• elscallr@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I get what you’re saying but I’m not sure I agree. I’m able to sign up, obviously, but I’m also pretty much neurotypical. I don’t think we should put up what are effectively artificial (or at least neglectfully ill-designed) hurdles for people who aren’t.

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      There’s a pretty large chunk of people in tech circles like this that really delight in a superiority complex about how much smarter they are than the common rabble, and it’s more than a little off-putting.

      Least of all because it reminds me of myself as the most insufferable kind of edgelord that I was back in high school.

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        It’s because none of it is actually that hard, it’s a matter of putting the effort forth. If you’re not willing to put even that bit of effort into it, the content you generate is probably not going to be of high quality anyway.

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          Sometimes it’s not a question of “willing” but “able”. I’m just mildly neurodivergent but I still had to put an amount of cognitive energy into understanding the fediverse that I just wouldn’t have had available if I wasn’t on disability and not working.

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        Ok call me arrogant but I’ve had enough of what you call common rabble.

        I’ve read my share of common places, hidden racism, zero value content, “I’ve done my research and 5g gives you covid”, and all that.

        Not that a more educated community is always immune to that, but if the 10 minutes worth of googling are enough of a hurdle to keep the soccer mums away I’m ok with that.