"These new Fediverse users, believing what they hoped to be the first place in decades where they could be their full selves online soon discovered that if they made any reference to their Judaism or connection to the land of Israel, they would lose friends, or worse, be attacked.
But when they redacted their Judaism or publicly attacked Judaism and Israel, everyone followed and boosted them.
Imagine the private humiliation of changing your identity, accepting the unspoken yet undeniable fact that this intergenerational marker of who you are is considered revolting. Imagine the betrayal of moving your online life.
You had fled other services to spare yourself this very same humiliation, but now you suffer the slow, seeping, soul shaking discovery that this new place is no different than the old place."
- Me, changing just a few words of Dara Horn talking about American Antisemitism to be about the Fediverse.
