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 well said! 🙏  

Let me just also add to this, that blanketing everyone who is into #blockchain as "cryptobros" equally fills me with disdain.

I work in that industry and have never shilled anything here--that's not what most of us are about.

I'm sure many other folks are in this awkward situation.

@arfonzo ehhhhhhh I am zero percent a fan of anything to do with blockchains so unfortunately i'm not the best source of sympathy in that regard

@creatrixtiara hahaha--no worries! I wasn't asking for sympathy. I love that in the #fediverse, we should (in THEORY), be able to respectfully agree to disagree on anything.  

In that vein, I would prefer people to judge me as an individual: based on how I have interacted with them, not which currency I prefer to use.

I do agree 100% with your post though, and am sorry you were harassed for that, back in the day.

@arfonzo that's fair! thanks for understanding :)