I log into my Second Life store management account and there’s someone thanking me for rebuilding Neo Machina (my city in SL) after it vanished years ago under a different person’s name

It’s seeming more and more like this “dav1d” guy is the central pain point in a lot of harassment on the fediverse, and that he’s possibly following me and others in my social circle from a fake account

I haven’t been sleeping a whole lot this week and it’s catching up to me

But one of the worst things you can do when confronted with someone whose been abused, or is being abused, is to say some manner of “that’s not been my experience”

The last thing I need on my timeline is someone vaguely posting about how their social media experience has been flawless and mostly without hate or abuse or pile ons or what-have-you

Do you know why you’ve never had that happen? Because you don’t challenge anything, and your views are “safe”

I had someone preaching to me privately earlier about submitting evidence of defamation to NL authorities, and this being bad and what-not, but

If you haven’t been in my shoes, you don’t understand, and you don’t get it

I would semi-appreciate it if the people who are talking about me, or the things that have happened to me in the past 2 weeks, would also actually tag me into those discussions

Feel like I’m watching a ton of discourse that’s spawned directly because of an asshat who thought he could just silence trans women on a whim, from the outside

I’m getting the impression that we have splashdown