@StephTait quoted in the article above:

'“Even if you could somehow magically get all of disability Twitter to move to the same alternative social media platform, we would be siloed in a way where the rest of the world wouldn’t have to see us anymore,” Tait says. “If you push us to a site where we can find each other, but other people don’t have to see us anymore, it’s very dangerous for us because it becomes so much easier to marginalize us and to leave us behind.”'

SUCH an important point in all of this!

#NEISvoid #disabled #disability @mecfs @longcovid @chronicillness

@graeme_0 @StephTait

The possibilities are certainly there, but there are also inherent issues with the way things already work/don't work, and it's helpful to state them for those who don't see the problems bc things work for them.

Ex: Some servers are explicitly hostile to disability advocacy, or try to push people of color to instances specifically for BIPOC through the use of "helpful" comments and microaggressions, etc.

Federation can lead to segregation when misapplied, and those not impacted by it are missing what's already happening. The more people that are aware and step up as allies, the more it's possible to make the best possibilities of the fediverse realities instead of yet another failure.