1/ Today was the first time since 2020 I was able to access my bird account. I walked away from all social media in 2020 because it was toxic. Bots spamming my posts about how Black lives mattered, which I had always agreed with. Yet every few minutes for days on several posts I was spammed. The negative energy I was trying to ignore just wore me down. Then the adware was out of control on top of everything else.
2/ So last fall I started a new account because I couldn’t sign in to my old one after the 2FA was only allowed for premium accounts and it wouldn’t let me get in to the account to turn it off. I wanted to contact a friend I had in the Navy, an then I just let it sit. In January I wanted to see what others were saying and feeling about the election. I am a huge Apple News + user so although I read events I wanted to see beyond just the facts. So I logged in to the new bird account.
3/ I tried following and connecting with accounts that I had interacted with in my original account. Nobody remembered me except for a handful. So I followed recommended accounts which several I recognized from the past. I’m not sure what happened but it wasn’t the same. Real hate was everywhere, sexy photos gone and guns everywhere. I didn’t understand right away that there was more organized religion at play then I witnessed openly. Jokes didn’t land the same.
4/ Then I posted to a video of a guy on the Subway wearing the new Apple Goggles. I made a comment about if we were going to end up seeing tan lines for them. I was just a stupid comment. It was spammed for a few days with over 250 likes and comments. For an account that was only following just over 40 accounts it was strange. I was suspended for suspicious activity. I had bought the premium package because it said it had less ads, and the ads looked like the had digital VD originally.
5/ So a few days later I was struggling with PTSD and pain, trouble sleeping I was using the site as a distraction and was notified in the middle of the night that my account was suspended. I tried to get help but the have an automated system that just pushes you through with automated letters and decisions. I was notified that I had manipulated my account which was against the rules and my account was permanently suspended and would not be reactivated permanently.
6/ Honestly I gutted me and I cried and felt completely cut off. Then as I watched them delete everything in my account I tried everything I could to try and get real human assistance with nothing. I had been verbally attacked several times that day by a guy who had been in jail for January 6th. It was after I blocked him and his friends that the ban happened. I felt lost honestly because there is no way I was going to turn to anything owned by Facebook.
7/ A few days later I followed a link from Render back here to my account I had forgotten about because I created it right before I walked away in 2020. Honestly it was exactly what I needed. I can’t manipulate my way out of a bag yet do it to an online account. I’ve never even gotten a warning on anything. So I didn’t even know what I supposedly did. I’m year subscription paid and unrefunded after not even a month.
When things stop being fun, I generally stop doing them.
@SatuUnelmia Oh wow, it sounds like you really needed this place! I'm glad you (re)found it. It's safe here. 😊
@Christmas_Snow Yes, I don’t think I realized how much until I sat on my old account scared to even post anything. That’s not like me at all. I’m socially awkward at times but always myself. The Bird took that feeling away from me because I’m not a trouble maker and I believe in remembering that real people are behind the pixels and always try to be kind. So being suspended and banned really shook me up a bit. I’ve healed here without realizing it.
@SatuUnelmia The 'how i got here' stories always interest me. I followed a guy on 🐦 and when someone announced he was buying the app, the guy i followed posted a link for here so i came over. Didn't completely leave there for awhile, but i noticed something--whenever i left here i was always in a good mood, but could never say the same about the other place. It's how i knew this was the right site to spend time on. 🙂
@Christmas_Snow I feel the exact same way.
@SatuUnelmia Some great logos for this place might be:
~Let us relax you [Perhaps with this one, Gippy would be laying on a lounge chair with his laptop browsing CoSo 🙃]
~If it makes you happy, it can't be that bad <--yeah it's a ripoff from the Sheryl Crow song, but it fits doesn't it?
@Christmas_Snow How about….Kick the Algorithm out and bring the Social back into your Social and you be the one to choose your own social adventures!
@SatuUnelmia That's great, you got the spirit! 🙂
8/ So even getting access to my original account, I thought I would have been happy but I didn’t. I felt like if I made any wrong move it might be wrong. Nobody would remember me and everything in the world has changed since I used the account. It felt wrong. It was sad and sick feeling. There is no way I would ever pay them monthly again especially 22$ a month after never even getting a live body to help before. It really hit me that the fun I once had there is gone now completely.