r1y

Flirting with #indieweb again. Learned that some folk are creating "now" pages. Sorta like, you have a contact page and an about page. Now you also have a _now_ page. Its purpose is to tell visitors what this person is focused on at this point in their life. I think its a neat idea - mine = https://roylindauer.com/now

One thing though that I really love is seeing people building retro sites like geocities, but actually way better. Has the aesthetic, but are decent and use web standards đŸ˜‚

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Show threadBryan HaskinNov 5
@r1y ooo I love that idea!
Show threadKhleedrilNov 6

@r1y This is a great idea. You are basically surfacing the 'today' page of a personal journal, and, presumably, you won't throw away old pages so you do in fact end up with a personal journal, whether that is all surfaced or not.

On the whole it represents too much effort/reward for me; perhaps I will implement a month-by-month journal?

Show threadKhleedrilNov 6

@r1y Self-hosting e-mail just needs #exim and #dovecot, both of which are services directly configurable in #guix. The hard part is establishing a new address, and decommissioning the old one.

I've got this exact set-up myself, and give every organization that needs e-mail contact with me a unique, hard to guess, address. But I don't generally advertise myself as available by e-mail, and insist on contact through https://khleedril.org/dale-mellor/contact.

Dale Mellorʼs Contact Page

Show threadsimendsjoNov 6
@khleedril @r1y isn't the biggest problem getting others to trust your mail server? https://cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-twenty-three-years-i-have-thrown-in-the-towel-the-oligopoly-has-won.html
After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel. The oligopoly has won.

Many companies have been trying to disrupt email by making it proprietary. So far, they have failed. Email keeps being an open protocol. Hurray? No hurray. Email is not distributed anymore. You just cannot create another first-class node of this ne

Show threadKhleedrilNov 6

@simendsjo @r1y Nope. In 20 years, I've never had a problem. I've checked on the tester referred to in that article, and I am not blacklisted anywhere.

Maybe I'm just lucky?

Show threadsimendsjoNov 6
@khleedril @r1y no idea, but I've heard about such problems from several sources. I'll keep paying for an external provider, but with a custom domain. I'll sleep better at night :)
Show threadr1yNov 7
@simendsjo @khleedril Yeah there are a lot of trust signals that you need to setup and maintain, and even then you may be at the mercy of Microsofts aggressive spam filtering, for example. Regardless I think its worth doing. And I think its doable. The tradeoffs are worth it to me.
Show threadr1yNov 7
@khleedril awesome! Thanks for sharing!