Here, but not here. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what drove me off Mastodon. #Zionism, #Islamophobia, #AntiArabRacism (an odd one to affect me, since I am NOT #Arab, nor have I ever claimed to be) were the usual suspects.
Instance #admins & #mods did what they do best on the fediverse: they attacked. I was but one of a handful of #ProPalestine voices on here that needed to be silenced. #Dogpiling is one of their tactics. People come out of the woodwork to attack. It overwhelms.
They do this to score points with admins and mods calling the dogpile. Days and days of it, without relief. You block Every. Single. One. of them, but it’s never enough.
Finally, it seems as though they grow tired, and move on to their next victim. Until, months later, they start it all over again. Someone shares an old screenshot of you saying, #FromTheRiverToTheSea (or something equally pro-Palestine), and once again, all hell breaks loose.
They do this until you finally can’t take it anymore, and you leave. You stop logging on because you feel so sick and depressed from it all. You’ve been #harassed and #bullied nearly to the point of breaking. You’ve been called horrible names by horrible people who have thousands of followers.
The #Fediverse fucking sucks. All of social media sucks. It’s all just a toxic waste land filled with pathetic people who have nothing better to do than to attack #minorities. 😑
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