• TillieNeuen [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    A while ago, someone made an alt to post about their terminal cancer diagnosis. I think about them sometimes and wonder how they're doing.

      • TillieNeuen [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        Yeah, I've thought about posting something to reach out and see how they're doing, but as I recall, they said at the time that they made the alt instead of posting under their usual name because they didn't want their normal fun posting time to turn into a bummer and be all about cancer. So I don't want to ruin that for them.

        Anyway, if the person with a terminal cancer diagnosis is reading this, I remember your post and I hope you're doing well :heart-sickle:

  • urlocaltranscomrade [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Sometimes you’re the one who experiences the disappearing. But then other times (in my case) you live long enough to become the disappeared. 👻 Honestly though, depression is just what fucked me up. I feel bad for all the people I ever interact with and inevitably fall out of touch with.

    • Comrade_Cummies [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      This so much. It's almost a year now since I've spoken to some of my fav online groups. I just suddenly stopped coming on for them. I feel especially bad 'cause one of them is really sweet, someone who always made my day, and someone I could've had a life long friendship with. We needed each other and I let her down. It's a habit tbh, I ghost when I need time for myself. She doesn't even know if I'm alive and probably fucking hates me now, but what's new?

  • medium_adult_son [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I like to think that the folks who are no longer active on this site are doing real-world praxis in their community. On at least one announcement here, someone said they would be more active in real life orgs and that made me feel better.

    :heart-sickle:

  • kingspooky [he/him, they/them]
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    4 years ago

    I've been the suddenly disappeared internet friend for at least one person
    I hope she's still doing ok, but i feel like she wouldn't even recognize me anymore
    I vanished right after something extremely bad happened to me because i knew how bad my mental health was getting and knew i was likely to spiral into doing some really unhinged shit
    I still have her discord, but... like I said, I kinda don't think she'd even recognize me anymore. I've never been the same, emotionally.

  • glimmer_twin [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    It is good opsec to use burner accounts and change them every so often - maybe your favourite poster is still here just under a different name :)

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    I have to wonder if I'm a missing internet friend to someone. I've been social online since the 90s. Can't even remember most of the people I've talked to.

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      This site is the first time I care about the people in here. The rest of places I pretty much hated or didn't interact with most people.

  • imperialsunset [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    Btw what happened to this site?? Back when it was chapo.chat, it was pretty lit. But I haven't been around in a while, and it seems content took a nosedive.

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      People aren't posting enough