I was a refugee (and have the paperwork and ptsd to show for it) and you know what? Having to move social platforms can feel similar if there is enough emotional investment (and imho online relationship are not less than offline ones) and not enough of the folks who matter to us who move with us.
Words matter. And so do (subjective) feelings.
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@vicgrinberg I still feel great loss from the demise of the bird site as I knew it. I had formed good relationships there. Many left, stopped posting, vanished. Some moved to other sites. It's not the same. As an autistic man, it was a long struggle to build those friendships and it is lonely without them.
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@RegGuy Just wanted to say that I feel sorry you went through it and that I acknowledge your feeling and the courage it took to take the jump.
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@vicgrinberg Thank you. I left the day before musky took over. I joined Mastodon a few weeks later. I have jumped around servers and finally settled here with my pseudonym rather than my real name, as I did on the bird site and here initially. Not sure it's necessary or not, but here I am...
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