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after all the months of waiting, i finally got an account export data from vent. it could have been done so much faster if not for the fact that the owner, Jamie Druitt, decided not to process initial request after the app survived afterall. the new, manual request, which i learned about Randomly ONLY THIS WEEK took two days and now i can safely delete this cursed app from my phone.
will i miss posting there? probably a little, considering i spent my time venting ever since the beginning of 2019. but the moderation is... questionable at best. and it's been only going downhill. i've met some really cool people in the last couple of months, but it wasn't really enough for me to stay. in the end, i am happy to make this my primary social media now. maybe it will encourage me to write more than just two sentences every so often. i feel more justified to infodump too! maybe i can pick up writing again as well.
more modern social media feels more like fastfood to me anyway. i have a lot of things i want to share, but i've never felt comfortable writing paragraphs on vent, knowing nobody will read them anyway. in comparison, my physical diaries were LONG, i could write ten pages a day. and having the perceived time and space to expand my thoughts was really helpful with reflecting on things too.
i hope all the cool people (my mutuals!!) i left on vent will be doing well.
i'm excited to improve and expand this blog in the forseeable future :) and meet new people as well!
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Hazel
Congratulations! Funnily enough, I had downloaded the app a week ago, now I have mixed feelings...
I'd just discovered the app, and it's not as terrible as the other apps I tried. But I understand what you're saying. Half of the time there are way too many NSFW posts that make me feel like it's a dating app.
I'm interested in what the account export data means? Was there a reason why you didn't delete the app first? Or is that the process for deleting an account?
I've been on vent for over four years so i have grown quite attached to the app. it changed owners a bunch of times, but the latest owner has been pissing me off the most. while other owners could be dismissed by corpos not caring at all, his team has been really malicious and incompetent so far. there has been an increased tolerance for pedos and bigots on the platform, while trying to sweep it under the rug. the way they handle feedback and informing the users about their decisions is really poor too.
account data export refers to an excel file containing all of my posts and comments made since the moment i made the account. i did not want to leave without it, because there are years of my life recorded on Vent, and i would have hated to just abandon it, especially since it has been a turbulent, transformative and traumatizing period of my late adolescence/early adulthood. now that i have my posts archived outside of the app, there isn't a lot tying me to it anymore.
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