Some of drama on Reddit will calm down
I hope it does so soon. I wish them the best and hope that they can all get back to doing what they enjoy most.
NoConfigence2192
joined 1 year ago
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!
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.
Old conversation but am going to play anyway.
Most used to least used from left to right
- Canes: 1 rigid, 1 folding
- Windows, Android, Mac, Linux
- NVDA/JAWS/Narrator, VoiceOver, Orca, TalkBack
- Learning read braille on paper and use braille on screen keyboard on Android
When I am working I work with computers of multiple types. If I do not keep in practice with all of them I lose track of the keybard shortcuts and gestures I need to do things with them.
Cane. Which, now that I think about it, most sighted people I know think is stupid. They all seem to think that there’s tiny portable magic radar, sonar, infrared, VR stuff that’s widely available and actually works.
Over the course of my life I have had the chance to support a lot of tech, including a couple of medical prototypes that were supposed to have that kind of magic. Yet after my vision loss it was what amounted to a long white stick that had the most beneficial affects on my life. Sometimes low tech is the best tech.
what were your results?
They have been pretty positive. I will need to practice more to help learn the quirks but am really enjoying it so far. It really helps me that markdown support seems to be the default.
Life events kept me almost completely away from the Internet, let alone Read It (intentionally misspelled), for a few months. When I was able to come back (on June 16th) the first place I tried to go was r/Blind only to find it, along with a lot of other subs dark.
A simple search told me what was going on and the spezanotor's responses over the following days failed to inspire confidence that things would get better (to be fair I rarely have confidence in the Powers That Be, whoever they may be...it is in my name for a reason after all) so my own account went dark and I started looking for alternatives. I was just starting to think I was going to have to build something myself when I found what you all were putting together here (thankfully, because anything I build tends to be utilitarian and ugly).
Your post is exactly why I am here and my Reddit account remains dark.
BTW: Thank you for linking the web archive (wayback machine) snapshot of the original post. With the way Read It has been doing things there's no telling how long the original will be allowed to remain.
Thank you. Will give it a look over the next several days