@pancake ahh, I lost context. You mean help maintain projects you maintain? I know of r2 and the fork of it, but haven't really followed it all much.

What could you use help with?

@fourlastor that def happened for me, I still am afraid of not doing image descriptions and cw stuff right, but at least it is easier. I couldn't even post food and had anxiety about being somehow an asshole by accident.

I did appreciate the people that explained it. I get why some may have that frustration with a flood of people porting over their not accessible and empathy lacking posts... but some mercy.

Think folks felt like it was a personal attack.

I never aim to offend and do care. A lot of folks were very hostile. Oddly, the most militant of them aren't even on here anymore as their values appeared to change with the herd.

Perhaps this is a part of Mastodon and Fediverse in general settling to what it truly is at the end of the day, after all the wild swings, this is normal and realistic.

People that choose to be here, instead of migrating from something else. That's the real deal good stuff.

@jerry @GossiTheDog ahh ok, that's somewhat what I thought. I can see that shift flowing slowly until it just all drops out due to critical mass of network of people they care about being available.

For me, the reasons I came here still outweigh the reasons for going on the others. I have named accounts on those I created today also, but primarily to squat the handles in case that's a problem for me later.

I do miss folks being around and being with me in the passions, logic, and reason for being here. It's the loss of that that hits the most. My mind fills the blanks and it is all negative and unsure how to make peace with it. Human nature perhaps makes more sense.

Small web is more attractive anyways, TBH. I want to be in webrings with folks that have dope sites and we're all a clubhouse of odd and diverse friends brought together by a very particular stance unwavering from!

I went from being on here to simply being alone to then being back on here and just getting back to it, getting used to it again.

It's a lot. It's not all doom scrolling. There is flowers and art and smiling people and just real people in life. It's pretty special, too.