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Yea ... even more broadly, there's definitely some weird psychology in the whole phenomenon of leaving a platform for another, none of which is talked about much, and which probably feels weird to talk about because for many we're generally not yet comfortable admitting how important these platforms have become for us.

It's probably a little bit like work where if you count the amount of time you spend there it'd force you to recognise how important it is to actually be as happy there as you can.

And so, as you say, in doing something drastic like hate-quitting a platform which was actually much more important and sentimental to us than we're willing to admit, all to go to a smaller and different place over which we might have some decent "buyers remorse", we end up with feelings we don't know what to do with, and as lame as it might sound.

I think you're onto something. We ran out of hate for Spez, Elon, and Zuck and moved onto hating eachother (as a collective, not saying anyone here, specifically)

As a result of the attacks, lemmyworld temporarily turned off open sign up and switched to an application process. I saw a comment asking if this made it more likely for beehaw to refederate. 😂 They only turned off open sign up because of the mass posting of CSAM on their instance, idk about y'all but that's not exactly making me jump to refederate...