Ok, so, as you might be able to tell from my picture, I'm a mayo fella. I've been reading stuff over on mastodon (I'm running both, some friends have chosen there). How is CoSo for people who aren't mayo and cis and male? Like some of the instances over there seem to be having a pretty shit reaction to new folks who are not .. you know, me or me-like.
@Camerondotca i feel like mayo is code for something here?
i think of mayo as a possible condiment for sandwiches. what are you talking about?
@singlemaltgirl I'm white. Very very white. Like mayo. I moisturise, so I'm not aging like mayo in the sun.
The opposite.
People who are not white, cis het males are finding it unwelcoming.
@Shelter @singlemaltgirl @Camerondotca That has not been my experience. In fact, I'm finding a large community of autistic women - including a few who are late-diagnosed and older than me!
@researchbuzz @Shelter @singlemaltgirl I have not, to be fair, heard anything negative from neurodivergent folks, or at least not folks having issues for being neurodivergent.
@Shelter @singlemaltgirl Aye. I'm hearing transfolks aren't having a great time either on some instances. I'm on a NZ instance because a lot of friends are there and I fit in as honorary Aotearoan, so it's pretty small and chill. A friend who is super progressive also runs an instance, if I get annoyed where I am, I'll move there.. There is also a local punk one.
@Shelter @singlemaltgirl the local punk one seems to be full anarchist/antifa and will nuke shit from orbit if it even starts looking stupid.
If I could make a suggestion that you separate as "trans folks?"
Trans is an adjective, and it's preferred.
Otherwise it's like reading, "Largevehicle."
@Shelter @singlemaltgirl yeah, I don't know how that happened. I've never written it that way before. But yes. Point taken.
@Shelter @singlemaltgirl No, thank you.
@singlemaltgirl no, Mastodon is having issues with people who aren't like me. There have been some folks banned this week/weekend for having discussing racism and other stuff.
@Camerondotca uh oh. i wish i could say that's surprising. but i've found lots of sm spaces are not great for bipoc, 2slgbtq+, disabled, etc. folks. may explain why i've never been big on sm. i did the blue bird site for a bit for not like i do coso. & linkedin for work. that's about it.
that's unfortunate.
@Camerondotca you know what? i got that after i posted. doh!
in my defense, it's morning & i don't drink coffee.
so what you're saying is mastodon doesn't like white cis het males? how so?