I'm somcak, a #librarian currently in #Ohio. I have 2 mini #dachshunds and 2 #cats. I enjoy all sorts of music, yes, even death metal on occasion!
I've been on Mastodon since October 2022, and this is my 5th server.
I use content warnings for all sorts of stuff, just trying to be considerate! I always make sure there's #AltText and #CamelCase for my own posts as well as those I boost. #Accessibility matters.
I enjoy learning about #history and #archeology, particularly the #neolithic. I'm also interested in #UrbanPlanning and how we can make communities greener. I have an #ebike and care about #CompleteStreets.
Pour rendre plus lisibles les hashtags de tes pouets, tu peux mettre des capitales à la première lettre des mots. C'est même nécessaire pour être intelligible par les lecteurs d'écrans.
Pour te la péter avec tes copaines qui sont dans la tech, sache que ça s'appelle #PascalCase ou #camelCase selon que le premier mot a une majuscule ou pas.
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I'm somcak, a #librarian currently in #Ohio. I have 2 mini #dachshunds & 2 #cats.
I've been on Mastodon since October 2022, this is my 4th server.
I use content warnings for all sorts of stuff! I always make sure there's #AltText & #CamelCase for my own posts as well as those I boost. #Accessibility matters.
I enjoy learning about #history and #archeology, particularly the #neolithic.
I'm also interested in #UrbanPlanning & making communities greener.
Dear #Fediverse app devs (including the #mastodon web interface itself): PLEASE stop autocorrecting my #CamelCase'd hashtags into all-lower-case.
That's just silly. You should be autocorrecting lower case to camel case instead! Grab the list of all hashtags with the same letters without regard to case, and if there's a plurality of them with the same capitalization (not counting all-lower-case), suggest that. Duh! ;)
If you want your fediverse posts to be seen by more people interested in their subjects, or you want to find and talk to more people interested in the subjects you post about, hashtags are your friend. You can add them after the body of your posts, or #hashtag words in the post itself.
Follow people. Follow follow follow. Your feed doesn't get busy until you are following about 200 people. When you see a post you like, follow whoever posted it. Do this for all posts - you can always unfollow later
Hashtags. put hashtag your posts and look for hashtags you are interested in, then repeat 1 - follow people who post on those hashtags. Also put hashtags in your profile. Remember to use #CamelCase & capitalise each word, helps people who use screenreaders
@sciencewrighter I wonder what those bird stickers are made out of? I have a window that could use that, when it is clean it tends to kill birds. (so I don't clean it)
@ivory The new hashtag features in #Ivory would be much more useful if the app did not make all the #hashtags lowercase. That was common on the old bird place, but #CamelCase is more accessible to people using screen readers and the like. I'm not asking you to convert everything to camel case, but it would be helpful if the app paid attention to the actual hashtags I'm using.
Capitalization affects how people read hashtags or how people hear them on screen readers. Use #camelCase or #PascalCase in hashtags instead of lowercase. You could have #DoctorWhoRewatch ("Doctor Who Rewatch") or #doctorwhorewatch ("doctor whore watch.")
@skua my understanding is that it autocompletes from existing tags, that are registered with the case of first (?) use. I've noticed that the less common tags I use are in camel case in the suggestion box too.
If you have a hashtag with multiple words, write the hashtag in #PascalCase or #camelCase to help users of screen readers. That helps the screen reader to read out the words out individually, rather than trying to read them in one long word.