Re; The Indie Web Is Not Defined by Its Enemies

https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/re-the-indie-web-is-not-defined-by-its-enemies/

Basketball Deserves Its Own Platform
Every other sport has fragmented spaces — we built one hub for it all.
Players, pros, and hoopers everywhere finally have a digital home.
This is CourtMapping.

#CourtMapping #BasketballHub #BasketballPlatform #DigitalHome #UniteTheGame

🌐 #Mastodon and the #Fediverse offer a unique, decentralized alternative to traditional #socialmedia.

❓ We’d love to hear from you: When did you join Mastodon or the Fediverse, and what motivated you to become a #Fedizen?

🌟 Was it #privacy concerns, #algorithmfree timelines, or the welcoming #community? Maybe you’re seeking #digitalindependence or escaping #corporateinfluence?

💬 Tell us your #story: Why did you choose the Fediverse as your #digitalhome? Your experience matters!

I opened X a few days ago to check my profile. Instead of taking me to my profile (I have a special social browser profile where I stay logged in), X told me that I was suspicious and made me complete two very annoying CAPTCHAs to prove I was a person. After getting back into my account, I was told to review X’s rules (no clue as to what “rule” was violated). Then I had to log out and in again to interact with the UI. Everything was back to normal the next day. I only use X to post links to my articles (which is similar to how I use Mastodon, Bluesky, Minds, and NOSTR), so “losing” the account would not have been a serious problem like being blacklisted by Bing for the better part of a year was. But consider my story a cautionary tale for anyone who relies on third-party social media platforms (open source, proprietary, or other) as their primary or, worse yet, sole online presence. Focus on building your online home and then use third-party social media to invite others to visit.

https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/x-thinks-im-suspicious/

#digitalHome #XSocialMedia_

Goal:
Untangle my computer use from any commercial/capitalist presets...

https://xkcd.com/743/
https://mastodon.social/@mcc/109683380376727036

For 2023 a #LibreComputer AML-S905X-CC (#LePotato) (2GB) is my personal base level hardware platform

Anything I develop/make has to be usable on the current base level hardware platform

https://toadwater.net/Permacomputing.html

http://viznut.fi/texts-en/

"A useful frame of mind is thinking about your computer as offline first. You work with your computer and occasionally have network access. This usually means having data locally and occasionally synchronizing it with others."

#LocalFirst #OfflineFirst
#FrugalComputing #SustanableComputing #NetZeroComputing

Expect to run zsh, X11, openbox(?), Emacs, terminal, neomutt, newsboat, mastodon?, tor, i2p?

Test if Gnome is usable... ? xfce? CDE? is GnuStep still active? no desktop?

Get used to do #Email, #UseNet, #Gopher, #IRC, #RSS in #terminal or #Emacs

Use #Emacs and #TeΧ to write (dead tree) letters and missives (PDF?)

Maybe do more in #RawText?

Do callender things again on paper/pencil, #43folders, Whiteboard, etc.. physical things

Expand use of Gopher, Gemini, IndieWeb?

IM.. #XMPP via Dino? +OMEMO

Find a sustainable open source alternative for keybase? Or develop a distributed alternative using tor or i2p? Trust via FOAF?

Develop in #Pascal, #Lisp, #Ruby, #Haskell, #Scheme, #Forth :D

#DigitalBarn
#DigitalShed?

Keep repositories in #mercurial,
maybe source hut?

#DigitalDorm?

Find an #anonymous #pseudonymous hosting solution... shell account?... like rawtext.club, tildeverse.org, sdf.org .. ...my own?

Get a low power #amd64 box? bc too many FOSS projects are still not platform independent & x86 only v.v

Optimize to run many VMs?

Maybe can run #android in VM and run banking, insurance, and other apps there? Otherwise maybe get an used M1 mac and run the #iOS apps? perhaps some <100 euro android phones will do as well? otherwise get an iPad mini and use that for the next 5-6 yrs

Maybe set up a #FileServer (#NAS?) maybe even network boot? and perhaps even a #Postgresql database? Is having SQL DB available on the local network going to be useful? What about other databases?

#DigitalStreams (#FediVerse?)

#DigitalCampfires (#Tumblr? Blogs?)

#DigitalGardens
(#Wiki?)

https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history

https://tomcritchlow.com/2018/10/10/of-gardens-and-wikis/

https://wiki.c2.com/?WikiGardener

https://joelhooks.com/digital-garden

Bring #DigitalGardens to the "#TheDarkNet" and set up basecamp there, #tor onion services, a p2p chat/IM app, etc.. also explore #i2p and see how to simplify using it.

#DigitalHome?
(Tilde?)

Get back into #AI (but forget Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Innocence?) I want Augmented Intelligencekm

Explore as many other fun projects as well ... Who knows, I might like them and use them more often...
eg: #Guix #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #Minix #RiscV #Plan9 (#9Front) #RedoxOS #SmallTalk (#Pharo) #GoLang #RetroComputing #System7 #RiscOS #HaikuOS #Forth #Microcontrollers #68K #MIPS #PowerPC #HomeBrewComputer

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Emacs is such a wonderful candidate for a "Digital Home" - a place for one to "live" in the digital world. Are there any other tools that compete with it? Even if they fail to provide a sensible extension dsl, are there any "alternatives" in the wild?

#askfedi #emacs #alternatives #digitalhome