this was a website where i stopped tagging my posts at all because it seemed to attract dozens of angry strangers. people still lament the lack of discoverability though
this was a website where i unbookmarked my own project tags, because people used them as a harassment vector, and then there was no reason to really check my bookmark feed any more
this was a website where someone still has a pinned subchost about how i don't have the right to be comfortable, where the subtext is that someone else has the right to be comfortable
this was a website where i watched a popular poster publicly bitch about a bad and clueless commenter and practically pursue them in a series of escalating and increasingly unnerving posts despite no further comments, until that commenter disappeared from the website entirely. zero other people seemed to have a problem with any of this. also it happened twice. and then there was the suicide baiter
this was a website where i was called a blue-no-matter-who liberal etc in a whole series of screenshot dunks because i said hamas causing mass death is bad, and also got a disappointed talking-to because i said israel causing mass death is bad
this was a website where one person being furiously angry over the lack of a color scheme could ruin the vibes for weeks. i guess it worked though
this was a website that shrank and shrank over time. this was a website where i went weeks or months without posting because the little voice in my head that annotates idle thoughts with "oh that would be fun to post about" just went quiet and i never knew how to get it back. (it's already returned for bluesky.) this was a website that was much nicer to read than twitter, but somehow orders of magnitude more stifling to post to than twitter
this was a website that made me wonder if it's even possible for me to get along with people, in general, at all
this was a website
