Dan @dan@social.privacytools.io

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"A defiant Manning told Judge Anthony Trenga in a federal district court in Alexandria, Virginia, that she would “rather starve to death” than do what the state insisted and give testimony before the grand jury."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/16/chelsea-manning-jailed-again-as-she-refuses-to-testify-before-grand-jury

Honestly i kinda just wish we could take the formats that social media platforms present more seriously. Twitter makes people terse and give a lot of pauses, tumblr encourages collaborative posting for better (building upon something OP has said either for comedy or for the betterment of the message) and worse (public mockery of the OP, possibly for something they really shouldn't be mocked for). Mastodon is less terse but still encourages people to still make a lot of content inappropriate for it because its so seemingly central to discussion for them. Threads are also Opt-in so there is an improvement because twitter because it makes broadcasting posts people hate higher effort and it doesn't encourage you to riff on a poster for funny man points (people do anyways because we've been taught to do that tho).

Pleroma is Mastodon if I had quite a lot of words, this post is already past 2k characters. I can really express myself on this platform. Its not perfect because it does broadcast peoples replies to the federated/public timeline which can be an information overload and it can encourage you to get involved in discussions (for again, better and worse).

Being tired is not a badge of honor. It doesn't make you more worthy, it just means you're tired.

also the way mastodon (and i believe pleroma) hide content besides notes (what AP calls short form formatted text) on the timeline to a link does sites hosting platforms like write.freely so dirty. You're making the content require you to leave the platform to even sample properly. A little teaser of what the post is about couldn't hurt. God there are so many cool ways you could show this. I esp blame Pleroma because that wide ass single column could be very good for displaying a write.freely post.