I’ve treated Lemmy as a fun, silly blog since I made my account. I love how you can freely post anywhere and as much as you like, unlike on Reddit. I’m also a teen who grew up online with unrestricted internet access and does online school, so I’m a bit addicted to being online. I love how much more interactive the comments feel here, despite it being a smaller platform. I’ve had fun reading and interacting with people. But I think I might delete my account and everything, because people analyzing my behavior and accusing me of things has started to get to me. Most recently, someone accused me of trying to manipulate people because of my age and gender. All I wanted to do was make people feel some fun and giggles. I’m wondering if you’ve ever felt something similar.
Websites aren’t real.
Block the haters. Do what you want.
Shit, nobody gaf what you are, your content has become a c/shitpost staple in less than a month. Fuck people who judge you and keep the content flowing ;)
Just make a new account then
Edit: yoo it’s violet08, you make good content, keep it up
My account will be deleted when the instance no longer exists. No need to do anything myself.
Did you know that reading the replies to what you post and comment is entirely optional? Just be yourself, respect the rules of the community/instance youre on, and fuck everyone else. Fuck everything else. Turn off seeing upvotes and downvotes on posts. Just do what you want. Vote how you want. See what you want.
When you die, you will be the one who dies. Not the haters. Fuck what they think or feel.
Just be.
I personally like your contributions, they’re coming from a novel place compared to the average user here (primarily 30+ dudes in my experience - lots of people that don’t fit that mold too but I feel comfortable saying 30+ dude is probably the default here). I can see folks being suspicious of you given this, but it’s not like you’re going around slipping Venmos in people’s DMs. You just hornypost - OMG it’s almost like young women have a high sex drive sometimes, crazy concept. And there’s been a few of those posts that have made me chuckle.
Welcome home kid. Keep being you, more diversity of users and content is a good thing. Anyone makes you feel like shit about participating here, block their ass. Hell, to a certain extent this holds for me even if you’re a 30+ dude pretending to be a young woman (oldest game on the internet, lol) - so long as you’re just posting for fun and not trying to get anything from anyone else, or put some poor idiot in a compromising position, who really gives a shit?
Will say that the girls over at https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/femcelmemes would probably (?) enjoy your company if you haven’t checked them out yet.
Nah.
I blocked the .ml instance like everyone should and I’ve had a great experience overall.
Eh. Sure.
I was also a teenager on the internet, back when Reddit was a chill place to be. Now I’m an adult, with… responsibilities.
My advice?
Enjoy yourself, have fun, be unfiltered, be silly. The internet isn’t that big of a deal as long as you keep a degree of separation between your irl identity and online life. It’s liberating especially as someone who was a bit socially awkward.
Still, don’t forget mental hygiene. A break is good from time to time. Talk to people irl, take a walk, touch grass.
When people get angry online, I do my best to be a duck, let it wash off, respond either pleasantly or with cheer. Life is too short to be miserable, so go forth and have fun little duckling :)
This is good advice
I felt that way, too. I started enjoying it more again when I started blocking people that I wouldn’t want to interact with, and blocking communities that seem to attract that type of person.
Some people will go way out of their way to be offended. Some people just want to make you feel small. But that’s not most people. Most people are good. You have to separate the wheat from the chaff. If you get stung from time to time just shake it off and don’t become cynical. All the best.
I have been online since 1993 and had been taught and continue to treat everything I post as if it will never be deleted. I don’t see a point in deleting my accounts when the data has very likely been duplicated the instant I sent it and could still easily be reposted or used by whoever has access to the database it is stored on; let alone the multitude of unknown bots and agents that may have duplicated it independently.
So, no. It never even crosses my mind because I think it is rather pointless. Of course, it is also because I don’t really talk about my personal life in detail enough, or use my real name online so my online identity can be linked to my real one and don’t have any fear of something I said when I was 9 being used against me now that I am 41.
The tech to link anonymous profiles to real identities end masse might not be ubiquitous, but I saw an article recently that says it exists using AIs. However, most AI is ridiculous so I’m not sure.
That’s why you gotta post using different posting styles, punctuation, slang, hobbies, and post times on different web sites with different accounts for the past 28 years (I am mentally ill)
The tech to link pseudoanonymous profiles exists. They are not linking your one off account to your real data on their own. They are linking alt accounts to people’s main account that is often using their real name.
Unless they are able to be fed shit like all the school work I did growing up or all my personal notes that were physically written down, they won’t have enough information on my real identity to link my online one.
Block those people, they aren’t worth your time. report them too, get the harassers banned
Ive been here three years, and ive been accused of being all kinds of things. You cant let it get to you. You should absolutely think about peoples comments and figure out if its about their own issues or if its genuinely a problem with your own personality though.
There are users here who had difficult upbringing because of racism or gender issues, and they will think you are a hateful person if they see a comment they dont agree with on those topics.
Hang in there. If you can make comments and posts that make people feel good (many upvotes), you are helping the community I would say.
Nah, your posts are good. Fuck the haters. I don’t even bother to look at usernames 90% of the time but I recognized a few of the posts you’ve made over the past few days in lemmy shitpost and they are genuinely good.
Oof, yikes. 🧡 Maybe switching instance to a more chill place would help?
If people are jumping on you like that, that should a thing your mods can deal with. I don’t know if lemmy.world has the kind of mod team that would go out of their way to protect you from this kinda shit (since they’re a big generalist instance), but if not, you’re likely to get better moderation on a smaller server. Like how we’re on pawb.social and it’s probably pretty good here. Just like, having a place with admins who care. But it might be worth bringing the stuff up to the lemmy.world mod team, because if they can handle it it’s easier than packing up and moving.
(We’re not teen here, but are also Super Online. And also various forms of queer and otherwise marginalized so yeah, I get it.)
– Frost
nope. its been fine to me.
