I don't think there is ever a good time to appropriate the word "refugee" when referring to something as petty as ex-users of [insert stupid social media website here], but if there was ever a bad time to do that, the bad time is now. And yet. Here we are.
By the way, here are some organizations with boots on the ground in Palestine:
Anyone who has been in "small web" spaces has probably heard of the Yesterweb. It seemed like everyone was in their webring (some people still have the defunct widget up, even), and supposedly they were very active in proseltyzing on social media because there's a cutesy infographic page on their website.
I thought the Yesterweb was really annoying, and I didn't agree with what they were on about. Ultimately, though, I thought they were just a harmless clique that I happened to find obnoxious, so I didn't really care.
When I saw they shut down and left a very long postmortem to remember them by, I decided to give the thing a read because I was expecting silly petty internet drama. I love internet drama! And then I ended up getting significantly more than I had mentally prepared myself for. The following is more or less a text version of a stupid Youtube reaction video, so sorry* if you were expecting an eloquent takedown or something.
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