Y'all,
If you want more marginalized folks to migrate here, please be more willing to share mutual aid asks and links to their shops or newsletters, as their finances often depend on it. Twitter gave them a chance to promote it, and for disabled folks in particular, we often rely on mutual aid support.
State governments are often horrifically draconian and oppressive for us, where the services that are offered to us are lacking and often useless. Disabled folks do not get enough disability benefits for survival. If you want to make it more welcoming for us, then be willing to aid us in mutual aid work.
But instead of aid, I've seen folks here be actively hostile to sharing or posting ANY requests for mutual aid or links to shops. Some report it thus causing more harm. This "no promotion" attitude is a really privileged and harmful take.
More folks would migrate IF they can safely rebuild what they're losing from Twitter. Demanding purity tests and not accounting for the complex nuances of those still on Twitter isn't helping. We need to build a more nuanced and accepting environment for those that rely on mutual aid for survival.
Community building isn't only talking and sharing stories. It's also building resources and spaces for folks to find and get what they need to thrive. This includes monetary support as well as building up sharing libraries. Let's build that here too, ok?
#mastodon #TwitterMigration #disabled @disabilityjustice #MutualAid #welcoming
Manqueman
The Bird
Anna