Evil corporate social media

Hope it's alright if I drop some more stuff about myself that I need to get off my chest here. For about the last week now, I haven't been playing around with Facebook. I know, and I'm watching and waiting for Friendica to take off but I've got a few reasons right now. So after some unwanted comments from people that I knew 20+ years in school, I decided to create a new profile from scratch and block anyone and everyone that possibly knows me and start fresh as myself. Kind of using it like a combo of Bluesky and Reddit right now.

Firstly, I have been very combative around here when it comes to feminism and fighting on the 'woke' side of the war against woke. There's no real spaces for that around here, so I take it out sometimes on people around here. But the way I'm seeing it now is that the user base here is at the very least halfway there for needing to be aware of certain issues. So people here need reason more than anger. But Facebook is one of the frontlines of this war and could do with all of the pushing back that it can get.

Secondly, as far as mental health is concerned, I have been following certain neurodivergent people there, late diagnosed adults around my age group. And it's a different kind of relating and seeing myself and learning that I'm doing there, especially when I can see someone in video form talking (even if it's mute with subtitles), is a different type compared to threads in communities on anonymous platforms.

Thirdly, as someone that has had a gender related awakening in the last couple of years (I have none, never learnt to be one or the other defaults), I have been a whole lot of good hits of euphoria. I'm living in a place where I'm not planning on even telling anyone in real life about this (if they're clued up enough, they can ask), so I haven't cared about pronouns, but setting my system pronouns to they/them and seeing those pronouns actually used on me made me feel things. Good things.

And fourth, which is basically my first, second and third points combined. I have a stylised non-binary flag as my banner and I'm pretty proud of my profile picture where I've brushed my long hair all to one side, so that it looks like I've got long hair on one half and short hair on the other. It's a real photo converted to ascii (in various shades), so it hides small details but still looks pretty good and real to the human eye. And I've already had someone I was arguing with say "you white women" to me lol. Just to be clear, I am amab. Best part is that it was a TERF that insinuating that she's pretty proud of being able to tell. I've made everything public on this profile, posts, likes, groups, follows, all. But I'm not doing anything else different. They're all my interests and thoughts and views, just without anything making what gender I was assigned to at birth.

So I feel like I'm out there proving points, alleviating my mental (un)health and affirming how I feel about my gender (or lack thereof) all at the same time!

Edit: just want to add that another thing it's good for is regional shit. I joined a South African genderqueer group. This whole time I have been exploring through American dominated platforms where everyone is anonymous and I always assume I'm speaking to an American. And I'm pretty disconnected from my own country in general. So this opens up whole new possibilities for me.