From www.tumblr.com/presentlydea... - I miss you, lost friends. I hope the sun is shining on your face, wherever you are. - ThreadSky

jaql.bsky.social • 74 days ago

From https://www.tumblr.com/presentlydean/746783955564527616/online-communities-are-so-strange-because-people -

I miss you, lost friends. I hope the sun is shining on your face, wherever you are.

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ibolt07.bsky.social•74 days ago

Chepi Coyote ;~; I hope they are doing well!

daringflash.bsky.social•73 days ago

god hits home like i wwish i could re establish contact with some i lost like i have had a friend who wwas a great artist just go silent unfriend me and leave with no prior issues i wonder wwhat happend

thependrake.bsky.social•66 days ago

I found you again because of this skeet

darklyadapted.bsky.social•74 days ago

This is why, when a cousin of mine died, I asked his executors to put a post up (on the birdsite) explaining what had happened. It is dreadful when people just vanish.

isaaccahn.bsky.social•69 days ago

i cried about this thought a few nights ago. not fun.

doctorwednesday.bsky.social•74 days ago

I often wonder where all those people I used to know have gone, and if they ever think about that time in their life which I was a part of.

unusacies.bsky.social•73 days ago

I still remember people I met in one of my first forum experiences in the early 2000s, I see them from time to time, some still active, some only as the ocs they had at the time, drawn in art I made, or saved from them... I miss a few of 'em even if we have not interacted in a decade and a half lol

thedigodragon.bsky.social•73 days ago

One of the members in my online D&D group disappeared shortly after we wrapped up a fun campaign together. It was about... 3 years back? Great friend and player. We still keep his account active in our group, hoping maybe he'll return to us for another adventure.

jackalopezone.neocities.org•74 days ago

Feeling so much of this in my soul

afuzzygal.bsky.social•73 days ago

One time a guy who was instrumental in me figuring out my gender got gotten by a discord scammer and disappeared from my life for over half a year. It was so surreal

hazelthewitch.bsky.social•49 days ago

Just went to look at a dead account I had on Imgflip of all places. Damn, it's been so fucking long. Hope the guys there are doing ok.

balloonie-cat.bsky.social•49 days ago

I'm not crying! YOU'RE CRYING 😭

pacipup.bsky.social•73 days ago

There's a lot of friends I miss, I hope they know I still check up on them from time to time

dannybones.bsky.social•49 days ago

This thread made me go visit an old Gamefaqs board I used to log into 20 times a day. So many friendships were had on that board. Just went back to see what was there. It was a liminal experience seeing threads from 15 years ago. Surprisingly there was post from a year ago.

uhhicantexplain.bsky.social•74 days ago

📌

camillalookalike.bsky.social•74 days ago

Still here friend.

liznugent.bsky.social•73 days ago

Oh I feel this.

raillemiel.bsky.social•73 days ago

Wow, thought I was the only sappy, melodramatic one for feeling all this but I’m glad to see this is not an uncommon experience

tribbletron.bsky.social•73 days ago

This feeling is a studied phenomenon. I first learned of it in college, but the concept was coined in 1956: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasocial_interaction

raillemiel.bsky.social•72 days ago

Yes this concept is very much prevalent now with everyone engaging with at least some sort of a phantasmic persona across the screen…I was thinking along the lines of limerence being the actual precarious concept

alectoerinys.bsky.social•73 days ago

All of this. So true.

jjdebenedictis.bsky.social•69 days ago

Well, that one resonated (in a heart-ouchy, earnest way), especially after all the people I simply lost when we left The Bad Place.

Some came here, but some slipped away to do other things, and I honestly miss them.

catladybel.bsky.social•73 days ago

I really wish I could find all my old LiveJournal friends from the 90s and early 2000s again. I barely remember them but I wonder how their lives turned out.

steviesskivvies.bsky.social•73 days ago

I futility search for them sometimes, hoping for some reason they'll use their old username on something sometime. Never works but I always hope just a little bit

blackjackgabbiani.bsky.social•72 days ago

May as well try to send them a message on there, just in case they use the same email.

wolfofthenyght.bsky.social•72 days ago

Yep... haven't heard from one friend in about... 13yrs now? She had a stroke at a young age & I never heard frlm her again. I remember telling her that evening to get up & get water & shit... I know she survived cause talked to her bro a couple years later.. but.. yea.. She'll forever be on my-

wolfofthenyght.bsky.social•72 days ago

friend list on steam.. and I hope I have a chance to chat w/her again some day 😔

gravitybreak.media•73 days ago

there's a lot said about how fucked up and atomizing online interactions are, but nobody talks about the beautiful side of them. this is nice

kokoronashiraptor.bsky.social•74 days ago

God does this hurt...

blackjackgabbiani.bsky.social•72 days ago

@diamonddusted.bsky.social

diamonddusted.bsky.social•71 days ago

Awwwwww, Blackjack! I’m so sorry if I was like that for you too😭 Or anyone, I confess I never imagined things from the other side, or I guess, never actually thought anyone would miss me. I’ll try never to do that again, and I’m so happy to talk to you again now❤️

blackjackgabbiani.bsky.social•71 days ago

💖

dmuth.bsky.social•74 days ago

This hits me right in the feels.

warlic.bsky.social•73 days ago

Hope Maîtresse Strawberry, Sir Lieutenant, Tesarand, and Emelio are doing well.

elliekupo.bsky.social•74 days ago

I have been thinking about old friends recently. Ones that used to be so close. Would they even recognize the person I am now? I still love all my old friends and would happily have them back. Do they feel the same? Wherever they may be today, I hope they are happy and well.

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