Thank you very much, added! 🙏
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@FediTips The list doesn't have #WortsUpDoc for posts with liverworts, hornworts, or other bryophytes. :'(
@FediTips great list! I'm definitely going to use that Waterfall Wednesday one today
@FediTips thanks for this list.
I like # MeerMittwoch - sea views on Wednesday
And
# MarshMadness -wetland photos
@FediTips they don't have to be short and snappy e.g. #MisreplacedAccessChamberCovers AccessChamberCovers
@FediTips Thanks for the list ! Could you maybe add #FediHire as well ? It seems to be used quite a bit on its own without its #GetFediHired cousin.
@FediTips Please tell me you're using CamelCase format for tags? It's so screen readers pronounce individual words rather than smashing all the text as if it was one word and mangling the pronunciation.
It's also easier for sighted ppl to read. A longish phrase that isn't in CamelCase is sometimes too overwhelming or time consuming to figure out and I skip over the post.
Such a helpful list, thanks for doing this.
Yes, of course!
I also urge people to use CamelCase in the website's guides related to hashtags.
Didn't see ThreeGoodThings - individuals posting 3 positive things from their day
Also the daily games - Rogule, Tradle, Worldle, Wordle, CluesBySam, etc
@FediTips no love for the fursuitfriday hashtag?
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#FairTradeMusicFriday spikes every Bandcamp Friday. It is to promote music on Bandcamp alternatives such as #Faircamp and Mirlo (and others) that treat artists better than Bandcamp.
Thanks for this, I was wondering what the situation was!
@FediTips this is very cool
and i hope my #ThisIsSoStupidButItMadeMeLaugh is easy to understand, even if it only tickles my funny bone
@FediTips Nice. I have wanted this list for ages!
A couple ND inclusive suggestions:
-ActuallyAutistic – The *author* of the post with this hashtag is autistic (self-id is fine, it's not about gatekeeping autism). Not meant to be used by parents or caregivers to describe autistic people, even if they really really feel they should be able to. Protip: use like a signature, not an adjective describing someone, to make it easier to guess if you're using it to identify yourself or misusing it. OK, it's a really badly named hashtag but it's what we're stuck with.
-Autistic – The correct way to describe an autistic person if you want to use a hashtag as an adjective.
-AskingAutistics – How to ask an autistic person a question about autism. Not to be used to get info on a random topic like autism is a public help desk.
@FediTips @joshsusser Autistic person here - you may want to remove the ActuallyAutistic one from the list. It is, in my experience, mainly used by people to exclude those of us who are autistic but don't "perform autism" in the "right way" and so are excluded or told our experience and knowledge isn't valid. Gatekeeping, in other words, rather than community building.
And yes, I was diagnosed in the early 90s and used in a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. No self-diagnosis here. (Not that a person can't self-diagnose; just noting that I did not.)
Edit for an example: I present with severe sensory issues, emotional bluntness, interest fixation, and mild stimming - mainly rocking back and forth when anxious. This is, in some circles, not an autistic set of traits even though it fits diagnostic and social criteria. The circles that are the fastest to reject me are the same ones who use "ActuallyAutistic" because it's a nonstandard presentation compared to what they claim autism is. (It's not a spectrum; it's more like a compass rose type thing, at least that's how I see it.)
@arthfach @FediTips I'm sorry you had that experience, but it is completely counter to my own experience. I have never seen it used as gatekeeping autism, and in fact I see people go out of their way to oppose that kind of gatekeeping. The only gatekeeping I have seen with this tag is over using the tag itself, with autistic folk asking allistic parents to stop using it to talk about their kids.
Hell of a thing, replying to my suggestion to add this tag with a suggestion to remove it like I'm not right here. Sheesh!
@joshsusser @FediTips To address your last comment first: I replied to this chain, rather than separately posting a reply, for this exact reason. If you have information counter to mine, I wanted you to know that your suggestion was opposed so that you could have the chance to go, "Wait, no, that's not right." I happen to hate when people try to argue against me in a way that's exclusionary and I don't like doing it to other people when I can avoid it.
It is clear that we have had two very, very different experiences when dealing with people using the tag. It may be worth exploring alternatives to it altogether (for example, using your own explanation for its purpose, something like AutisticPoster or AutisticSpeaker) since - at least to me - it is clear that it has been poisoned to some level by people using it as a gatekeeping device. I AM glad that you have NOT had that experience yourself; it is absolutely horrible and demoralizing to be shunned by what is supposed to be your own community because you present differently than whatever the expectation of the moment is and I hope that you never have to deal with that sort of behavior. And if you have elsewhere, I am sorry you have - at the end of the day, regardless of tags or disagreements, we're autistic and our voices should be heard and respected regardless.
What tag should I list to avoid causing exclusion?
