@valerie You do not have to agree with me. You do not have to agree with what I need to do to survive. Just the fediverse and Bluesky is not enough. I need a web of social media activity everywhere. You are allowed to feel however you want about me, but I will not accept the statement that I do not belong here. Mastodon is the community that keeps me sane in my isolated life. You are not me, so you don’t understand the dire circumstances I am in, and you don’t need to agree with my doing what it takes to survive. I am the only one that runs my business by myself. I am the one who has to pull off a miracle. It’s easy to sit from the outside and judge someone you do not know and declare they should be ashamed of themselves for doing the necessary parts of running a business. I do not need to apologize to anyone for that.