We are a tight night community on X in the writing and poetry community. We are composed of people from all walks, ideologies and special groups in life. When you engage people every day you get to know them and their presence. I would dearly miss them, so for that reason I have no plans to leave X. I have a lot of my work published online, links are readily available on my profile. One can get a good idea of the kind of person I am by reading my work. I reject the notion that I have to walk away from the community members I've engaged and enjoyed the creative process with in order to earn acceptance here or anywhere else online.
Respectfully, one can attempt getting to know someone before applying blanket assumptions to them. I accept everyone at face value and get to know them to the extent virtual communication allows, my only ask is the same in return. I am not phased by comments about people on X being cast in a negative light because I know they do not apply to me personally. My desire to get to know the #poetrycommunity and #writingcommunity on Mastodon is sincere.✨✨✨