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 Overall, people have been helpful and welcoming, but I'm seeing some condescension creeping in from time to time. A message today telling "new Mastodon users" to not post Wordle graphics because it's accessibility insensitive as well as just generally annoying (I agree) ... well, some of us have never posted Wordle stuff to any platform. Wordle-posting thoughtlessness is not a new Mastodon user behaviour across the board.

@bookgaga @creatrixtiara

OK, that's... pretty wild. My feed was *full* of Wordle stuff when it first hit big. No one ever seemed bothered by it. Not even me, who's never played it. Lol.

I've been here awhile and IMHO anyone complaining that Wordle arrived with the latest influx of new folks is blowing smoke, big-time.