fastfinge 1 points 7y ago
I deeply disagree. I never liked custom platforms like blinknation, Klango, The Zone, and so-on. I find my most valuable interactions tend to come from places not meant specifically for the blind, but where blind people developed groups and a large population anyway. Audioboo, before they turned it into audioboom and ruined everything forever, was one of those places. Something about being on a popular, well maintained platform, where sighted people could pop in if they liked, or ignore us if they wanted, seems to promote much more value in my mind. Maybe it's because these places tend to draw in blind people from outside the blind subculture, so we get more of a variety of people. If I can toot our own horn for a minute, I find /r/blind is a near perfect platform for exactly the kind of interaction I want. Most of the people who post here are involved in other subs on Reddit, not just this one. We get interested sighted folk popping in and out regularly. So we have a huge variety of topics here, with input from people in all walks of blindness, and all walks of life. The sort of people who go out of there way to sign up for Klango or Blinknation tend, honestly, to be the kind of people I don't find particularly interesting. I'm not insulting you or anything, I'm sure you're an interesting person. I'm just speaking on average. And anyway, you're here, aren't you? And even people who would rather just talk to other blind people all day...I have nothing against them, and I don't think they're bad people. I'm just not interested in talking to them.