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.

@creatrixtiara I’m sorry people suck.

I chalk some/most of it up to people not liking the fact that their alternative cool-kids club is becoming mainstream, and will inevitably change somewhat because of it. It’s digital hipster-ism, and it’s immature and silly.

And frankly, they can spin off their own server and moderate however they like if it bothers them so much.