Post 9k2reGSs45JU2O42ee by kara_dreamer@plural.cafe
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 (DIR) Post #9k2reGHWkGEtTCkyyO by kara_dreamer@plural.cafe
       2019-06-20T15:07:16Z
       
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       well...I've talked a lot about my dissatisfactions with the culture here. feeling like it's still based on old bad assumptions...people wanting a quiet place away from trouble, away from The Bad Peopleand paradoxically, or hypocritically if you like, I've hoped that I could find some kind of niche for myself here. no place has ever seemed much like home, not for years nowguess the tensions have reached some kind of breaking pointI think this place is gonna rip itself to pieces soon, and I don't think there's any polite way to say it, and honestly...? I'm not sure I want to try to stop it from happening.so maybe I should start thinking about where else I should be
       
 (DIR) Post #9k2reGSs45JU2O42ee by kara_dreamer@plural.cafe
       2019-06-20T15:15:14Z
       
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       and I find myself thinking also...I know a ton of cool people, _in person_, here in Seattle. there's many more people in my life now than there was a couple years agoand you know something?hardly any of those cool people are HEREand maybe I should heed thatI have a few friends here but they're all far away. I don't want to lose those friends, if I can help it, but...I feel like the kind of person I am, and the kind of person who's comfortable here, are two different people. and we're never gonna find enough common groundblehhoping more insight comes throughout the dayI am not happy
       
 (DIR) Post #9k2reGhlAjDsmZ1vrU by kara_dreamer@plural.cafe
       2019-06-20T17:36:55Z
       
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       there's always Twitter. it's run by fascists, but then...so is the whole damn country, and I can't leave _that_this fediverse...it was never a safe harbor from all thatand now Gab is going to tear this place to pieces......or, the fediverse will survive the disruption and be strongerbut in the meantime it won't be safe, or any place I want to be aroundTwitter is simpler. I can live on Twitter. I'm not sure I can live here
       
 (DIR) Post #9k2reGvwK0Z7UXfFxo by mdhughes@cybre.space
       2019-06-20T17:39:34Z
       
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       @kara_dreamer Well, there's plenty of weird spaces on the Fediverse if one you're in isn't right. I've got a couple fallbacks, and could always run my own Pleroma if came to that.Gab's a teapot in a tempest, they're boned once they get on and the "serious" instances block them and the not-serious instances flood them with furry porn.
       
 (DIR) Post #9k2sQa18fhIiZy8CNU by kara_dreamer@plural.cafe
       2019-06-20T17:48:13Z
       
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       @mdhughes well, we we see, won't we, if the network can deal with Gab properly. it'll be a sort of test, I supposeI talked the matter over with my metamour (who, I should say, is NOT on "the fediverse" and considers the whole system to be unsound) and he's predicting that bad actors are gonna be posting massive dumps of private messages onto KF and so forth. I'm not sure folks are ready for how...well, how well-established and _determined_ a crowd of troublemakers is coming here. this isn't just some random crew of alt-righters