twitch of twitch.cymru

umm sneak preview of my work-in-progress celtic languages webring page?? this page format does not work great on mobile, and also i know my site button image isn't working there, it's because i still haven't made one for my celtic languages site yet

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

these two are 2 years old, and the plain pink and black one was my first 88x31 site button and it's definitely my least favourite. probably the second one here is the clearest to read out of all of them.

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.