@NMaDayton hey there! I tick a buncha those boxes! :)
How's your day been?
@starless great to meet you! Stressful, honestly - it’s an interesting time to work in tech right now, and seeing Twitter fall apart from the perspective of “oh no, my friends!” meaning 1. old college friends 2. professional colleagues and 3. Disability Twitter disappearing has been rough. Starting to get used to Mastodon, though! What have been your thoughts on it so far?
@NMaDayton that does sound really stressful.
I migrated over here about a year or two ago, back when more things weren't really happening. At the time, leaving traditional social media felt like I wasn't really missing out on as much, since I wasn't going to events in person.
When I switched to an account here, it was via an invite from a netfriend who I'd known off a chat tech called Matrix. It's a bit like a federated "Discord" kind of an experience.
Lately, it's been fun, but kind of stressful to see so much more activity and vibrancy in the "netborhood" so to speak. I'm happy to see more local instances spinning up.
I used Twitter occasionally professionally, but honestly, it was pretty rare. Part of me is glad for an increase in the ephemerality of online socialization that comes with all this, but another part of me feels like there is a real need for a "reasonably stable phone book", and I am sad that something vaguely reassembling that got looted.
@NMaDayton I uh. I don't hear normally, but I didn't know Twitter's disability community. So I might not say "the whole disability community". But I entirely agree with the sentiment. I hope the influx will be good for the disability folks that have been here for a minute.
What kinds of tech things do you enjoy working with/doing? I usually program in c# for work these days, but I enjoy making little python projects that print things. :)
@starless so wonderful to hear from someone who’s been here a while, thank you for sharing what it’s been like for you! Sorry you’re dealing with this rough migration period. Personally I never loved discord due to needing to switch between so many different servers for my interests, but I do see the parallels you’re talking about. I really feel like losing Twitter is losing my address book, it’s so sad for the whole disability community. Here’s to rebuilding!