Do you use Instagram despite it being half accessible?(self.Blind)
submitted by Aggressive-Yoghurt31
Emmenias9 points1y ago
No. Why would I? Even if its accessibility were amazing, it's still owned by Facebook; an absolute privacy nightmare. I am much happier on Mastodon, where nearly everyon captions their images.
SpektrumKid2 points1y ago
Lead me to mastodon. Does it have an app?
Emmenias2 points1y ago
It has several mobile apps. On Android, Tusky and Android are both entirely accessible. On iOS, I believe the best one is Metatext. Avoid the official Mastodon app; contrary to what you may think, it's actually the one missing most of the important features.
The thing with Mastodon is that there is no mastodon.com like there is a twitter.com. It is composed of thousands of instances, all able to communicate with each other. Think of it like email; if you're using Gmail and I Protonmail, I can still email you. Each of these instances has its own moderation team, rules to follow, general community vibe.
It'd be best to look around a little, on places such as JoinMastodon.org and instances.social, to find a place that would fit you. If you're looking for something specific, I can help with recommendations as well. However, if you'd rather not, I do hapen to be an admin of a cozy little instance with a primarily blind&VI population: https://dragonscave.space
Please, read the rules before applying. Otherwise, your application will be rejected.
Aggressive-Yoghurt31 [OP]-1 points1y ago
Well it is one of the most popular if not the most popular social media app, and as for privacy the Internet is not a safe place you just have to watch out for what you post
gilligvroom6 points1y ago
It's not about what you post, it's about the data mining and permissions it requests from your phone - trackers, location data, so on and so forth. Many choose not to use it for that reason who may have never intended to post, but simply browse.
And not that it matters much but TikTok is very handily stealing their market and has way worse privacy violations built in as a feature. Everything is horrible, lol.
yourmommaisaunicorn4 points1y ago
It’s popular for advertisements. If you don’t want ads, you’re better off using any other platform.
thatawkwardcosplayer4 points1y ago
I used use it for my cosplay but then all the updates happened and I couldn’t figure it out. Had to put my account perma hiatus until I can find someone whose willing to manage it for me (w pay obvs)
DHamlinMusic4 points1y ago
I don’t use it in general, even before going blind.
TechnicalPragmatist3 points1y ago
I only use it for messaging purposes and to upload all my vacation photos so I don’t have to keep it all on my hard drive but otherwise no not really.
Coloratura19873 points1y ago
Yes, I’ll occasionally pop on to see what my friends are up to. If there’s no caption, then I just ask what the picture is, and 99 times out of 100, people are more than happy to describe the image.
ShoshanaLi3 points1y ago
I use it, but yeah, the accessibility problems are frustrating.
CedaraThursday13143 points1y ago
Yes, I do.
Aggressive-Yoghurt31 [OP]3 points1y ago
Stories are totally inaccessible, well I guess you can get some information about The content. do you ignore them completely or troubleshoot to get the content, it is a shame that such a big platform hasn't done anything in terms of accessibility about one of its biggest features
CedaraThursday13143 points1y ago
I can still see with one eye, but I do wish the font size was bigger.
LilacRose322 points1y ago
No, I’ve never felt like the target audience
DannyMTZ9561 points1y ago
I post from Facebook, and the post is shared to Instagram too.
rwbeardjr1 points1y ago
I have it, but it's only so I can talk to a couple people.
Simply_Limeade1 points1y ago
Personally no. Whilst I post this ironically into a social media thread. I generally hate most of social media. Not due to accessibility. But the toxicity and sheer exhaustion of socialization.
Berenice1011 points1y ago
I tried it but it’s not for me.
r_12351 points1y ago
Created an account because some potential employer I was interviewing for wanted my insta profile link. Never used it though. Only my family and randum people who know me follow me. Lol! It's totally blank.
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