hm these are not the clearest to look at, i think

i know people (me included) have criticised this site's userbase for being a self-declared queer leftist site but also containing ableists, racists, etc. but is it even possible to create a social media without those kinds of people? i think everywhere has them.

because i don't think that i, as a trans disabled welsh person, am ever going to experience an irl society free of ableism, transphobia, or discrimination against minority cultures within my lifetime. so why would the internet be any different? i don't want to sound defeatist but to be honest sometimes i feel really defeated about these things and i don't know what to do. there will always be horrible people, even horrible people who call themselves leftists, so what can we do?

i suppose if cohost had had a larger staff/moderation team then it would'vr been easier to combat bigots, but i don't think they ever got near enough money to hire a bigger team. volunteer moderators perhaps?? i think there would have been a lot of people happy to help volunteer to work on some aspect of cohost, since so many people here seem to be into web/tech stuff and also have a big interest in this site thriving.

i don't really understand anything about running social media though.

even on a self-proclaimed leftist website people do not care about your disabilities and trauma if it effects them even in the slightest smallest way. they will not tag their typing quirks, they will not tag their fast moving/flashing gifs, they will not tag their incest jokes, they will not tag their kink art depicting assault. even when asked. multiple times.

even in leftist spaces, people find it hard to care about disabled and traumatised people.

society if cumbric still existed. or if we at least had extant texts of it enough to learn it.

i just want another celtic language to learn, man 😔 some of the writings of taliesin and aneirin were presumably originally in cumbric, but we just don't have the original manuscripts today and no way to learn or even reconstruct the language at all 😔