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09:48 prologic_ https://writefreely.org/
09:48 prologic_ This looks really interesting. So much so I could probably get on board with this
09:48 prologic_ It has all the features I want: decentralized, federated, privacy focused
09:49 pdurbin Huh, a federated blog.
09:50 pdurbin reminds me a bit of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallest_Federated_Wiki
09:51 prologic_ yeah
09:51 prologic_ its intruging enough for me to spin this thing up
09:51 prologic_ and give it a serious go
09:51 prologic_ everything else I've found are either immature  or buggy
09:51 pdurbin and it's written in go, which is a win for us :)
09:51 prologic_ this is well polished but still open source and you can run it yourself
09:51 prologic_ yeap
09:51 prologic_ the nice thing is they also have hosted versions too
09:52 prologic_ for the lazy and/or non-tech savvy
09:52 prologic_ $1/month is not a lot to ask
09:52 pdurbin nope
09:54 pdurbin I still haven't really committed to the fediverse. I created an account on the flagship Mastodon server about a year ago (while at LibrePlanet 2018) and I PM people on there sometimes but I haven't tooted yet. I'm trying to figure out how much I want to self-host. Right now I run some static sites, philbot, and weechat. Pretty light.
09:57 prologic_ *nods*
09:57 prologic_ I'm going to give this a try and see how it goes
09:57 prologic_ I prefer to self-host everythiung and have prologic.shortcircuit.net.au
09:57 prologic_ but I write very little and find it tedious in between work and family life
09:57 prologic_ this Writefreely software may encourage me to write small tid bits more often
09:58 pdurbin Nice. I'd like to write more. Have you seen my latest sloppy writing effort? :)
11:01 prologic_ pdurbin I have not  :/
11:01 prologic_ and that's what I think makes something like Writefreely so attractive
11:02 prologic_ I get to follow you :)
11:02 prologic_ Without all the crap that is Twitter or Facebook and supported by a BS business model of serving you ads, wher eyou have no control over your own data, etc, etc, et
11:10 pdurbin prologic: mostly I've just been hacking on a README. I'd love to hear what you think: https://github.com/good-labs/slopi-communication
11:11 * prologic reads
11:14 prologic hmm
11:14 prologic this is interesting stuff
11:14 prologic and totally makes sense -- for FOSS especially
11:14 pdurbin yeah, the focus is FOSS projects
11:17 prologic *nods*
11:18 pdurbin It's sort of the start of a bigger idea.
11:18 pdurbin Well, some related ideas.
11:18 pdurbin I'm thinking that open source projects should favor communicating in public.
11:19 pdurbin And they should either self host everything or do some "data liberation" of their messages on Google Groups or whatever else they use.
11:20 pdurbin And then they should consider indexing all that data into a project-specific search engine. Solr or ElasticSearch or whatever. And offer this search to their community.
11:20 pdurbin It wouldn't be hard to improve on the Gitter search experience. But first you need to liberate the data and index it.
13:32 prologic https://blog.mills.io/
13:32 prologic so far so good
13:57 dotplus oooh, writefreely looks very promising to me. I've brainstormed several ideas/writing prompts this year, but haven't gotten around to writing most of them up into full articles (even draft quality, let alone publishable). One of the reasons is that I want a) easy workflow, b) (reasonably) pleasant presentation, c) portability/trivial selfhosting.
20:54 prologic dotplus yeah me too
20:54 prologic And I think writegreely ticks all the boxes for me
20:54 prologic and you
22:30 pdurbin prologic: can I subscribe to your blog from mastodon?

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