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To be honest graf I'm just happy you're doing better regardless of things you've said/done whatever, I don't care about any of that and I've long since moved past that. All that matters is improving as a person and moving forward and working to amend bridges, and you're doing a swell job of that. You put your money where your mouth is when it came to refederating NPC, I'll give you that. Good stuff. If you're working on yourself and are taking the time to be happy and make happy circumstances then that's all I could ask.

I've also taken the most recernt fundraiser drive and given it to developers of software we've been using to further support development. I am trying to make this a positive place again. when we all came on in 2021 it was so chill and then 2022 happened and it was just stupid shit after stupid shit. I admit I was quick to fly off the handle a lot of times but the fact that a lot of us are still here, most of you are willing to give me a chance to re-mend means a lot to me. i know it probably sounds stupid but i notice when you're gone

I had a lot happen to me in my most recent time away but to be honest you guys were in the back of my mind a lot of the time. To me there will never be another place like fedi and another people that make it up like you guys, and you guys have made a wonderful (oftentimes chaotic) place of it, and it's never a boring time even if there's a fire in the kitchen. As for giving you a chance to make things up, I'm all about second chances because I'm on my fifth and even sixth with a lot of people. I can't be that much of a hypocrite.
You're going to keep making this an interesting and chill place to be and hopefully along that way I can be part of that vision somehow, in some way. You've sank a lot of time and effort into this place, so does p, so does ins0m, a lot of you guys do. I get it.
That's an interesting gesture, and I'll think on it. I don't mind being on Poa.st at all, it was the second instance I ever went to and I'm still happy it's around. It's perfectly okay graf, we live and we learn, and we get heated in the moment and say awful things to each other and I even went over the top with a lot of my own B.S. (calling milk a chomo was absolutely unhinged behavior btw, if he ever reads this I was and still am sorry for that), so I get it. You were put in a lot of unflattering and compromising positions graf, you had a lot of threats to look out for and you were responsible (still are) for the safety of thousands. I don't blame you for feeling the way you did about me and acting the way you did toward me, a lot of it I brought on myself. But that's living and learning, we realize our complicity in our behavior and how we're responsible for it, we own up to it, we move on. That's the way it goes, and I'm happy to be able to have this moment to say that here with you. It's all good.

And hey. I'm sorry too. There's a lot to apologize for, a lot of shifty and shitty behavior that I know you discussed, but in the end I'm no bad actor. A bad person sometimes yeah, it's a product of a lot of things, but I wouldn't want to hurt you, your platform, your users, nothing. I made a lot of laughs with you guys, made some fun content for you all, cried with some of you too, you remember you and I watched the sun rise in some foreign nation on a livestream with several other guys to watch a geopolitical shitshow unravel. Just all around had a blast and I wouldn't even take away the bad moments. Fedi's pretty cool good and bad, and I think it's in good hands with you and the admins.

It's so weird not using six layers of irony to talk about or make fun of something to protect my ego too or just write something off as insincere snark. I kind of had a conversation with Madison earlier that was like that. idk maybe there's something to being medicated. Time will tell.

You weren't here but my 40th past and I realized I'd held grudges for so many for so long and I thought long and hard about it and I want to make fedi fun again. we fundraised, gave some devs some cash we drummed up thinking of ideas of things we could add to profiles to make it fun and interesting. this is my home now. unfortunately I am forever tied to poast in pseudonym and real name, forever. if I'm stuck here with you guys, I want it to feel like 2021 again. everything was new and exciting to us. so I wiped the slate clean. even unblocked pernia and cum.salon. there are some obvious caveats (poison dart pedo for example) but for the most part everything was wiped. it's been a fun month. rarely any major fights. people working together. I hope it continues, truly
@graf @ins0mniak @AWIVR @GoyGirl @koropokkur @Robert_Edwardly @pepsi_man @NonPlayableClown @Owl honestly chad move, I ended up doing the same thing

looking back over the past three or so years I've ran this instance I was overly whiplashy with the likes of user deactivations and instance defeds, after seeing graf wipe most of poast's defeds I figured the best way to deal with my situation was to do the same thing and blanket unban everyone that wasn't a kiddy diddler

the instance hasn't blown up and I haven't been doxxed so I want to say it has been a successful endeavor so far

back in 2022 we wrote an MRF that checked a user account date and if it didnt match an artbitrary threshold the posts were dropped immediately and the timeline cleaned up almost instantly. 99% of the bullshit back then was people making driveby accounts to insult me or somebody else or make one shitpost and vanish. even 24 hours was enough in some instances

Dicey's been one of those strange people that became pretty popular to dislike because of his mistreatment of his mother, how he shows contempt for the working class, how he essentially soft-booted his mother out of her own house to live in the apartment she furnished for him, is a welfare sponge and fraudster, does abuse drugs, has an extremely high estimation of himself and in doing so is extraordinarily vain, can't do basic things and essentially lives in the lap of luxury despite having done nothing to earn it. All the music I made about him, while funny, is factual. He's threatened to rape the Clown, Sui and myself, sent a video of himself shaving to some poor NCD woman, sent a litany of death and beating threats to the aforementioned trio, just all around bad news.

coming off benzos if he is a regular user or somebody who abuses it is like, deadly if not taken with great care. people who abuse benzos/alcohol drugs in a combination like that tend to act like you're describing. if he is tapering i hope he is being monitored for his own safety. I am thankful I take lorazepam rarely when I have anxiety or panic attacks which are much less frequent now (might have to use sublingual once a week or every other week)

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I don't think he understands that or cares, and I surely don't think he's being monitored. Some people are just on a path of self-destruction and you just have to let it ride. I've already explained this to him and got little more than a "fuck you" so :marseyshrug:

The weird thing is that he has such a negative opinion of so many people on the internet, does all of this stuff, and writes off his lack of acceptance on the computer since he hangs out with old guys at a bar and eats tapas and goes swimming and considers this all the makings of a successful person. Almost everyone that bothers him now here used to be his friend, myself included. I can't do "I went off the deep end" with people; I barely handle that for myself.

a lot of people on here have very negative opinions of me but if you ask any of the probably 50-60 people i've met from fedi now they would be likely to tell you i'd rather give you the shirt off my back then see you cold. like i tell anybody that comes to my house (obv no face/body pics of anybody present) but make sure you leave me a single beer for the morning in case im hung over. otherwise my house is yor house. cook what you want, drink what you want. do whatever you want. and its always been chill. i love everybody ive met from here. i understand i come and have came off as standoffish and abrasive to people but i am earnestly working to correct that and it shows in how i take care of my friends, my guests. anybody who gives me their time of day

Try to do something nice or helpful for somebody IRL related to you or not, complete strangers are better. Try to do that every day. Knowing you made somebodys day brighter lifts a lot of negative energy. I don't feel nearly as high strung or stressed or on edge as I used to and that translates into how I approach people and conversations. so thank you for giving me the opportunity to do that here

>why does he care so much what people online think of him

The dude cries about follower counts.
Which is really retarded to care on fedi, as you can easily inflate that number.

>obviously he has no irl friends or people he associates outside of the computer, right?

Basically, even his left his ass.
>Which is really retarded to care on fedi, as you can easily inflate that number.
if they are the admin sure editing the database is easy. I trimmed some dead instances like chudbuds or i'd be over 10k now. I will probably trim some more so it'll lower. I haven't trimmed bae.st yet because I am nt sure how revolver will work with the user import and I don't want to fuck up federation but yeah anybody that gives a shit about follower count anywhere is retarded