so we know how the comments threads look now, right? like this:

they're great and i love them, but if i may suggest a minor improvement: make it gay.

that's all thanks bye.

and i think it’s interesting how consumable it is. idk all the stuff i’ve read about it tends to have one main takeaway, which is that ai art just isn’t very deep. you can’t really gleam more from it than it presents on the surface. a lot of the writers discuss how even the most evocative ai art simply elicits an “oh that’s really interesting” and then is unable to offer much more than that. idk this’ll prolly become a bigger thing cos i have more to say about this, but for now i’m doing more reading

i’m now learning toki pona. why do i do this to myself

okay so thanks to the power of @blep’s Prechoster, i’ve decided to introduce threads in cohost! yep! they’re here now! sorry @staff i already did it for you :P

I'm gonna be honest, I'm not a particularly huge fan of people doing fancy text like this:

𝒪𝑜𝑜𝒽 𝓁𝑜𝑜𝓀 𝒶𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒻𝒶𝓃𝒸𝓎 𝓉𝑒𝓍𝓉 𝒶𝓇𝑒𝓃'𝓉 𝐼 𝓈𝑜 𝒻𝒶𝓃𝒸𝓎 Oooh look at this fancy text aren't I so fancy

Or some, like, homestuck typing quirk-ass text like this:

GC: OBJ3CT1ON!!! GC: Objection!!!

I think it's hard to read, it's hard to make sense of, and honestly I think it's also kinda annoying. But, I understand that for some people, it's how they want to (or need to) express themselves. And as someone who's a bit of a big fan of accessibility, I'd like to give people the choice to do what they want, but in a way that's not going to completely heck over people using screen readers.

So, I'd like introduce Accessible fancy text 🎉!!!

Below is a snippet you can use in your cohost posts (chosts) to make sure that if you use fancy text (which I wouldn't recommend using in general but still), it'll still be readable to screen readers. Below the fold is a writeup about it that goes into more detail.

The Snippet

<!-- use div, p, span, whatever works here -->
<div aria-describedby="user-content-id-name">
	<span aria-hidden="true"> <!-- Put your stuff here! --> </span>
	<span id="id-name" style="clip: rect(0 0 0 0); clip-path: inset(50%); height: 1px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; white-space: nowrap; width: 1px;">Rewrite the stuff but in human-readable text</span>
</div>

It also works 𝓲𝓷𝓵𝓲𝓷𝓮 inline too!