From 2012 until Facebook shut me down my profile description was:
"I was born. It's been a rollercoaster from there."
Tempting though it is to let those two lines stand in answer to the question in the title, maybe I ought to tell you all a bit about who the hell I think I am, starting a tiny clone of Facebook.
As I write this in March of 2025, I find it hard to pull together someting coherent.
Not because I can't talk about myself, Gods know that is never an issue for me.
Not that I don't have the confidence, inflated as it is, to answer the question. Ego isn't my defining characteristic but it certainly isn't lacking.
I think it's because the scale of what our world has currently become is so great... so overwhelming, it almost makes a joke of even asking.
ALMOST makes a joke.
Because knowing that this "shock and awe" tactic is what they are using to bring us down... that fear that this is something so great it can't be battled, let alone by individuals, disabled people, housewives, students... the little people.
And historically, that simply isn't true. They are counting on us being so swept up in the moment we forget the farmers and slaves and business owners that hid the slaves and got them to the North.
That armed themselves against the British to fight for what was to become this crazy experiment. That then took positions of power to build a new dream.
The French countrymen and towns people who hid the Jews and fought the Germans.
The little people.
....
My name is Rebecca. On the 'net I'm found as Wytchcat. For over a decade I ran a large off grid FB group, as part of my 15 yrs on Facebook.
I say that because most people use Facebook as the first "check" on a person.
You can't do that with me. I had planned to leave Feb 17th, 2025 but 3 days before Facebook decided I had spoken against them one too many times and permenantly deleted my account.
To be fair.. I had already started this site... The Social Place Online. The first part of this site is our Community section. The full FB clone.
My first labor of resistance. My little defiance. It was enough.
I'm a freelance web designer when work comes in the door. I have the tools, the time and motivation. Fuckerberg had bent the knee and kissed the ring and Meta can kiss my ass.
I'm a 57 yr old, partially disabled woman, living on a mountain outside a small red town. Long before the government comes for me, my neighbors are likely to do me in.
I network people together as I can, I share information everywhere it may be of use...
I have a lot more to do but I'll start here... I'll start small.
I'll be one of the little people, helping others connect, organize and resist.
That's who the fuck I think I am... one small piece of the resistance, one new link in a chain strung at neck level of the ravening hoard coming for us.
A little person.
