I don't even know how to talk to people online anymore.

In my subjective experience, just in the last week alone I've been feeling something close to OP and commenting on random stuff here and there. Sub did not matter, subject matter light or heavy didn't matter, people just come and brigade the shit out of anything I've said. So I delete and delete, and post a vent or depression and delete, and I keep coming back to the idea that it can't just be me, people have this crazy hostile energy and I am too sensitive and wary now to want to overcome this little bit of loneliness for anonymous connection. If all I get is gaslit and invalidated, even on fucking recreation topics it's just not worth it to participate in anything.

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