So many people are having a bad first experience with Mastodon because they're using the official app which is lacking features, doesn't allow image uploads randomly, has random slowness, and doesn't give you easy access to the two most active feeds where you can find people (Local and Federated).

Please switch to Metatext, Tusky, or Tooot for a better mobile experience (or even use a browser).

Out of the >15k users that joined this week, over 11k are on the official apps.

Something that has bothered me for a while... A lot of people use LinkTree for creating a profile with all their #socialmedia #links... The problem is #LinkTree is a data harvesting / tracker site.

Thankfully @eposvox pointed out another service to me (via his profile) today: https://bio.link/ - it's a free to use alternative, that doesn't track personal info beyond click throughs (no IP, no cookie, etc.)

It's from the Buy-Me-A-Coffee folks and looks really really good.

Normalize the understanding that someone’s mental illness is only one facet of who they are - every single one of us has so many different aspects to who we are, and to make someone’s mental illness all you see when you look at them or think about them only increases stigma in our society.

We can do better and see people as full human beings.💖🦄

#MentalHealth #MentalIllness #Facets #Normalize #Stigma #society #DeconstructStigma

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Feels like this:

You want image descriptions? "Cool. We're making that a rule."

You want this place to make sense and your TBI means it doesn't? "Here's a guide you already read & didn't understand. Can't help you. You should really learn to code. Good luck all alone."

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/karriehiggins/status/1591834494029697025

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The rush to Mastodon knowing how inaccessible it is feels *designed* to exclude certain disabled folks.

And yes, even among disability communities, where lateral ableism against cognitive and energy-limiting disabilities = rampant.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/karriehiggins/status/1591834491328372736

Warning people about Covid-19 being much worse than the media, or provinces have told us isn't fear mongering. NOT warning people about it is endangering lives. Someone who thinks it's no big deal, catches it multiple times, then dies from heart failure 6 months later?

If they'd known Covid-19 attacks your heart, and taken precautions, worn masks, got the vaccine, or the booster? They'd probably be alive.

Person living in a perpetual brain fog after coming down with long Covid after the mask mandates were lifted and they thought it was safe?

If the media and provincial messaging were that Covid-19 can infect your heart and brain, and it was still spreading rapidly, maybe that person would have thought twice before taking off their mask, kept up to date on shots and boosters, and been okay today.

Covid is going to be with us for decades - even if it goes away in 3 or 4 years, the lasting damage it caused, the disability, the reduced life spans. Children won't have parents, parents will lose children. That kind of impact sticks with you. We gambled with lives, and we lost.

Remind your friends, your family - this virus is still spreading, it's NOT mild, and even a case that feels mild can leave lasting organ damage. Don't throw away 20, 30, 40, 50 years of a healthy life so you don't have to wear a mask today. Today is important, but tomorrow?

Tomorrow isn't guaranteed. YOU need to make the effort to ensure that you have a tomorrow, and the next day. YOU get to choose. Do you care about tomorrow? next week? Next year? Do you care about your health? Your family? Covid doesn't - it'll happily ruin your life. Don't let it

#Covid19 #Pandemic #WearAMask #BeSafe #Vaccinate #Care