Creatrix TiaraNov 7, 2022

Hey folk - making fun of people who find Mastodon difficult and claiming that it "weeds out anyone too stupid to use Mastodon" or "they're too attached to Twitter so their opinion of Mastodon is suspicious" is really not the move.

Firstly, this was the kind of rhetoric that got me infamously racially harassed my first few hours on Mastodon back when it was super new.

Mainly though - it's unneeded superiority, it's ignoring very valid accessibility concerns, and it's just straight up exclusionary.

Show threadRaineer  ðŸ¦†

@creatrixtiara Don't do this. This is horseshit.

Help your fellow netizens, don't build walls.

Nov 7, 2022 at 7:27pmWeb
Show threadCreatrix TiaraNov 7, 2022
@raineer are you saying I'm being horseshit or are you referring to the people I'm talking about?
Show threadRaineer  ðŸ¦†Nov 7, 2022

@creatrixtiara sorry!! the people you are talking about. We need to be welcoming.

As the resident nerds of the internet, I think it's up to us to understand and acknowledge that Mastodon is actually different than what most are used to - and then do what we can to help them into the fold.