Second post
Nov. 10th, 2024 01:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
discodeerdiaryTrue to my predictions, I did experience a minor hassle getting my first post published. Turns out I never verified my email and Dreamwidth was not happy about that. So then I had to find the old verification email, click the link, get told that the link had expired, ask Dreamwidth to send me a new email, wait for the email to come in, click the verification link in the new email, and then hit the post button.
I'm saying all this not to complain but just to illustrate that every new platform you set up an account on has its own hiccups. I think it's good to sign up for new platforms as the old ones die (like Cohost) or turn evil (like Twitter), the process of signing up for new platforms is a task that we trivialize at our own peril. If we pretend it's easy, then we unnecessarily discourage people who are not techy, or who are facing barriers we don't know about (maybe they only have access to a library computer, maybe they're doing everything through their phone). And then we miss out on the diversity of voices that our online communities *could* be supporting.
Anyways, I'm here. I'm posting. It's less scary than I thought.
I'm saying all this not to complain but just to illustrate that every new platform you set up an account on has its own hiccups. I think it's good to sign up for new platforms as the old ones die (like Cohost) or turn evil (like Twitter), the process of signing up for new platforms is a task that we trivialize at our own peril. If we pretend it's easy, then we unnecessarily discourage people who are not techy, or who are facing barriers we don't know about (maybe they only have access to a library computer, maybe they're doing everything through their phone). And then we miss out on the diversity of voices that our online communities *could* be supporting.
Anyways, I'm here. I'm posting. It's less scary than I thought.
