{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"Micro.blog - 🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦","home_page_url":"https://micro.blog","feed_url":"https://micro.blog/posts/fastfinge@interfree.ca","_microblog":{"about":"https://micro.blog/about/api","id":"1864417","username":"fastfinge@interfree.ca","bio":"completely blind computer geek, lover of science fiction and fantasy (especially LitRPG). I work in accessibility, but my opinions are my own, not that of my employer. Fandoms: Harry Potter, Discworld, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Buffy, Dead Like Me, Glee, and I'll read fanfic of pretty much anything that crosses over with one of those.keyoxide: aspe:keyoxide.org:PFAQDLXSBNO7MZRNPUMWWKQ7TQ","pronouns":"","is_following":false,"is_you":false,"following_count":0,"discover_count":0},"author":{"name":"🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦","url":"https://fed.interfree.ca/@fastfinge","avatar":"https://micro.blog/photos/200/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.tweesecake.social%2Fcache%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F113%2F250%2F685%2F455%2F187%2F773%2Foriginal%2F512b4e22714d9771.webp"},"items":[{"id":"85308920","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://tweesecake.social/@serrebi\"><span>@serrebi</span></a></span><span> </span><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://dragonscave.space/@amir\"><span>@amir</span></a></span><span> I find that if I already knew how to do it, AI does it for me ten times faster. But if I didn’t already know how to do something, AI just makes a mess that I can neither detect or correct.</span></p>\n","url":"https://fed.interfree.ca/notes/aj0gpakwm9fzxav3","date_published":"2026-02-21T22:35:59+00:00","author":{"name":"🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦","url":"https://fed.interfree.ca/@fastfinge","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.tweesecake.social%2Fcache%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F113%2F250%2F685%2F455%2F187%2F773%2Foriginal%2F512b4e22714d9771.webp","_microblog":{"username":"fastfinge@interfree.ca"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-02-21 22:35","date_timestamp":1771713359,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"85308919","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://tweesecake.social/@serrebi\"><span>@serrebi</span></a></span><span> </span><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://dragonscave.space/@amir\"><span>@amir</span></a></span><span> The problem is there are too many people running AI who don’t actually know how to check a script. They just paste the code in and run it, then wonder why AI makes a mess.</span></p>\n","url":"https://fed.interfree.ca/notes/aj0gmj3nkemsx0mj","date_published":"2026-02-21T22:33:50+00:00","author":{"name":"🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦","url":"https://fed.interfree.ca/@fastfinge","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.tweesecake.social%2Fcache%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F113%2F250%2F685%2F455%2F187%2F773%2Foriginal%2F512b4e22714d9771.webp","_microblog":{"username":"fastfinge@interfree.ca"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-02-21 22:33","date_timestamp":1771713230,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"85308918","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://tweesecake.social/@serrebi\"><span>@serrebi</span></a></span><span> </span><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://dragonscave.space/@amir\"><span>@amir</span></a></span><span> The script wasn’t AI. It was written by some guy years ago.</span></p>\n","url":"https://fed.interfree.ca/notes/aj0gkbn8h47trzfa","date_published":"2026-02-21T22:32:07+00:00","author":{"name":"🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦","url":"https://fed.interfree.ca/@fastfinge","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.tweesecake.social%2Fcache%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F113%2F250%2F685%2F455%2F187%2F773%2Foriginal%2F512b4e22714d9771.webp","_microblog":{"username":"fastfinge@interfree.ca"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-02-21 22:32","date_timestamp":1771713127,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"85308917","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://dragonscave.space/@amir\"><span>@amir</span></a></span><span> </span><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://tweesecake.social/@serrebi\"><span>@serrebi</span></a></span><span> If you want to have an item in the windows explorer context menu to exclude a folder from Windows Defender, this bat file will add that: </span><a href=\"https://nashcentral.duckdns.org/projects/defender.bat\">nashcentral.duckdns.org/projects/defender.bat</a></p>\n","url":"https://fed.interfree.ca/notes/aj0gds5n6dpdqxkr","date_published":"2026-02-21T22:27:02+00:00","author":{"name":"🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦","url":"https://fed.interfree.ca/@fastfinge","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.tweesecake.social%2Fcache%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F113%2F250%2F685%2F455%2F187%2F773%2Foriginal%2F512b4e22714d9771.webp","_microblog":{"username":"fastfinge@interfree.ca"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-02-21 22:27","date_timestamp":1771712822,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"82008872","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://dragonscave.space/@dhamlinmusic\"><span>@dhamlinmusic</span></a></span><span> </span><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://caneandable.social/@lynessence\"><span>@lynessence</span></a></span><span> </span><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://allovertheplace.ca/@quanin\"><span>@quanin</span></a></span><span> </span><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://allovertheplace.ca/@mcourcel\"><span>@mcourcel</span></a></span><span> I think that says more about how fragile and broken TalkBack is. I have an Android phone for work and I had to replace talkback to get anything done. And it’s still not as smooth as IOS.</span></p>\n","url":"https://fed.interfree.ca/notes/aefm1uvdcyq9y6ha","date_published":"2025-10-29T13:43:44+00:00","author":{"name":"🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦","url":"https://fed.interfree.ca/@fastfinge","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.tweesecake.social%2Fcache%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F113%2F250%2F685%2F455%2F187%2F773%2Foriginal%2F512b4e22714d9771.webp","_microblog":{"username":"fastfinge@interfree.ca"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-10-29 13:43","date_timestamp":1761745424,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"82008871","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://dragonscave.space/@dhamlinmusic\"><span>@dhamlinmusic</span></a></span><span> </span><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://caneandable.social/@lynessence\"><span>@lynessence</span></a></span><span> </span><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://allovertheplace.ca/@quanin\"><span>@quanin</span></a></span><span> </span><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://allovertheplace.ca/@mcourcel\"><span>@mcourcel</span></a></span><span> Yup. But I’m on voiceover on IOS, and that’s the most popular combo, so I tend to be fine.</span></p>\n","url":"https://fed.interfree.ca/notes/aefl7hp8y404619n","date_published":"2025-10-29T13:20:07+00:00","author":{"name":"🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦","url":"https://fed.interfree.ca/@fastfinge","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.tweesecake.social%2Fcache%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F113%2F250%2F685%2F455%2F187%2F773%2Foriginal%2F512b4e22714d9771.webp","_microblog":{"username":"fastfinge@interfree.ca"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-10-29 13:20","date_timestamp":1761744007,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"82008870","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://allovertheplace.ca/@quanin\"><span>@quanin</span></a></span><span> </span><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://dragonscave.space/@dhamlinmusic\"><span>@dhamlinmusic</span></a></span><span> </span><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://caneandable.social/@lynessence\"><span>@lynessence</span></a></span><span> </span><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://allovertheplace.ca/@mcourcel\"><span>@mcourcel</span></a></span><span> Nah, five years ago they used to ask on mailing lists for someone else to Google Shit. The lazy people were always, and will always be, lazy.</span></p>\n","url":"https://fed.interfree.ca/notes/aeetx8aiwcysda10","date_published":"2025-10-29T00:36:19+00:00","author":{"name":"🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦","url":"https://fed.interfree.ca/@fastfinge","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.tweesecake.social%2Fcache%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F113%2F250%2F685%2F455%2F187%2F773%2Foriginal%2F512b4e22714d9771.webp","_microblog":{"username":"fastfinge@interfree.ca"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-10-29 00:36","date_timestamp":1761698179,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"82008868","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://caneandable.social/@lynessence\"><span>@lynessence</span></a></span><span> </span><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://dragonscave.space/@dhamlinmusic\"><span>@dhamlinmusic</span></a></span><span> </span><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://allovertheplace.ca/@quanin\"><span>@quanin</span></a></span><span> </span><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://allovertheplace.ca/@mcourcel\"><span>@mcourcel</span></a></span><span> I’m kind of not? Like, they didn’t need AI to elect a fascist government to our south. AI might make things slightly better, or slightly worse…but mostly it’ll just make things different. We didn’t need AI to lose trust in the news media. Covid and vaccine conspiracies were alive and well before GPT. Bitcoin and cars were already destroying the environment. Cheap kids crap on YouTube was already destroying brains. AI is either a cure or a null factor.</span></p>\n","url":"https://fed.interfree.ca/notes/aeetptz9vv2tfc49","date_published":"2025-10-29T00:30:34+00:00","author":{"name":"🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦","url":"https://fed.interfree.ca/@fastfinge","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.tweesecake.social%2Fcache%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F113%2F250%2F685%2F455%2F187%2F773%2Foriginal%2F512b4e22714d9771.webp","_microblog":{"username":"fastfinge@interfree.ca"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-10-29 00:30","date_timestamp":1761697834,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"82008863","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://allovertheplace.ca/@quanin\"><span>@quanin</span></a></span><span> </span><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://dragonscave.space/@dhamlinmusic\"><span>@dhamlinmusic</span></a></span><span> </span><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://caneandable.social/@lynessence\"><span>@lynessence</span></a></span><span> </span><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://allovertheplace.ca/@mcourcel\"><span>@mcourcel</span></a></span><span> To be fair, I use iceshrimp.net, not Mastodon. So I have no idea what’s possible on Mastodon.</span></p>\n","url":"https://fed.interfree.ca/notes/aeesxba7hgtgxbz5","date_published":"2025-10-29T00:08:23+00:00","author":{"name":"🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦","url":"https://fed.interfree.ca/@fastfinge","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.tweesecake.social%2Fcache%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F113%2F250%2F685%2F455%2F187%2F773%2Foriginal%2F512b4e22714d9771.webp","_microblog":{"username":"fastfinge@interfree.ca"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-10-29 00:08","date_timestamp":1761696503,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"82008861","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://allovertheplace.ca/@mcourcel\"><span>@mcourcel</span></a></span><span> </span><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://dragonscave.space/@dhamlinmusic\"><span>@dhamlinmusic</span></a></span><span> </span><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://caneandable.social/@lynessence\"><span>@lynessence</span></a></span><span> </span><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://allovertheplace.ca/@quanin\"><span>@quanin</span></a></span><span> Yes. You can. And then you have to go into the database directly and edit a column to fix it. Don’t ask me how I know.</span></p>\n","url":"https://fed.interfree.ca/notes/aeesvu9g5sxp5nsz","date_published":"2025-10-29T00:07:14+00:00","author":{"name":"🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦","url":"https://fed.interfree.ca/@fastfinge","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.tweesecake.social%2Fcache%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F113%2F250%2F685%2F455%2F187%2F773%2Foriginal%2F512b4e22714d9771.webp","_microblog":{"username":"fastfinge@interfree.ca"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-10-29 00:07","date_timestamp":1761696434,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"82008860","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://dragonscave.space/@dhamlinmusic\"><span>@dhamlinmusic</span></a></span><span> </span><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://caneandable.social/@lynessence\"><span>@lynessence</span></a></span><span> </span><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://allovertheplace.ca/@quanin\"><span>@quanin</span></a></span><span> As a large language model, talking about fire is irresponsible and against my ethical guidelines, as it may burn people. Perhaps we could talk about something else instead, like pink fluffy unicorns dancing on rainbows.</span></p>\n","url":"https://fed.interfree.ca/notes/aeeslm5sc9tn6929","date_published":"2025-10-28T23:59:17+00:00","author":{"name":"🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦","url":"https://fed.interfree.ca/@fastfinge","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.tweesecake.social%2Fcache%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F113%2F250%2F685%2F455%2F187%2F773%2Foriginal%2F512b4e22714d9771.webp","_microblog":{"username":"fastfinge@interfree.ca"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-10-28 23:59","date_timestamp":1761695957,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"82008859","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://allovertheplace.ca/@quanin\"><span>@quanin</span></a></span><span> </span><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://dragonscave.space/@dhamlinmusic\"><span>@dhamlinmusic</span></a></span><span> </span><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://caneandable.social/@lynessence\"><span>@lynessence</span></a></span><span> Yeah, my instance admin banned me the other day! Stupid jerk. I really don’t like that guy.</span></p>\n","url":"https://fed.interfree.ca/notes/aeesaxt1sd4ch5j2","date_published":"2025-10-28T23:50:59+00:00","author":{"name":"🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦","url":"https://fed.interfree.ca/@fastfinge","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.tweesecake.social%2Fcache%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F113%2F250%2F685%2F455%2F187%2F773%2Foriginal%2F512b4e22714d9771.webp","_microblog":{"username":"fastfinge@interfree.ca"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-10-28 23:50","date_timestamp":1761695459,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"82008857","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://dragonscave.space/@dhamlinmusic\"><span>@dhamlinmusic</span></a></span><span> </span><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://caneandable.social/@lynessence\"><span>@lynessence</span></a></span><span> </span><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://allovertheplace.ca/@quanin\"><span>@quanin</span></a></span><span> Eh, this is Mastodon. The only rules are the rules we make for ourselves.  BE UNGOVERNABLE!</span></p>\n","url":"https://fed.interfree.ca/notes/aees7v3rkc8mme0k","date_published":"2025-10-28T23:48:36+00:00","author":{"name":"🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦","url":"https://fed.interfree.ca/@fastfinge","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.tweesecake.social%2Fcache%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F113%2F250%2F685%2F455%2F187%2F773%2Foriginal%2F512b4e22714d9771.webp","_microblog":{"username":"fastfinge@interfree.ca"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-10-28 23:48","date_timestamp":1761695316,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"82008856","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://allovertheplace.ca/@quanin\"><span>@quanin</span></a></span><span> </span><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://caneandable.social/@lynessence\"><span>@lynessence</span></a></span><span> Tonight is gonna be interesting, with them all exhausted. And I’m happy we’ve managed to turn this thread into exactly what I was talking about. You know, as an example for anyone who hasn’t noticed the phenomenon.</span></p>\n","url":"https://fed.interfree.ca/notes/aees0gj4kc97a2yw","date_published":"2025-10-28T23:42:50+00:00","author":{"name":"🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦","url":"https://fed.interfree.ca/@fastfinge","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.tweesecake.social%2Fcache%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F113%2F250%2F685%2F455%2F187%2F773%2Foriginal%2F512b4e22714d9771.webp","_microblog":{"username":"fastfinge@interfree.ca"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-10-28 23:42","date_timestamp":1761694970,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"82008855","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://caneandable.social/@lynessence\"><span>@lynessence</span></a></span><span> </span><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/@chris\"><span>@chris</span></a></span><span> A mastodon thread going off topic and forgetting to remove the other people who were included? Never!  Anyway, have you been staying up for these Bluejays games? I was up until 3 AM last night.</span></p>\n","url":"https://fed.interfree.ca/notes/aeerhfktmby4jskn","date_published":"2025-10-28T23:28:03+00:00","author":{"name":"🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦","url":"https://fed.interfree.ca/@fastfinge","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.tweesecake.social%2Fcache%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F113%2F250%2F685%2F455%2F187%2F773%2Foriginal%2F512b4e22714d9771.webp","_microblog":{"username":"fastfinge@interfree.ca"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-10-28 23:28","date_timestamp":1761694083,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"82008854","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/@chris\"><span>@chris</span></a></span><span> That actually makes me think of what could be another reason. The online blind community is quite tight, and highly interconnected. So if I reply to one blind person, odds are a lot of other blind people follow us both, so will read the conversation and jump in. Whereas if you only follow one or two blind people, you would miss out on that conversation, because I think Mastodon only shows you replies to people you follow?</span></p>\n","url":"https://fed.interfree.ca/notes/aeepwccmg64dejmc","date_published":"2025-10-28T22:43:39+00:00","author":{"name":"🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦","url":"https://fed.interfree.ca/@fastfinge","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.tweesecake.social%2Fcache%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F113%2F250%2F685%2F455%2F187%2F773%2Foriginal%2F512b4e22714d9771.webp","_microblog":{"username":"fastfinge@interfree.ca"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-10-28 22:43","date_timestamp":1761691419,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"82008852","content_html":" <span>So one thing I notice about </span><a href=\"https://fed.interfree.ca/tags/blind\" class=\"hashtag\">#blind</a><span> Internet culture: even back on Twitter, and now here in the </span><a href=\"https://fed.interfree.ca/tags/fediverse\" class=\"hashtag\">#fediverse</a><span>, blind people tend towards having discussions in giant threads, sometimes with as many as 10-12 people in them, that can often stretch on for days. I rarely (if ever) see sighted culture do this. I wonder why? It's not a criticism, it's just interesting to me. Maybe because Discord and other chat apps were historically less </span><a href=\"https://fed.interfree.ca/tags/accessible\" class=\"hashtag\">#accessible</a><span>, so blind culture tends to use the fediverse more as a discussion platform? Or maybe it's something UI related that makes it easier for blind folks to track giant threads of doom? The few times I've been involved in this style of discussion with sighted folks, they've become confused and begged for everyone to move to Discord or Slack or somewhere. On the other hand, I rarely see blind people do a single, lengthy post broken up and threaded the way sighted people do, with (1/N) at the end. We tend to just move to instances with longer character limits, or put our long form thoughts on a webpage or something.<br><br>Edit to add: I'm pleased to say that this post has now become a perfect example of the thing I was talking about; my last post in the thread included the phrase \"transsexual furry puppygirls\". It makes me happy that people unfamiliar with what I'm talking about need do nothing more than look at the thread on this post.</span> ","summary":"","url":"https://fed.interfree.ca/notes/aeepo9ot6d8h26r8","date_published":"2025-10-28T22:37:22+00:00","author":{"name":"🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦","url":"https://fed.interfree.ca/@fastfinge","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.tweesecake.social%2Fcache%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F113%2F250%2F685%2F455%2F187%2F773%2Foriginal%2F512b4e22714d9771.webp","_microblog":{"username":"fastfinge@interfree.ca"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-10-28 22:37","date_timestamp":1761691042,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}}]}