Vanessa Angélica VillarrealPost-pandemic, so many of us have become more isolated, lonely, nearly friendless. Twitter was and is crucial for alleviating that loneliness, and I worry about what will happen to people, including myself, who are losing this as not only a place of connection, but a commons.
And before you say Mastodon is a commons, no it isn't. You cannot just search and find people on Mastodon if they are on other instances. People on other instances are invisible to you.
Yilin Wang (she/they)@vanessid i'm feeling some of this too, and i think it disproportionately affects BIPOC, queer, and marginalized folks who have built up Twitter communities deliberately