KarinWanderer

I wanted to use this place to build a community, to start art challenges people would enjoy participating in, to talk about art with people who love it... Then Reddit announced they didn't care about the accessibility or moderation that makes spaces like this liveable.

Months later, Reddit still ignores Blind users' needs. Spez is so deluded he wants to be like Musk, which he said long after Twitter started hemorrhaging money. So, fine. I will be reopening this sub in a limited mode, & using Reddit promote the communities I am building/ the work I am doing elsewhere.

Find Me!

Every single day on Ko-Fi & Mastodon

Frequently on Bluesky & IG

Weekly art blog & a YouTube channel

I recently opened a Shop, where you can buy my art on mugs, notebooks, & vinyl stickers!

If you haven't been keeping up since I stopped posting my art on Reddit, you've missed a lot!

... And we will continue to be locked down. /r/Blind cannot be modded by Blind people anymore, because in nuking 3rd party apps Reddit has removed accessibility for users with disabilities & neglected to replace them- the official app does not have accessible mod interface for people who use screen readers!

Reddit has been removing mod teams who protest & replacing them with scabs, or no one at all- leaving unmodded subs to fill with spam & abuse. For more information, see the other posts in this sub- I replaced a lot of the information about this that was inadvertently deleted when I wiped all my art off this site.

Mastodon is great! Don't bother with .social though, take a moment to find a server that is more tailored to your interests. (This page can sort servers by topic) For example, I'm on mastodon.Art. You can join more than one server, but I recommend just starting with one.

I was really hoping Reddit would stop being so selfish, but here we are a week into July & they are still, if you'll pardon my accuracy, shitting the bed. Remember when they said this would all be solved by 1 July? Check my other 2 posts for a longer breakdown, but TL;DR:

After almost 20 years of Reddit not bothering to do anything to aid accessibility for people with disabilities, they decided to charge astronomical prices to apps that, for example, made it possible for people who are blind to use Reddit. We had to blackout Reddit in protest just to get them to admit people with disabilities deserve to use the site. Since then, they have said the bare minimum of nice words but not followed up with actions. Here is what /r/Blind thinks of Reddit's work so far (Hint, the title is "They finally did it: Reddit made it impossible for blind Redditors to moderate their own sub")

Reddit has also started removing mods who protest. They are replacing them with scabs or just leaving the subreddits unmoderated. They only care about ad revenue, not making Reddit a good place to be.

I am on Ko-Fi, where I post daily.

I am on Mastodon, where I post daily.

I have a blog called Karin Wanderer Learns, which comes out every Tuesday.

Mastodon is a great place to be. I'd advise avoiding mastodon.social though- it's a bit like always browsing on r/ all. Here is a site that helps you break down the server list by topic of interest- check it out! Then let me know which one you picked