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in reply to @atomheart's post:
I found what I believe to be patient zero and their post was very bad and I don't really want to link it but it really did say things like "yingletspeak is a disability/accessibility issue"
it generally seemed to be a complaint about how some of their favorite accounts on here had transitioned to part time yingletspeak, and they claimed that it gave them migraines to try to read yingletspeak. this leads to "I can't just ignore it" and "I can't just block them, I enjoy following them". I suspect there was also an unspoken "I don't actually know them so I don't know how to tell them it upsets me or ask them to stop"
anyway the post also includes the classic 1-2 of "I can't believe you all didn't like my complaint, cohost has chased another disabled person off their site" followed by weeks of followup posting cheering on the people who agree with them
you do realize the community here is small enough that i can just, like, see this, right?
when i say i feel i was chased off of the site, what i mean by that is just the sheer unpersoning that happened because of the discourse. i'm "patient zero" to you. you're talking about me as if you are isolated from me and i don't share the same space with you. my feed turned into hundreds of posts like this comment, even from friends and mutuals who i guess thought i wouldn't see it. and they'd all refuse to even mention my name to grant themselves immunity or something, while implying all sorts of things about the discourse that i didn't even say at all (such as the migraine thing; i never said that, you're conflating me with someone else. i'm right here, you could've just checked...). as if i'm some kind of leper to them instead of a real person with actual needs.
everyone talks about me now like i'm some crazy person they're observing from afar, as if i'm not literally just right here. it feels really disconnected. it just feels like it establishes that there's an ingroup and i don't get to be a part of it. seeing hundreds of posts like that has been extremely demoralizing and it absolutely makes me want to use cohost less. like, if my accessibility request gets met with all the people on this website resorting to playground tier bullying, why should i want to be here?
Yeah, there's one inveterate shit-stirrer who seems to be the epicenter -- I love not being able to see follows and etc., but I do wish there was a "block this person and everyone within a degree or two of them" button so I could also automatically block everyone who engages with inveterate shit-stirrers. Like, a sort of contagious block. I'd also be enthused to have a "silence everyone at least 2 of my mutuals have blocked" feature or something to get herd immunity against people who have a 5+ year internet career in quasi-leftist outrage, since apparently the same cheap bag of rhetorical tricks just keeps on finding new suckers
I posted about it today because of one person i followed (and now don’t) reposting/replying to a few posts, to be clear lol. Not sure that there’s that many people talking about it and def don’t want to give that impression. And definitely hope I’m not reviving the discourse inadvertently 🙂↕️
