my head is aching badly so I'm going to check out for a few more hours I think...not liking the Discourse™ much either

I'm gonna be honest about the awoo.space thing: I used to have accounts there (technically I still do) but left because a few people I used to know locally in Seattle colonized the place while I was away from it for a bit and started spreading shit about me. My ex who broke up with me last December went there, and shi's been wrapped round hir new partner who's invested a shitton of emotional effort into blackening my name so as the better to pose as a rescuer. There's little doubt in my mind that I and all my auxiliaries, particularly @kel, are among the people whom awoo.space wants to keep "safe" from. That having been said>

>I can't honestly see a legit argument for railing against awoo.space and the folks running it for deciding on stricter rules for engagement. That's how it's _always_ been in social groups of all sorts. This modern notion that social spaces need to be wide-open, with no preset rules governing who can see and reply to others, is a new thing indeed, an artifact of the Internet. I wouldn't expect to be able to go into every room of every house, even houses I'm invited into. why should I expect the same of an online social medium? so Iet awoo.space do it's flippin' thing.