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Today undid a lot (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Today I learned that my ex has been stalking me online.

It's not worth going into any details beyond that she dug out some old post of mine on the fediverse. She's not someone I would expect to come here, but she went looking anyway and used it as an excuse to try and hurt me yet again.

I'm terrified that I'm going to have to file for an intervention order, I honestly thought she would be the one person who would respect being blocked but she made the effort to contact me regardless. It terrifies my that I don't know this person anymore, I have no idea what she's capable of and I have no idea where I'm safe anymore.

The one silver lining has been me finally learning to trust my friends, I've had so much support in such a short time that I feel truely blessed.

I'd just managed to put the last of my anxiety to rest a few short weeks ago, and now this. I know I'll get better again, but a setback like this has me scared that I'm going backwards again.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lesson to the rest of us: never tell anyone your usernames

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A great feature of RES was you could make your username appear as "user" locally. That way, you could browse Reddit in your browser without people around you seeing your username. That'd probably be one of the easier RES features to add here.