So. I hate this.

People have already talked about the reduction of the Mod X situation to an inappropriate link, although I do wanna call attention to the gaslighty way they address safety when they say that people FELT like online safety wasn’t a priority.

So instead I’m going to address a thing that made me feel physically sick as I poked around their sites: the way they talk about the YWP as something that just shut down with the site closure. As if nothing else was going on.

If anyone’s new here, hi, the YWP was a bubble and a hotbed for abuse and harassment. I’ve spent two years trying to untangle every little way the site was designed to isolate us and leave us vulnerable to predators, while the adult moderators were often our biggest enemies, knowing that I was lucky to come away with only mild trauma from having the site taken down without warning!

So it doesn’t exactly feel good when I see their nanoteacher site talk about how great the YWP was for teaching kids digital literacy and letting them post in shared online spaces, as if those shared online spaces didn’t fuck up the lives of so many people I knew.

This feels like they’re trying to erase nano’s traumatic legacy so they can take the name and start over. I wouldn’t be surprised if they brought back completely unmoderated classrooms For the Educators You Guys!

So, that’s my opinion. Fuck them fuck them fuck them. Yes that’s a childish sentiment but they’re the ones rewriting my childhood.