All,

The moment has finally arrived! 🥳

@McCullohMD
and I have been hard at work for the past week putting together a Mastodon instance so that we can create a backup disability and chronic illness community.

It can be found here:

https://disabled.social

For now, we have set up a terms of service, privacy policy, rules and best practices.

I have plans to set up a Twitter space to go through each of these with the disability community directly to add/subtract/reword things.

#NEISvoid

Fellow #Disabled peeps, check out this new server by and for us:

https://mastodon.social/@PanickedFoodie/109326287778497457

Please see the thread I've linked to for the full details. I'm boosting the signal, not a member of the admin team.

Don't let the invite-only hold you back if you're disabled. Chronically Ill counts, too. It's for us, not the rest of the world.

@mecfs @longcovid
@chronicillness
#HEDS #POTS #pwME #MECFS #longCOVID #MCAS #ActuallyAutistic

@PanickedFoodie

How do you make a thread on Mastodon?

Pretty much the same way as on Twitter, with one difference. You compose the first post, publish it, then reply to it, then reply to it again, and so on. But there's one difference. If the first post is Public, you can make all the others Unlisted. This way, people can follow the thread by clicking on the first post, but their timeline isn't clogged up with all of the other posts.

[A short thread]

#FediTip #help

In line with the value we place on #accessibility , and the reason we encourage people to use image descriptions -

When you're writing hashtags that are a combination of several words, please use camel case (LikeThis instead of likethis) - camel case helps screenreaders read the tag as two separate words, rather than trying to read the hashtag as one word.