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1 month agoi looked through your post history a little, i know it might be hard considering whatever feelings you may have had for her but i think it’s better if you just leave the group chat, block her, and move on. i’d take a break from dating for a while as well, and focus on your friendships and those who really care about you in your life. you deserve to have better friendships and relationships rather than seeking validation from your terrible sounding exes and stangers on lemmy. it’s probably not a good idea to post about all of this online anyway. you’re still in high school. do your homework, give your mom a hug, go outside for a bit, it’s nice out today. it’ll be alright.
I know this is reposted to lemmy so people are understandably going to connect those dots but OOP was talking about cohost, a site very similar to tumblr. Many people (including myself) jumped ship from tumblr to cohost following a series transmisogynistic bans and censorship from tumblr’s staff. Cohost was run by 4 people, didn’t run ads and was funded entirely by the community. It was honestly the best social media platform I’ve ever used. Unfortunately it shut down in October 2024 due to lack of funding and developer burnout. In retrospect, OOP was right. The people I followed on cohost moved to discord servers or their own blogs, and while I didn’t engage much with my “community” on cohost while it was around, I lost a lot of what I used to see on there. I think lemmy and federated social media is more resistant to that because it’s spread across so many instances, but I think OOP has a point, smaller social networks like this and cohost aren’t stable. While I think tumblr and twitter are pretty horrible for many reasons and I don’t wish to go back, I can’t really blame OOP for their sentiments. Maybe one day we can have the best of both worlds.