Tuukka R

In a different part of this same city. I have children who have lives that I cannot break by moving away from here just now.

Most do, many don’t.

Most blind people are not told by anybody that you can use a computer in text form, because most sighted people don’t know you can. The user experience is on a whole another level when you have an interface that is basically tailored to you, instead of using something made for people with wildly different abilities than yours! At least, when I watch my friend browse the web in those two formats, the difference is daunting.

It’s not okay to block them from using an otherwise much better option. Even if not everyone knows about the better way.

Since all real people accessing the site will be doing so through a browser, which has JavaScript built in

Many blind people don’t, because for blind people a text-based interface makes a LOT more sense than a graphical user interface. And the text-based browsers don’t precisely excel on JavaScript.

(But, who cares about some blind people anyway?)

Whenever I’m going abroad within Europe, for a bit over month before that, I start buying stuff only with banknotes. I put all of the coins made in Finland or (other) Baltic countries in a separate pocket and then make sure to use those during my travel.

It feels nice that people get to see coins that they don’t see that often. And at the same time, I’m increasing the relative amount of non-Finnish coins in Finland, which I also think is good, as that helps people here notice that there’s more to the EU than just Finland :)

I would guess it’s unlikely that all that many other people do the same.

Well… I’m using an instance that has 10 active users according to https://piefed.fediverse.observer/list :)

I wanted to move from Lemmy to PieFed, because its development is faster than that of Lemmy’s and because its maintainers have values I have nothing against and because I want to help a cool project grow.

And then I had a bunch of criteria that I wanted my instance to fulfill, and piefed.ee was the only PieFed instance that fulfilled all of my wishes. So, now I’m apparently one out of ten :)