@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.

@vkc@linuxmom.net rock that boat, hell, everyone rock it. let's capsize that fucker so people take notice and actually do something >:0

@vkc not everybody. stay as you are and (try to) ignore the idiots

@vkc I would leave. Your well-being is more important than being here. I'd miss you but totally understand.

@vkc You unintentionally did the equivalent of pouring gasoline on yourself by sharing the posts. Dogpiling is an issue on the more open sides of the network.

@vkc I hope you stay, and I hope a solution is found to make your experience here safer. ️

@vkc remember, that in internet you have 2 beautiful things:

@qugalet
it is very weird that you assume that
1. she doesn't know about them
2. they are enough to avoid any bad behavior, anywhere on the internet

@vkc

@vkc I'd be sad if you left, but your well-being is more important.

@vkc solidarity

@vkc so sorry and disgusted that you have to endure all this harassment and worse. For what it’s worth, I’m really glad you’re here and posting your blog posts and videos (as a longtime Mac user plotting his move to Linux at some point in the future).

@vkc

I'm so sorry you're getting that, here or anywhere.

If I see that crap I call it out and at this point, I'm so exasperated by so much I'm caring little about side effects... but I know chronic harassers use fedi techniques to avoid people not the target from being able to see the harassment. It's chased a lot of black folks off. The rest of us willing to report, call out shit, etc, feel helpless. (Not that anyone can so easily "fix" them, but at least raise their 'cost of doing business').

I hope you stick around but I get it, if you gotta go, do it. Our loss.

@vkc Please _do_ rock the boat, but don't let it define you.

@vkc Thank you for venting and making visible what's wrong in our shared public space. I wish there wasn't a need to, but alas…

I'd love for you stick around and be yourself, and have a good time here, and continue to rock the boat whenever you see the need, but your well-being is more important, so whatever you feel is right, more power to you!

We all can't just make the assholery disappear entirely (and moderation tools are merely reactive), but please remember that while they are loud and hurtful, they aren't that many (just loud), and we are here for you.

@vkc it’d be a huge loss if you leave. Moreover, the less good people you have in any group, the bigger % of bad people that group have

However, it has nothing to do with your wellbeing. Please, do what is best for you

And thank you for all the things you’ve done for the community

@gardiner_bryant @vkc

you both don't desrve this shit. you produce quality content for free and theblast thing you should get is harassment. And for @vkc getting special treatment becaus woman, it makes want to puke.

I will report harassment as soon as I see it, but I hoper there was something more I coild do.

Stay strong.