twitch of twitch.cymru

is there any sort of plan to set up a forum for cohost users? i think that would be cool and i know there's free forum sites you can use but idk if anyone's already done that

i don't want to go back to mastodon or tumblr, no matter how much anyone posts about giving them another try

the ableism on this site also made it hard for me to use at times. like i guess it was still a bit better than my experience of ableism on other sites but that doesn't mean it didn't hurt so much. and now i'm seeing the people who were horribly ableist towards other disabled people i know, writing about how wonderful and perfect this website is, which feels a bit insulting to be honest. and i know nostalgia makes everything seem perfect or whatever, but the website isn't even gone yet and all the ableism over the tagging discourse and stuff was only like a few weeks ago.

this is branded as the queer leftist site so i had hoped that ableism wouldn't be so vile here, but i guess ableism gets everywhere and tbh it shouldn't surprise me. i mean tumblr is always branded as the "queer autism" site even though in my personal experience it's still insanely hostile to minorities unless you're a very very specific type of queer autistic person. i still got transphobic and ableist (and xenophobic) harassment on tumblr despite it's reputation as the leftist social justice site or whatever. and there were still issues with ableism (and racism) on cohost.

it's just that there were large issues/discussion/site-wide discourse around ableism only a few weeks ago and i know everyone is sad to see the site go, but it just seems sort of like nostalgia has made everyone forget that there were still some very vile things that were said and done. i'll be happy to no longer share a site with some of those people. even though i am sad to see the site go. please don't misinterpret this as i'm happy to see it go and that i thought everything about i was awful.

so excited to finally start my ocd medication tomorrow lol. and my 4 different supplements bc i'm so deficient in everything apparently. but i'm so looking forward to not being so exhausted all the time, i hope the supplements work as well as the doctor seemed to think they will (i mean i'll still have chronic fatigue from the fibromyalgia i assume, but the supplements surely will help at least a bit?? or maybe a lot i hope, bc my test results were so low)