really i despair what happened to tumblr, to reddit, to all the other homes i've either walked away from or been forced out of. all so a small group of people can have more little zeroes at the end of a banking statement, at the cost of humanity.

reddit is dying, and i'm more upset about it than i think i should be. i'm not really "present" on reddit, since it's more of a communal space than the personal-in-public spaces a lot of other social networks are, but it's still a site i've been on more or less for ten years. there's a moderator/subreddit strike planned, but at this point, i don't think the site itself will survive: the thermocline has been breached, and i'm not the only one publicly expressing a lack of future trust in the space. (i say, here on tumblr.)

i want many things, but it isn't about my wants, so it's time to stop wanting something better. i really do believe the internet—or at least its halcyonic promises—is dead.

Then I tried to slow down the tide of sexist bullshit in one thread, which was obviously the biggest mistake of all time, since reddit has never been a safe space for anyone (except white, entitled, male children with every privilege since ever).