Thom reviews Foto, a new Instagram alternative, noting you can’t add alt text to its images. Quite rightly, this makes it a non-starter, despite its no-ad, no-VC funding approach. This is frustrating as we want to support new, independent services that allow us to ditch the Instagrams of this world. Being the “unfortunately, this isn’t great” guy or the guy-who-doesn’t-need-alt-text-but-calls-you-out-for-it is no fun. While a few rough edges and a lack of comparable features in a ne...| This day’s portion – Posts
I got needlessly annoyed and self-righteous over a couple of recent articles in the MSM gushing over the punk-ness and old school blogging feel of Substack. 700 words into a blog response later and the familiar feelings of self-doubt started to creep in. What point are you making?Stop being so fucking pompous! and Who cares? – that sort of thing. That post was scrapped. (I don’t even like punk music, to be honest. I mean, Holidays in the Sun is a good song and I guess the Clash are alrigh...| This day’s portion – Posts