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Creatrix Tiara Nov 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.

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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

@creatrixtiara thank you for this. I've seen some of these, and called them out.

OTOH, I did also make a short thread about how a bunch of people seem to think they are entitled to fedi being "Twitter without Musk", and how their hot-takes seem to be more about justifying why they don't want to try fedi out — and how grating this is to people who have to engage with them.

I think there is a way to talk about that without the superiority.