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@gaditb yeah what really irked me about Mastodon is Crumbling was that she was like “queer users on mastodon say this!” without like… mentioning… that category included her…?

(i was also irked because she cited mourning mastodon but only spoke to shel and not me lmao; like you could have done a little followup work there)

[this isn't shade at shel but them being chosen as the mouthpiece of Queer Mastodon felt a bit journalistically sus and nepotistic to me; they had no real credentials for that position over (long list of other people active in early mastodev or glitchsoc) [also it hasn't aged well]]

anyway don't take this as stronger than it is; i'm not calling the piece bunk or anything, but i definitely felt like some things could have been done better

@gaditb my impression of Ana’s coverage is that she largely leaned on Popular Users to make her points instead of discussing her own experiences as a user on the platform, which to me lacked journalistic integrity and speaking personally was not the kind of coverage i would have liked to see

i agree that it was still better than a lot of the coverage happening today, but just once i would like to see someone talking about Mastodon who actually has some experience in ethnography 😩

@gaditb i disagree pretty strongly but you should check out https://privacy.thenexus.today/mastodon-a-partial-history/

in the latter case you might need to come up with a new word for what you are

in the former case at least you can claim the label “woman” without feeling like you're capitulating

would you rather have trauma from not being seen as a girl or trauma from being seen as one

i am not a furry artist

the phrases do not necessarily describe me

i feel like i should disclaimer that when i post a phrase it’s usually because i want to eat it

neither romantic nor friendly

learning to swim

crujiente

this would be okay because the social media site would be federated

if i was the admin of a social media site, i would run a poll asking if people wanted me in charge, and then ban everyone who said “No”

no, that post is Too Cringe

this is not tea it is instant spiced apple cider

look it's Hallmark season okay