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1. Theodora Lau (psb_dc@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Dec-2022 10:44:45 JST Theodora Lau

   • Cory Doctorow

   From @pluralistic -
   What the #fediverse (does/n't) solve

   "Be each other’s pen pals. Talk. Share. Welcome. Care. And just keep moving. Stay nimble. Maybe we have to roll the internet back a little and go back to blogs and decentralized groups and techy fiddling and real-life conventions and idealists with servers in their closets."

   #socialmedia

   https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/23/semipermeable-membranes/

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   • Oh 2 ten (rom@social.lol)'s status on Saturday, 24-Dec-2022 10:44:38 JST Oh 2 ten

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     • Aral Balkan
     • Cory Doctorow

     @psb_dc @pluralistic this! Calling on developers to make their software easier to self-host please. #SmallTech approach, like what @aral has been saying for quite some time already

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 24-Dec-2022 17:56:44 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Cory Doctorow
     • Oh 2 ten
     • wakame

     @wakame Yes, the personal publishing problem was solved by the web circa 1993. It gets a little bit more complicated (but not much) if we want people to be able to communicate privately with each other via their sites. That requires JavaScript so we can keep their secret on their own machine (the client) instead of on a machine that they may or may not have control over (the server). But yes, small is perfectly adequate. See https://codeberg.org/kitten/app

     @rom @psb_dc @pluralistic

   • wakame (wakame@tech.lgbt)'s status on Saturday, 24-Dec-2022 17:56:50 JST wakame

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     • Aral Balkan
     • Cory Doctorow
     • Oh 2 ten

     @rom @psb_dc @pluralistic @aral

     Sorry to slide into a meme, format, I am actually serious:

     You want interactivity? We had that. It was called CGI.

     All you need for a simple guestbook: Throw together a simple script in Python or JavaScript or... BASIC, that writes the guestbook entries into a flat file and you are done.

     Maybe five lines JavaScript in the browser to inject the text into the DOM (or just regenerate your HTML on the server...).

     I mean: It's a markup language, not embedded C.

   • wakame (wakame@tech.lgbt)'s status on Saturday, 24-Dec-2022 17:56:51 JST wakame

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     • Aral Balkan
     • Cory Doctorow
     • Oh 2 ten

     @rom @psb_dc @pluralistic @aral
     IMHO in many cases people just want to build a space rocket where two or three HTML files would do.

     For example, why does every bakery and every barbershop need a Wordpress site? A weird programming language, an editor hosted in your webspace, even a database. How many million page views will a barbershop get that we need a database?

     Similar with static site generators: Maybe we just need to revive something like Frontpage (sorry) for the average Office user.