teabiscuits

websites being headed by and controlled by fascists has always been the issue. these people are intentionally suppressing discussion and progress. this is a known truth. when websites before the main 3 – or whatever you call them – shut down, people warned that this sort of thing would happen. limiting yourself to and relying solely on these platforms for media engagement in many ways was boxing yourself into a corner. losing websites like twitter, reddit, tumblr, whatever is a problem because it leaves no room for criticism or community action. and this is by design. the site was f*cked as soon as it was bought. companies can always be bought and sold, and the people with that type of money and acumen tend not to be of the greatest moral fiber. but us minorities could see the writing on the wall, and the forest for the trees, and tried to warn people. and it was met with, no shit, feeds of discussion dismissing these fears and concerns. people straight up saying that we didn’t understand the challenges leaving the site posed to other users who “relied heavily” on it. people saying things like nourishing yourself by eating certain brands of food was tantamount to continuing use of a social media site. because it wasn’t lucrative to small business owners. because it wasn’t as fun when all your memes and precious fanart was there. because people didn’t want to put in the effort to create new spaces and leave the old one behind. people always had the ability to leave twitter, to delete their accounts and not support musk… but i guess because some of y’all were privileged enough to fly under the radar of bigots, that you justified that time spent there. and i find it a little funny that people are only now jumping on the bandwagon that this is a problem because it hurts small business owners. no one cared a lick when minorities brought it up the first time. you just kept using twitter.

Except that’s exactly what I, and many other marginalized persons, did and had to do to protect ourselves from bigots. I had to give up a lot of my online presence and outreach because of these changes. I’m not sure what the implication is but I did in fact face the very issue you described. I lost things too? Everyone should have been considering a backup plan, not some -- and shocked pikachu face this is what happens. So I don’t sympathize, especially with content creators and other small business owners who did this to themselves. They had all of the time, the resources, and especially the reach to say “hey let’s go somewhere else, let’s do something new”... and instead, in majority, they clung to something that was inevitably going to break for its perceived convenience. You made your bed, so lie in it.

tumblr still blows for a lot of reasons don't get too full of yourselves just bc twitter's having another crisis

The trick is to not let people know how really weird you are until it’s too late for them to back out.

Absolutely the frak not, the trick is to immediately let people know how weird you are so you scare off the weak ones. The ones who stay because they like how weird you are? Those are the ones you want.

… you know what, codicil accepted

people who have "dni if an exclusionist in any way. also dni if ur a mspec lesbian tho ^-^" like thats exclusion babe. you are an exclusionist.