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2 years ago
15 years of usage went down the drain.
It really sucks but i had to do it...that place was getting really detrimental for my mental health and made me question everything regarding my own self and what others think of me as a person.
I moved to Mastodon and recently to blue-sky so feel free to give me a poke there if you want to.
But to be honest i not really sure if I should commit my self fully to those places as I am afraid I am gonna have the same experience as the years goes by and those places grow larger... Seems like I can't handle social media well so i will be using FA more often when it comes posting new stuff.
I also want to apologise to people who've been waiting for a commission slot but i had to cancel everything given how unstable I am lifewise at the moment...i had to sell my tablet and PC cause I needed funds asap for making ends meets.
People have been wandering where I've been too as I tend to vanish for months.
All i can say is that being homeless with very limited internet access puts me on halt here... But i started working part time again doing 2 jobs and I am trying to scrape enough cash to get my own place and settle down.... Rents are crazy these days I am telling you.
Some of my friends here where really kind to offer me funds but i had to decline this generous offer... I really appreciate it but I can't bring my self accepting that.
If I don't put my self down and find a way to stabilise my self for good it's gonna be a false cycle...I am gonna be nothing but a burden financially and all that generosity goes down for nothing... And i absolutely don't want to be that kind of a person... It's killing me.
I don't know when i will be back for good but I am doing my best...
Thanks a lot for reading... You are all wonderful people and I miss ya a lot.
It really sucks but i had to do it...that place was getting really detrimental for my mental health and made me question everything regarding my own self and what others think of me as a person.
I moved to Mastodon and recently to blue-sky so feel free to give me a poke there if you want to.
But to be honest i not really sure if I should commit my self fully to those places as I am afraid I am gonna have the same experience as the years goes by and those places grow larger... Seems like I can't handle social media well so i will be using FA more often when it comes posting new stuff.
I also want to apologise to people who've been waiting for a commission slot but i had to cancel everything given how unstable I am lifewise at the moment...i had to sell my tablet and PC cause I needed funds asap for making ends meets.
People have been wandering where I've been too as I tend to vanish for months.
All i can say is that being homeless with very limited internet access puts me on halt here... But i started working part time again doing 2 jobs and I am trying to scrape enough cash to get my own place and settle down.... Rents are crazy these days I am telling you.
Some of my friends here where really kind to offer me funds but i had to decline this generous offer... I really appreciate it but I can't bring my self accepting that.
If I don't put my self down and find a way to stabilise my self for good it's gonna be a false cycle...I am gonna be nothing but a burden financially and all that generosity goes down for nothing... And i absolutely don't want to be that kind of a person... It's killing me.
I don't know when i will be back for good but I am doing my best...
Thanks a lot for reading... You are all wonderful people and I miss ya a lot.
I am relived to see anything from ya honestly. I stopped with the whole Social media thing for a while myself... Im STILL reluctant on using them but I do kinda lurk on em, so seeing ya pop up in them was a relief... though I hope things can begin to improve for ya, and if ya need help you know you have folks who are more than willing to do what they can! I still care alot about you all, even if Ive been a bit on the quiet side as of late.
I completely get why you're not keen to return to social media; I felt the same way about Twitter and deleted my accounts there. I'm just so glad to hear from you, and I really hope things begin to settle down for you soon.
Love you loads, big bro.
Wishing you the best of luck. I understand why you'd turn down the generosity, but should push come to shove there's always people willing to lend you a helping hand when needed. This is important to remember.
You made the right decision to leave social media, it's scientifically proven to really mess with your head. I hope that both your mental health and living situation vastly improve. We'll be here when you get back but come back when you feel you are ready.
I am at least relieved to hear any news about you.
As for social media, you're not really missing out on too much, I think.
At the very least not with social groups that do nothing but get caught up in senseless drama and the like.
It's why I tend to primarily use it for posting art and checking out what others are doing. Past that I don't do much else there.
In any case, please be safe, and I do hope things even out on your end my dude. If you need to talk you know where to find me, and it seems you got plenty of folks who feel the same.
You still rock bud.
Im deffo relieved to hear from you again, been worried so much about you!
Please stay safe out there, and if you ever, ever need anything, do let me know, I'd be so happy to provide if I can!
I truly understand you about social media, I've been finding myself using them less and less now, I abruptly stopped using my normies Twitter account and I deleted my furry ones again, I doubt you're missing anything to be honest; Mastodon seems to had an influx for a brief moment and then settled, I don't know how the furry community is in Bluesky but looks like it's growing.
I've been trying to contact you through Telegram these months since you went silent, and I even tried to search another way to contact you with no luck; do you think you'd be using an IM app from time to time? I really don't want to lose contact with you, you're a dear friend to me.
I wish you the best, Mike!
And I agree completely on how social media like Twitter can affect you and your loved ones, as I’ve been trying to break away from X for a few days now, because not only because of the drama but the politics and what not too
And yeah, I've been considering nukin' me socials too, they can be too stressing to keep up with and also a hard hit on the self-esteem
It's a good step to look into what you want from a website and not stick with something that has gone from nice to participate with to something that feels awful and cruel. Stick to your guns with bsky, and choose for yourself whether interactions there are worth spending time.
Without using hashtags, my art re-posted to bsky has been worthwhile for me. I'm encouraged to continue sharing.
Unktehila.bsky.social
But it is good to hear from you. You have been dearly missed and I hope things improves for you soon. You are our very loveable big lime dragon.
Big hugs and cuddles buddy
Don't blame ya on the social media there....it's hard enough just to stay in touch with folks. Adding on everything else about the bird site just...bleh...
I do really hope things start to improve for ya ever there. Ya know where to find a durf if ya ever want to chat! Heheh *hugs tight*
I've also become very wary of where to fully commit myself to, but something I can say For Sure is that the less vendor lock-in there is, the better. So far Mastodon has the least possible vendor lock-in. It is literally a bunch of random people hosting their own mini-Twitters that talk to each other.
The fact that I can just download all my data and straight up migrate to a different Mastodon instance makes me Very comfortable with using it, and from what I'm seeing, federated social media is pretty much the way forward. Because that way, we don't have to rely on one giant ass profit-driven company that can, at some point down the line, turn into another Twitter.
We also saw Twitter happen to Reddit. Reddit was SPECIFICALLY a place built in response to a mass exodus that was happening from a social media site that turned rotten on its users, and years later, Reddit too started making heavy handed API changes until the community started to implode and then slightly recover.
But, with federated networks where you can just pack up all your Posts and Follwers and just *move* to another Instance? Hell yeah! No more vendor lock in, EVER. That's what I'm hoping for now, that federated social media such as Mastodon and Matrix start to slowly seep into the public consciousness as the once-and-for-all solution to the long cycle of social medias starting out great, becoming huge and then having a painful mass exodus.