this is one of the few places i feel like i can be myself and have genuine discussions with people from different walks of life. with all due respect to the people i know on other social platforms, i have a big feeling they'd treat this space as a twitter-adjacent platform and use it as a place to gain clout. if they find it on their own, i'm of course not gonna be upset at that, but i will not be the person to tell them about it.