it right now. It still has some issues that make it not quite ready for primetime. But they all seem quite fixable.

Joseph King @jdking92@dragonscave.space

7mo

@fastfinge @Rosalyn I switched from Tweesecake to FastSM last week. FastSM now has some features that Tweesecake didn't, namely the ability to report posts/users, along with some pretty decent pole support and scheduling posts. For me, that's huge. Granted, aside from a couple trolls I haven't had to report many people, but the function's there in case it's needed, which is definitely no bad thing.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

7mo

@jdking92 @Rosalyn I just wish they'd get the same issue with links that tweesecake had sorted out. A lot of posts that absolutely have links it says have no links and you have to use the clipboard. I filed an issue with some approaches I think would work and an offer to make a pr, so we shall see.

Joseph King @jdking92@dragonscave.space

7mo

@fastfinge @Rosalyn Right on. For me personally I wish the vlc/yt-dlp thing could get sorted out. Youtube videos used to play in V0.2 and 0.3, but they don't play now and it's kind of annoying. Granted, yes, I can copy the link into a media player that does support that, but that's not very efficient, and I love efficiency.