Well, first I would say that I am not in "the blind community."
Naturally, I belong to some communities that include or are specific to
people who are blind or visually impaired, but "the blind community"
taken as a whole largely does not exist, nor would I be interested in
joining or starting it. Twitter itself is a very large community, but
all users are not blind, therefore, it is not a blind community either.
On the other hand, there are most definitely alternatives to Twitter
that are usable by people who are blind or visually impaired, and are
also good for starting or joining various blind-friendly communities if
that is your thing. Most notably, I have been running
[Friendica](https://friendi.ca/) on my server for about 3 years and find
the web interface to be mostly accessible to Orca using Firefox and
Brave. [Pleroma](https://pleroma.social) is another that is already
usable with Orca, and is actively developed and is specifically working
to improve the accessibility of its default web interface, though other
web interfaces exist, along with API's that allow applications of all
kinds to access accounts and public timelines. Both Pleroma and
Friendica are largely Mastodon compatible, so many third-party clients
will work with either.
I have noticed, probably because I used to see my tweets in the more
accessible Friendica web interface, as Twitter's new owner didn't break
accessibility, it already sucked hard eyeballs long before he bought it,
that Friendica's database on my server has grown completely out of
control, upwards of 10GB. I have heard that Pleroma, though maybe a bit
less easy to set up, can run on more hardware, and is much lighter on
resource usage, so I may be playing with it as well. There is another
fairly new web application called
[Honk](https://humungus.tedunangst.com/r/honk) that is very easy to get
up and running on just about anything. I have played a bit with it, and
I believe it aims at Mastodon compatibility as well, but I have only
played a little with it at this point. The terminology is a bit
laughable, but the ease of setup is what got me started banging on it
just a bit. As I recall, the web interface works with Orca pretty well,
and runs very fast, though I haven't yet done enough with it to slow it
down, nor did I have enough of a timeline on it to really test it
thoroughly up to now.
If you're not looking to run your own server, even at home on a
Raspberry Pi, look for either a Friendica or Pleroma server that is
already up and running. These are both more compatible with ActivityPub,
the primary protocol used to allow Fediverse servers to talk to each
other, than Mastodon is, and neither suffers from the same heavy-handed
moderation that will cause a Mastodon server to be blacklisted if one
user said something that the Mastodon admins disagree with and the
server mods let it get by. Unless the operator(s) have made extensive
modifications that break things, both work very well with Orca and both
Firefox and Brave, and both are compatible with the growing number of
Mastodon clients that exist on various platforms and operating systems.
If it is kept updated, Pleroma is as I mentioned working specifically to
improve the screen reader accessibility of its web interface, so finding
a Pleroma server that is kept updated or starting one is probably the
best option at this point.
~Kyle
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