To be clear, when i say “autistic social network” what i mean is a platform commonly confortable and safe for autistic people.
i know autism is an spectrum and what aply for most people here doesn’t aply for all
Ignore the image, i didn’t knew what to upload
Lemmy, used to say Reddit, but many of us have moved to Lemmy over the years.
This sub. I may be biased.
Lemmy in general. All discussion happens in neat forum categories with moderators - they can be closed if off-topic, so the rules are enforced (should be). No fuzzy hashtags. Simple, non distracting interface.
It made sence to me
I don’t know if the answer is a specific platform or a type of community on that platform. I have found different Lemmy pretty good in some cases and absolute shite in others. I think the key is finding somewhere where people give each other grace and treat each other like humans.
Places with narrow scope are generally pretty okay, because people are focusing on that topic and you are with “your people” so folks are more likely to give you the benefit of the doubt if you are sloppy with wording.
I also find luck with groups committed to abolition or alternative conflict resolution because people are not treated as disposable.
I block people on here pretty freely but I don’t see myself as an individual blocking another individual as the same thing as piling on to someone or the kind of posts you see in drama communities. Just like I don’t want to talk to people who grind me gears irl, I don’t really want to see posts that make me angry in my online communities.
tumblr.
But having an actual opinion on this question would mean I’d have to try a bunch of social media sites and I don’t.
I haven’t used tumblr since before yahoo bought it but I remember people being out for blood when someone says something problematic.
I’m not defending problematic opinions, but it didn’t feel like people were given the benefit of the doubt or the opportunity to explain what they meant and maybe learn about ways to phrase things so that they are better understood by that audience.
Otherwise, it was def a great place to be freely weird and niche!
Yeah they were trying to protect their space so they continued to have a place for weird and outside the norm discussions, art, posts, but probably went a bit too far and made it toxic in an effort to avoid toxicity. Tale as old as tribalism.
