Disqordia will shut down on April 30th, 2023

It's not easy to announce this. I've worked hard on this space, and my work has resulted in a ton of new features for both Pleroma and Akkoma that I'm proud of, and our users have gone to create a lot of amazing projects and instances with the safe space we offered them in the face of hostility outside this instance.

But it's taken a massive toll on my mental health and I've lost the heart for running this space. I've had to hide on alts to stay out of drama and people's obsession with me, and mere proximity to me has been enough for my friends to be harassed or smeared as well.

We've endured a ton of false smear campaigns, and while I've tried my best to combat them and show that our users are a diverse group of amazing leftists, those smear campaigns from people like emilis, welshpixie, twinkle_mouse, monads, etc have been effective at making people believe the worst in us.

I know I haven't been perfect as an admin, sometimes in fact I've been downright toxic and I own up to that and am sorry for anyone who's been hurt by me. But I'm hurt and stressed constantly from this space, and the only way to heal that is to remove myself and get on with my life. I've tried not posting and being more just background admin support and people still find ways to hate me and pull me into stressful drama, and I can't do it anymore.

I wish everyone luck and I hope to stay in touch. The forums and the fedi instance will be taken down and all data will be deleted at that time, but we'll still keep the Discord server for those who want to keep in touch.

Thank you for everything