This is what happens when #disabled people kindly take on labor to share what type of post formats make things easier & harder for them to navigate Mastodon. :(
No one listens to disabled people.
P.S. Literally no one called OP an "ableist" anywhere, or even assumed bad faith.
#disabledsupport #DisabledMigration #disabilitymstdn #disabilityactivists #disabilitydiscrimination #disabledlivesmatter #DisabledFriendly
me: idk why Twitter is the most accessible social media platform for me, it just works for my brain
me, after spending several days trying out other platforms: ah, the character limit stops people from writing walls of text
and encourages using paragraph breaks mid sentence, for ⬆️ readability
that's probably at least 40% of why Twitter is so much more accessible for me
I have multiple friends who are barely surviving via mutual aid funds on Twitter
who find other social media platforms inaccessible
just because things like "learning how to use a new thing is really hard when your brain can't process new things" (eg from ME, or Long COVID)
so idk, I am not particularly reassured by posts telling folks that "everything will be ok" and "it just takes time to learn to use mastodon"
it just feels... condescending. invalidating.
@brewingcontemplations 👋 Present!! You might find more using #DisabilityMigration and #DisabledMigration ; there are many graduate students in a Twitter community called 'disabled folks' that I'm in, and I recently encouraged people to use those hashtags to connect over here.
A fascinating phenomenon related to building a local online culture like mastoson: I lead a guild in #WorldOfWarcraft and sometimes to fill your group appropriately you need to open your parties/raids to random people across the world. WoW can be an incredibly toxic place (you would be surprised what grown adults act like behind a cute elf avatar), but my guild exists solely to counter that. I set things up so that before people are let into the Discord (for coordination on boss fights) they have to pause, read, and agree to a simple rule, rule #1: don't be an asshole. (Or else Britt will kick you out immediately).There are other rules, but that is the most important one.
At first I thought it wouldn't do anything to temper the toxicity, but it really has largely prevented people from behaving badly! Over the past year we've cultivated a group that is diverse and, more importantly, feels safe hanging out in our little chunk of this video game. People stick around and they consistently come back. Our guild has far more women and LGBTQIA+ people feeling safe to use voice chat than I've ever seen in WoW.
I think this clearly established community standard is present in many mastodon servers and I think it too will prevent many people from behaving badly. I'm very hopeful about this place even though I don't know quite how to use it yet!
#TwitterMigration
#NeuroMigration
#DisabledMigration
#NeuroscienceMigration
