A lot of them are people I know in real life. And others are respected / “well known” members of the community who have significant contributions outside of twitter. Can’t tell if the 300 likes are all legit on a post with 300 likes. But I am fairly certain about 100 of those are because I genuinely know the people behind the account.
Mastodon I rarely get one or two favourites. BlueskyI get either ignored or 5-10 likes. Twitter I get anywhere from 5-multiple thousand likes, but 30-100 with maybe 2-5 quality replies is the most common range. I think issue is content is too niche and bluesky/mastodon need to grow before a significant chunk of people with my illness move there.
I wish I could leave twitter, I hate musk with a passion.
I would say looking at a specific source for the claims is way more efficient than researching the credibility of the author.
Here it turns out, it is US govt statistics, which is rather credible on housing and homelessness statistics. However I have no clue about the general credibility of medium nor this specific author.
I have a couple thousand followers on twitter but no followers on bluesky or mastodon ahahh. It’s so hard to grow them. I post my content on all three for now.
Am I the only one who is a but skeptical whenever the link is a medium blog? It’d be nice if I didn’t have to trace down the source from a blog and it was from a trustworthy source.
It’s so weird, like I was born in Australia and moved away at the age of 4 and somehow have citienship? I wasn’t born disabled but am now. The system is so weird.
Imagine though. That family lived in Australia for eight years straight, their kid was born in Australia, and they have to leave because their kid who was born in Australia has a disability. Crazy!
You won’t really know until you reach those circumstances. If you had told me before I was disabled that I would be in severe pain bedridden, unable to speak and tubefed, I would have said I’d prefer to die (but part of that is thinking this would never happen to me). Now I prefer to live my limited life, and I would never give it away.
I’m not denying some people would, I’m just saying its not something you should tell people with the illness.
and killing yourself is a lot harder than it seems when you’re disabled, unless you have a firearm
ME/CFS has a 5% recovery rate. I am as severe as Diana for a decade for example.
Please don’t say things like that. It insinuates that our lives are not worth living, when that choice is very personal, and having someone else say that can be very heartbreaking when you’re just living the best you can.
Imagine you are ill with something and someone says “you should probably go kill yourself” or “If I were in your shoes I would kill myself”….
I dunno but that website OP linked is a well known right wing propaganda “polling aggregator” that only takes pro-trump polls. I wish they had just linked the washington post article or an archive link thereof instead.
It’s a phyiscal illness