For non-health reasons, I have used in the past now and then the magnifier and the text-to-speech assistant in Windows and had noticed they did not always work with all sites and apps and also the apps themselves had a significant negative impact on the OS performance. I haven’t tried these things on Mint Linux yet, but I would’ve thought hard to believe Linux is somehow even worse than Windows when it comes to accessibility. Also, that makes me feel like even this limited accessibility only exists for the sake of legal compliance… Ableism is a huge problem and, yeah, able people should be more woke about it.

Sorry, it was actually this: https://www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/en/our-projects/reframetech-algorithmen-fuers-gemeinwohl/project-news/eurostack-a-european-alternative-for-digital-sovereignty

Check out rule #4. The server is based in Germany.

Android and Linux

Some of the issues with accessibility in Linux seem to come down to FOSS developers not willing to take an extra mile complying with accessibility standards, others have to do with how the big corporations have much more resources for it. Sadly, that seems to be the situation - I am surprised myself to learn there’s much to be improved in this department.

Bluesky has basically bowed to the Turkish regime: https://www.turkishminute.com/2025/04/17/bluesky-restrict-access-72-account-turk-amid-government-pressure/

I wonder why isn’t Friendica more popular by now.

Linux is becoming mainstream, the other two big OS happen to be closed-source and based in a country which is now becoming a dictatorship bent on declaring war on everyone. If you’re in the EU or in China and you’re still using Windows right now, you might want to be concerned about your security even if you’re just a normal end user. It is widely known Microsoft mine users’ data - and when it comes to that, Trump has been blowing up the EU-US Data Deal. Government agencies and companies all over EU are now scrambling to switch to EU-based cloud providers and other IT solutions. It’s no joke: https://noyb.eu/en/us-cloud-soon-illegal-trump-punches-first-hole-eu-us-data-deal

Not to mention it’s going to be common knowledge in 20 years from now that IS was designed by you know who to fuel Islamophobia.

If your own child was on the LGBT+ spectrum and was right now in the US, your take would have been way different.

I don’t have much programming knowledge, however at this point I’m grateful if I can at least download my FB data - I haven’t tried it yet and, honestly, I’m afraid they might ask for my gov ID. I never wanted to do that, as they tried to when my account, where my main name was my pen name, got busted for “fake name”. Funnily, they didn’t ask for ID anymore when I inputted my legal name! I hate them for doing that - but now I also hate Bluesky for suspending my freshly started alt account and asking for ID via email - which is just bonkers and discourages me from sticking long term to Bluesky. Which sucks cause right now there’s a lot more activity on Bluesky than on even Mastodon, as far as I can tell.

The last poster says: “I found a roundabout way to go at it by transfering the posts to wordpress, I’ll figure it out from there :)” I would have liked more info on that, though I’m afraid there would still be a catch - I don’t use Wordpress anymore and never was a power user, so I’m not sure it would be possible on a free tier to stash an entire Facebook archive on a Wordpress page - and then what about importing it into the fediverse? There should be a guide for this somewhere.

Or you could just use a Mastodon instance with a higher limit of characters, unless you really need intricate formatting and/or more than one picture.