Morgan on Nostr: And I just realized Jamie did this as some sort of campaign where he's obsessed with ...

And I just realized Jamie did this as some sort of campaign where he's obsessed with what he calls the "Mastodon HOA", i.e. people who ask for and depend on accessibility as a web standard. It's an extremely ableist position and I had no idea he was that aggressively against accessibility for Mastodon users.

There's a word for someone who joins a community with the full intent of pushing against the community's established way of doing things, then pretends to be butthurt when called out on it. Jamie has zero respect for the community and according to his other posts, he started this thread intentionally as a honeypot to find people to block. It's trollish behavior and absolutely not something I expected out of anyone, especially him.

HIs HOA analogy is completely flawed as well. I hate HOAs and I will never own a house or rent an apartment that has one. But a community is not an HOA; there's no board of directors here, nor a community leader; we're all a bunch of folks who have common interests and wish to have a nice place to talk about them. That community includes disabled folks, so we all work together to make it an easier place for those folks, just as we make it a welcoming place for minorities of all types, folks of all genders, and so on. When someone enters the community with the intent to troll it with honeypots like this, the community responds by banding together in support of one another. It makes it easier for him to block us, but then one wonders why even be on Mastodon at all if he hates us all so much.

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/02/on-blocking-mastodon-hoa-edition/