@vkc I'm sorry you have to deal with this. You deserve so much more than the disrespectful and disgusting shit you get. Don't take their bs! But also, I hope you don't leave!

@gardiner_bryant thanks Gardiner. I know you've seen some stuff too.

@vkc I’m fuming on your behalf.

@vkc Please stick around. We need your voice.

@adhdeanasl @vkc

@vkc I have. It's no fun. But they don't own the Fediverse and I won't let them chase me off it or feel bad about being my authentic self.

I appreciate your content, your presence in my timeline, and I hope you know that you deserve to be here harassment free. Again. I'm sorry you have to deal with the special hell of daring to be a woman online. I wish there was something I could do to help.

@vkc All I can add to this conversation is that these people need to get their shit together or fuck off. That's not adding much though, is it?

@vkc Rock the boat? Screw that, blow a fucking hole in the bottom of it. What you do is valuable.

Don't smile and take it. Somebody rolls up into your replies and starts shit, kick their teeth down their throat, give them a block, and keep the show rolling in spite of them.

I would like you to stay. This is one guy who values the women in tech, and wants to hear their voices.

@vkc I hate people are doing this to you.

Thank you for being you. Thank you for shining a light on this garbage behavior.

As importantly, thank you for your accessible content. I share nearly every video with my wife, who is an engineering prof and just learning Linux. We both really like your vibe, and as musicians we get a kick out of you sharing that talent, too.

I'm not very active on other socials, so I'm grateful to learn from you on Mastodon. Hope people knock it off so you can stay.

There will always be those kind of people around. Best is to not think about them and don't give them any attention. There will always be people like that no matter where you go. Personally I just focus on doing the things I like because if I started thinking about all those bad people, I'd go insane.

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@vkc
Im sorry you're having to deal with this bullshit.

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You shouldn't have to do more labor than the least anyone has to. We need to do better.

@squid64 friend, this is the exact kind of frustrating and unwelcome advice Veronica has been getting all day. it is a form of blaming the victim, and it's not okay.

@vkc Keep rocking the boat and calling out BS. It’s shameful others don’t when they should. I wish I had something better to say but I know this has shown me how unwelcoming fedi is and I too must call things out when I see them.

Please know your vids are awesome and you do great work.

@vkc fuck them, fuck that. Rock the boat, rock the casbah, do whatever you want. I enjoy your videos, posts, music, basically all of it. You are inspirational and the fedi is all the better for it with you here. Selfishly, I’d love for you to stay, but if you need to bounce, I totally get it.

@vkc@linuxmom.net I hope people can be a bit less shit

@vkc most of us would like you to continue to post about Linux and nerd stuff, yes.

Wouldn't say I don't want you to rock the boat though. Nuke it from orbit if you have to.

Complacency is being complicit. Us men need to stop letting that shit slide, and not just because it's accumulating into a cesspool.

We all need to stand together with our fellow fedizens and report these assholes until the suns comes up.

I'm just saying there is really nothing you can do about it because no matter where you go you'll have people who are disrespectful or just bad. I am not victim blaming. I also been harassed all the time before and this is pretty much the best thing to do. The more you care and think about it the more they will do it.

@vkc@linuxmom.net My world seems to fall apart. When Elon Musk bought Twitter and had not yet renamed it, I left it. That seemed the right choice. Twitter would soon cease to exist. Twitter still exists and the people I left, have never come here. You are here. You are one of the few lights in the night that say that the world may not fall apart.