This Saturday, the 24th, will mark exactly three years since I ran away from home to join the Fediverse!

[alice@lgbtqia.space]

This Saturday, the 24th, will mark exactly three years since I ran away from home to join the Fediverse!

In the 1095 days betwixt, I have learned a ton from y'all, grown so much as a person, had a bunch of adventures, and changed most of my life

Some of the highlights were:
- ⚧️ discovering I'm nonbinary
- surviving a suicide attempt
- 🧠 writing a cool paper on autism diagnosis
- ‍️ leaving my abusive marriage
- ️‍🩹 doing suicide prevention check-ins with folx
- becoming an adult content creator
- dating a few Fedi folx
- ️ meeting my two amazing partners
- becoming RedTeamTools' brand ambassador
- making the TeslaFire emoji
- meeting like 100 Fedi folx IRL
- saving a cat
- 🩸 paying a street medic's medical bills
- ️‍ founding @AltAfterDark
- saving a couple big fish from a net
- 🩹 helping multiple people recover from surgeries
- 🤯 being followed by over 7000 of you
- 🫠 getting fan art & music from y'all
- learning electric guitar & bass

And *all*¹ of those were only possible because of you. Thank you. Thank you so, so much.

¹ I'm sure this list is missing a ton of things ²
² I'm running out of emoji

(way more than) #ThreeGoodThings #Gratitude #Fediversary #ThankYou

[kwayk42@sechtor.social]

@alice @AltAfterDark

[brass75@twit.social]

@alice *1096 days. There was a leap year. (Sorry. I can be a pedantic ass.)

[jadus_developus@transfem.social]

@alice@lgbtqia.space @AltAfterDark@masto.thefword.club All of us are very glad you have been doing quite well, continue to beat the odds and do what you love doing the most.

[tattered@social.vivaldi.net]

@alice @AltAfterDark Awesome list! You’re an inspiration!

[bthylafh@nerdculture.de]

@alice @AltAfterDark

[alice@lgbtqia.space]

@brass75 I don't observe leap day, it's too political.

[brass75@twit.social]

@alice It observes you.

[pussreboots@sfba.social]

@alice @AltAfterDark I am glad to have found you on the Fediverse.

[kimlockhartga@beige.party]

@alice @AltAfterDark We love you!

[paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange]

@alice

change and support really are transformative. kule you have learned so many things about yourself and found ways to move forward in positive ways. congrats!

[alice@lgbtqia.space]

Oh yeah, also:

- tirelessly promoted sex workers' rights
- created the biggest STEM-girls threads on Fedi
- 🥢 showed folx how to thwart cheese powder
- took down multiple fashy websites
- welcomed hundreds of folx to LGBTQIA.space
- banned numerous CSAM & Nazi servers
- taught a bunch of folx to pick locks

[vgarzareyna@mstdn.mx]

@alice @AltAfterDark wait, people in here actually date!? now i feel like im missing out

[maddad@mastodon.world]

@alice @AltAfterDark

Happy aniversary 🤩

[dragonfrog@mastodon.sdf.org]

@alice wait, "thwart cheese powder"?

I know what each of those words means in isolation, but I'm drawing a total blank on the three together as a predicate.

[wanderinghermit@mindly.social]

@alice

You rock! Thanks for being here. {hugs}

[jorsh@beige.party]

@alice @AltAfterDark

You make the Fediverse just that much cooler and beautiful. Lots of love! ️

[bob_zim@infosec.exchange]

@alice Squashed a bunch of bots distributing intimate imagery and/or porn non-consensually.

[alice@lgbtqia.space]

@vgarzareyna oh, totally! Fedi is hands down the best dating app I've ever used

I've been on quite a few dates with Fedi folx, slept with 8-10, met both my current partners through here, and (depending on how you count "having sex") had sex with up to a hundred or so ‍️

[alice@lgbtqia.space]

@dragonfrog I eat messy foods like Cheetos, Doritos, Cheese Puffs, etc with chopsticks.

Every time I mention it or share a photo of it I get like a dozen people going 🤯 how did I never think of that??