It’s been a minute…

Assalaamu’alaykum, comrades 😸

Hope you’re not sick of me yet. Cuz I’m still here lol.

It takes a lot more than taking my platform access away to make me irrelevant 😼

So I wanted to give a proper life update.

A lot has changed since losing my Threads accounts. That period genuinely hurt, got me emo and everything lol.

I was torn between making a new account and “rebuilding” through my network of people I’ve known from my now-suspended Threads accounts, or building an alternative space that does not rely on empire-run, bigoted infrastructures that hate the dispossessed community, such as fvcking Meta.

Sounds like an easy choice, not gonna lie. But as an overthinker and a natural jack-of-all-trades (not to brag, I just can’t focus on one thing out of necessity), there are many challenges and risks in both options.

Creating a new account is an easy way out, but it still relies on Big Tech environments, which I despise, and they despise me too. However, that’s where I first built my presence and coalition. My supporters came mostly from Threads. Leaving the platform for good sounded like a betrayal…

Or so I thought.

Betrayal of what or who, though? I am still very much reachable on other social media profiles, and my essays are accessible on my website.

And then came the consideration of reach.

I managed to get 2.6 million followers on my first main Threads profile (it was 2.6K, but for my sanity, let’s say it was 2.6 million, hmmkay?). That number is nothing for those in the West. But for someone in Indonesia, with the majority of followers being in the US instead of Indonesia, that’s a lot lmao.

And to top it off, it was on a closed platform. Threads might claim to be “federated,” but it is still very much closed. And my account itself back then had the “Fediverse” function disabled. So regarding “reach,” even against the algorithm of bigoted platforms, that worked somewhat favourably for me.

And then the second option, building an alternative space that does not rely on empire-run, bigoted infrastructures that hate the dispossessed community, sounded complicated. And it is complicated.

Until I realised I had been (shit)posting as usual on kolektiva.social, which is one of the federated servers built on the Mastodon ecosystem. Over the following weeks after getting banned in end of March and mid-April lol, I found my posts on other servers. And interestingly, every time a post is edited, it gets bumped up on the feed like a new post, just with “edited at [time]” in it. That finding kind of eased my concerns about reach.

Being the spiteful yet resourceful little b¡tch as I am, I learned to federate my website, in the hope that I could make it reach more people and become useful for mutual aid infrastructure in the future. And maybe I could restart Mutual Aid Checkpoint again. One that has more reach while not having to bend to corporations’ classist compliance rules and regulations.

Long story short, your girl did it 😻😽👍🏻

I federated my website through ActivityPub. It can act as a federated server now, like mastodon.social, mstdn.social, kolektiva.social, etc. The only difference is that I don’t accept new user registrations, hehe. You can find my website on any federated social media server under @posts@wrzky.com.

So now I’m preparing to bring Mutual Aid Checkpoint back in a new form through federated platforms, with weekly roundups on my website delivered via newsletter, so requests can last longer than one timeline post and reach more people.

Please read the announcement here: Mutual Aid Checkpoint Returns!

And of course I will make a separate, dedicated section for Palestinian mutual aid campaigns, duh. Also, did you know we (and by “we” I mean me and my mutuals on the fediverse) have a verification team for Palestinian accounts? Meet Aral on the fediverse!
Aral is a known figure in Fediverse tech/activism circles, and his verification work for Palestinian accounts is valuable. He’s awesome, and he’s my mutual 😼👍🏻

If you have been advocating for mutual aid campaigns for Palestinian families, please consider branching out to the Fediverse. At least you won’t have to worry about being banned from the server unless your account gets reported by many haters. It’s something you won’t have to worry about if you don’t move abrasively like me 🥹 (I’ve got someone hating my guts on that platform already lmao).

And if you are there by any chance, please find Aral to help verify accounts and families for the mutual aid campaigns.

For Sudanese and Congolese mutual aid campaigns, they’re mostly on Instagram, but I will remain amplifying them.

And I’ve been thinking bigger too: building WRZKY as a proper independent entity here in Indonesia, so I can raise funds directly through my own website more safely and with more autonomy, without relying entirely on third-party platforms.

That could mean registering WRZKY formally, which is something I would have to make compromises for, while building cleaner systems and protecting my privacy better in the process.

Mostly, I just wanted to say thank you.

Support, patience, boosts, kind words, subscriptions, and remembering me when algorithms didn’t—all of it mattered more than you know.

If you’d like to keep hearing from me directly, you can please sign up for my newsletter. I won’t add Patreon supporters automatically; it will always be opt-in.

Also, feel free to follow me at @wrzky@kolektiva.social and/or my site at @posts@wrzky.com via a Mastodon app or on the fediverse to get my long-form articles directly in your feed!

I’m still here. Just building differently now.

See you around, I hope 😽