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 it's such a weird attitude (though I've seen it in many places and times). Like, what's wrong with instead asking "what are you finding hard? Can I help, or point you somewhere for help?"

@creatrixtiara

I'm sorry people were a-holes to you. That sucks.

@trib

This is a good attitude to have. Though for the record, I met more hostile people on Twitter regarding tech/usage questions than I've met here when I ask them.