Thread by @MonaAndChat

This platform is an example of why social media is both the lifeblood and a hazard for disabled people. As a disabled person, social media has been my primary way of earning income for years, as I managed to amass an audience interested in my takes about things ranging from 1/n

polyamory, politics, religion, wrestling, Star Trek, comedy, video games, and more. Moreover, I got to use my platform to educate others on disability issues, Trans and Queer Rights, and of course polyamory. I never made a huge living from it, but it kept me afloat. 2/n

However, with the purchase of this platform by a certain billionaire who immediately went about changing the algorithm to promote content from his Far Right cronies, all my views dried up. I went from being viewed millions of times a month to around 50,000 times, if I'm lucky.3/n

Needless to say, this caused my income to drop to next to nothing. Not because my content changed, not because it suddenly got worse. But because no one was being shown my content. I am not the only disabled person this has happened to. For so many of us, our source of both 4/n

community and income died, over night, and we've been drifting along since then, trying our best to keep our heads above water.

Of course, naysayers and so-called "experts" will say this is why you have to diversify your content across multiple platforms, but 1) it's very 5/n

ableist to assume that a disabled person has the physical capability of doing that. Maintaining multiple social media accounts and paying attention to things like metrics is a full time job. That's why people are literally paid to do that for large creators. 6/n

And 2) all the major platforms are owned by Far Right billionaires or groups now. The same people who will claim "freedom of speech" and then actively suppress their opposers. 7/n

I will be surprised if this thread gets picked up in the algorithm. It probably won't. But I had to get this off my chest. I know I'm not the only one experiencing this. It sucks. 8/8