@weirdwriter I had the same experience but because they’re the first group of individuals I found that did alt text without accusing me of faking blindness when I’m using a computer, didn’t tell me to use my eyes when I ask what the picture is (regardless of whether an explanation is present or not), blocked me, accused me of harboring classist racist, insane, retarded, etc., made me feel guilty for asking to access that everyone else at had, made me feel small and unworthy of life when I became fed up and treated someone harshly after asking and asking and asking without getting results, made hurt because I thought we had a friendship until the first difficult conversation came up,when they sent someone else to represent them, made me feel not worthy of the chance to grow and flourish and grow when I asked the representative what I could do differently to make that friend more more comfortable approaching me they declined to answer, pinned me against a wall and told me to stay away from their children because I’d never be a provider and they don’t want retarded babies besides, asked the person next to me what I wanted/needed/was able do, gave me bad/incomplete directions and an infinite doom scroll of other anxiety causing behaviors (for some of these this is an extremely generous interpretation) for which I am, over the course of my 36 years long history on Spaceship Earth been forgiving, …
I knew that along as the software continued to be current and function in a way that didn’t compromise the developers’ core values and culture, it would one day the new mass-adopted new blind Twitter one day.
Within just the blindness community, we collectively have the technical skills to run a servers. We also have the diplomacy to deal with a lot of our issues concerning conduct in a way that fits us better than those actualized by sighted people. And Mastodon still has even now a persistent culture that makes it so when we do with the sighted community, we are less likely to rue the day.