Blind Main
The main community at rblind.com, for discussion of all things blindness.
You can find the rules for this community, and all other communities we run, here: https://ourblind.com/comunity-guidelines/ Lemmy specifics: By participating on the rblind.com Lemmy server, you are able to participate on other communities not run, controlled, or hosted by us. When doing so, you are expected to abide by all of the rules of those communities, in edition to also following the rules linked above. Should the rules of another community conflict with our rules, so long as you are participating from the rblind.com website, our rules take priority. Should we receive complaints from other instances or communities that you are repeatedly, knowingly, and maliciously breaking there rules, we may take moderator action against you, even if your posts comply with all of the rblind.com rules linked above.
view the rest of the comments
We will see what happens. Reddit is hard to let go especially for people in othe r/Blind community that fills a very real need. Plus they have been making a lot of cosmetic changes that may help appease some people and bring them back into the fold. Between that very real need we were filling and those cosmetic changes some of us are very likely to be drawn back in.
As for me, a short visit there yesterday proved to me that I cannot allow myself to go back. The r/Blind subreddit was what brought me to that site in the first place and was the one community I was a part of there that was largely resistant to the toxicity so prevalent through the rest of the site. Yesterday's visit was heartbreaking, showing me how much the toxicity of the rest of the site had infiltrated r/Blind...and even so, the urge to dive back in was very strong. I felt like a recovering gambling addict walking into a casino for the first time since giving it up. I just cannot afford to go back to that.
While I hope that we will all continue to be a part of building something new, and hopefully better, we will have to see how may of us resist reddit's siren call.
The need in the fediverse is at least as strong as the need r/Blind on reddit. I cannot imagine that building up this community will take any less time and effort than building up r/Blind on reddit originally did bit it should prove well worth it in the end.
A note to the admins and mods of rBlind.com and its communities:
Thank you for getting this started and providing a community for those of us with no place at reddit can support one another in our blindness and our visual impairments.
@NoConfigence2192 @Thedogspaw Has there been a head count of users over here? Hi from Hometown BTW @main
A hearty hello back to hometown
No real clue about head counts. Am still new enough to the fediverse that I am still working out how to do some things. For example, I can do most of my text formatting using markdown but have yet to figure out how to get mentions like @weirdwriter@tweesecake.social to work.
I can say it has been quieter than I like over the past few days but am hoping that will turn around over time. Will just keep posting, commenting, and learning how things work in the mean time.
Thank you again and remember to take time out to enjoy the day!
@NoConfigence2192 For what it’s worth the mention worked. I don’t know why Lemmy tells users to mention others with an exclamation mark Because that doesn’t register for those of us that are using Mastodon interfaces. What works for us is when you use the at symbol before usernames, so like this. @user@FullInstanceName so like @main