Océane (@oceane)

So I've had it with people mistaking colonialism for fascism. Its a critical error that colonized people will suffer the most from. If this tide cresting tide of reactionary power is repulsed our "Allies" will largely abandon us to die fighting the anticolonial socialist liberation struggle, while they hi five & live comfortable lives off our suffering & damn us for fuccing up the vibes as happened post WWII-1960s and on, demanding we "go slow" & accept incrementalism.
Gonna try writing about it

I have only 3 writing styles, blunt, legalistic, and insulting. Generally all abrasive, sometimes humorous.

The intent will be not necessarily to "say something new" but to rub folks noses in material reality, pointing to the fact that the world we're witnessing is this way because of colonialism and misidentification of the problem will mean we will be unable to solve it once and for all.

That said do my moots have recommendations for instance without character limits?

Idk if actually having a blog and making it one more clicc away is worth anyone's time, its a thing I want feed bacc on so might as well have it on a social platform

@NoFlexZone Do you run Linux? Many solutions for your use case won't work on Windows; if you don't you'll have to fallback on the Web 2.

This being said, Ghost is easy peasy to self-host and integrates ActivityPub. WordPress is crap, but it offers a solid bridge for its free tier… I have no idea how tech fluent you are.

@oceane I do run linux, Im getting into self hosting, I self host some of my network services and run the basics on foss software, and I build pcs and stuff. I work in IT

Ill look into those. I'd been starting to kicc around seriously idea of running a single user instance, but I have other projects higher on my list rn. Thanks for the rec!

@NoFlexZone Cool. Apostrophe, then pandoc it to LaTeX, make it a PDF, and publish it either on Ghost/WordPress or on any microblogging instance?

We offer 3,000 characters limits but @tournesol is accessible and could probably tweak it overnight (he doesn't have to, but I expect he'd be fine with it). retro.social offers 10,000 characters limits, which as you may know isn't much.

To my understanding, honk (e.g. on tedu's own instance or on honk.hmm.st) has no characters limits. No favs/boosts/followers stats either though.

Something nifty with AP is that you can e.g. post something from Ghost, mention a Threadiverse community in the title, and have the post federate on "Mastodon" and on "Lemmy".

My reason to suggest you making a PDF with it is so your readers can print it and read it more comfortably. It's a good thing for accessibility. If you wished to you could send me the .tex file and let me arrange it (maybe reformulate a few portions for purely technical reasons) so you could publish both, e.g. as an attachment to your blog post.

It could also be easy to script posting it paragraph after paragraph. I'm not sure I'd know how to do it but I'm in a tech union, so I could try to find someone willing to help us.

@oceane @tournesol oooh okay, I have moots hittin me up rn with recs so gonna sift thru all my options but this is very helpful tysm

@tournesol @NoFlexZone @Enfeetamine Yes I see. Honestly I may end up blocking Kolektiva, they're always splaining me in a vaguely passive-offensive way

@tournesol @NoFlexZone @Enfeetamine Might check my followers and tell them to move to better instances but losing this instance would be an overall improvement

@oceane @NoFlexZone @Enfeetamine I don't straight up block the instance cause I don't see the moderation doing a bad job, they just agglomerate a weird passive-agressive crowd indeed

@oceane @NoFlexZone btw I don't intend to increase post limit cause it's already damn high and I don't intend to make peculiar a blog but you have WriteFreely instances that could help on that regard !

@NoFlexZone
If you're already into self-hosting you might also want to have a look at WriteFreely, an ActivityPub-centric blogging engine that federates by default. The blog sites it produces are very minimal, with none of the bloat and neoliberal "marketplace" baggage of WordPress

writefreely.org

@oceane

@NoFlexZone I'm dead serious about it, we should run our own Ghost instances for marginalized people (e.g. queer or PoC). If you'd find some use case for it/promote it, I could arrange something with a local associative VPS provider. I'm not sure how long it would take though.