@deilannmy timing, joining tech dot lgbt was alongside a lot of twitter refugees
but i wasn't a twitter refugee
i hadn't touched twitter since 2012 or so, except when i was mandated to do so for contract reasons
similarly, i hadn't touched facebook in the same time period
i joined fedi to experience social media again, not replace my current social media.it was a response to a completely different event that happened in late 2022.
the election
@deilannbut on tech dot lgbt i don't feel that pressure, i don't feel like my very story and identity is being stolen
i feel safe to be who i am
yes, my information can be scraped
it can be stolen
but the action of speaking here isn't inherently surrendering my story to the machine, myself to the machine
fedi let me exist, let me feel like i am allowed to be part of the world even after everything that i've been through
@deilanndecentralized social media matters
@deilannthank you @david @ShadowJonathan @agatha @sudaksis @mods for everything you do and have done to help me heal
@agatha@deilann 
i honestly think i only did a minimum but I'm glad you're better now!
@deilann@agatha knowing that mods actively use the instance, not just ... oversee it is crucial to feeling like i can trust an instance is well-maintained
@agatha@deilann i uh... I'm not a mod you know that right?
@deilann@agatha i thought you were in 2022 but stepped down
time is fuzzy
@deilann@agatha you have, however, been support regardless so 
@agatha@deilann that was very funny and got me confused for a sec
@deilann@agatha wtf is time
@agatha@deilann you went to a parallel dimension for a bit and that's where the memories came, i was never a mod wjdhwkhswkjskwjs
@deilann@tech.lgbt@agatha i have a bad habit of doing that i should stop but living in one reality is so boring
@agatha@deilann i get it