Elad has programmed a holiday gift for DU -- (limited) Mastodon embedding is now available

[Ms. Toad]

31. Removing it is probably a good decision.

The inherent nature of Fediverse has been my main concern about Mastadon, generally. I've been focused on accessibility - my goal has been to move my twitter-like communications to an entity which makes accessibility the default. For example - a default alt text box popping up whenever an image is posted so that a user must make a conscious decision that their image NOT be accessible, rather than the default being that it is.

Creating that kind of intentional inclusiveness is impossible when the administrators of each server is free to make whatever rules they want. The same is true for LGBT-inclusiveness,

I have no particular knowledge as to journa.host and trans-hostility, although it is an issue near and dear to my heart. After a very brief initial exploration I decided Mastadon was not capable of being a place I wanted to hang out so I never got beyond exploring the general question to thinking about individual servers. My decision to go to Post.news is largely - for reasons similar to those you have discovered - everyone doing their own thing makes it impossible to have uniform moderation, accessibility, LGBTQ-friendly, etc. policies because Mastadon isn't "A" thing, it is thousands of things (7500 servers is one estimate I've seen). As you have pointed out - sorting out which ones have policies compatible with DU would both take an enormous amount of time, and inherently serve as a DU endorsement of some.

That said, I'm glad you got the link thing figured out!