Coralie @globcoco@social.cleverlibre.org
Joined Jun 2020
Coralie
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Here is a lovely picture from my trip to Yellowstone. This Elk was about 15 feet in front of me and didnt really care much about me it seemed.
@freemo @design_RG @zleap
I really understand why people who has dev competencies would go git.
And i also understand the benefits of it. There are plenty but as @design_RG said when you are not as fluent and you want to write smthg easy to deal with might be where you want to be OR it might also be a stepping stone to learn more.
Some like @DavidBlue who is quite confident still feel happy to use such a system for ease of use.
They might have other websites too on other CMS-frameworks... but I guess at the end of the day the most important is to use a tool you are actually pleased to use.
Btw, David had a chat with @cjeller on that subject:
https://write.as/community/chat-with-david-blue
Coralie
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More or less, let me clarify:
- I have installed a Write.freely instance in one of the systems here in the house, yes.
- There is NO cost for that other than your time to learn how to do it.
- My personal instance is NOT federated, although it could be if desired; it's one of the options in admin panel.
Why not publish directly from here?
- I could, and actually have spare full blown Servers on hand, Rackmounted Dell Powerservers.
- but that takes time, electricity, and they are production machines. Loud and not so nice to stay around. 😛
- it also bring bi security implications, because now you could become a target to the scum around the dark corners of the Net.
So it would need to be more than a Hobby reason. I think these systems might someday have use, if we have some kind of breakdown, I could become part of a local Library -- all kinds of content in the Net would vanish, and only local resources would be available.
I do read a lot of sci-fi, and Dystopic scenarios are possible.
I am thinking specifically of the "World Made by Hand" series of novels by James Howard Kunstler. His home and the novel's location is not too far from me -- I have travelled there by bicycle touring. 😺
@design_RG @freemo @zleap
Nice.
So the idea of having it home means that your content is safe if something happened?
And for your non-federated personal instance can a basic computer do?
I think storm is there and I might have to stop the web while it passes.
We'll see how it goes.
Thanks for the ref 👍
That is an interesting way.
If I understand it well;
You have a private instance you're paying for and when you're ready to publish you go onto TeDomum?
May I ask why you don't publish straight off your own instance?
Coralie
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People don't seem to know about it, I would promote locally, however there are too many freeloaders, who also then try and take credit for something I have told them about, I am not ego driven but it would be nice if they gave me some sort of credit.
I was asked months ago at a children's partnership meeting re websites, i sent the lady some info on where people could learn HTML/ CSS etc, I followed up, and they got one of their volunteers to do it, adj it was almost like , thank you now go away sort of attitude, people don't appreciate the amount of work that goes in to collating information for this.
Maybe I am just some mug that gets taken advantage of.
I generally share with people on a 1-2-1 with people who I know appreciate my suggestion to use something.
Coralie
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@design_RG @freemo @zleap @linuxine
I certainly think there could be a niche in there!!!
@freemo @zleap @design_RG @linuxine
I wish I had your orientation 😜
@design_RG @freemo @zleap @linuxine
We have to make the best of it.
Her blog is fun and she talks about her migration from wp to pluxml:
https://blog.linuxine.net/article10/migration-du-blog-sous-pluxml
Coralie
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If you are a Writer, your primary focus should be on that; on paper, on web, on ebook, but Content Production supercedes time learning publishing platforms.
We can help each other -- Ange's WF manual, the awesome MarkDown tutorial, an upcoming tool kit post for myself.
These can shorten the learning path to productive postign for new people, and we can see more people getting into it.
The number of accounts in WF instances is surprisingly low, considering how good the platform is, that it's free and easily accessed.
Time to change that!
@zleap @freemo @design_RG
I was looking also at skillcrush but i stopped b/c outside of the gafams nothing else were shown... or even talked about.
@zleap @freemo @design_RG
I know and that can be so annoying as even with good people doing great things they think that the gafams are the only way or that one needs to be a tech - geek - nerd 😲...
It is something that I want from myself: as much as I can and in the best of my abilities: feel aligned in what I do.
Not always easy but so gratifying when I do!
@freemo @zleap @design_RG
That goes way against free and or open source mindset.
Again where is the ethic😞?
@zleap @design_RG @freemo
Gosh I completely agree with you.
That is one the reasons it was hard for me to finally get to it!
Because of that I felt quite dumb...
There is also Pluxml.
@linuxine talked to me about it.
@freemo @design_RG @zleap
Got it!
Saw it in Qoto - not in Pinafore.
Thanks
@zleap @design_RG @freemo
I was wondering why would one need that?
For safety reason?
@design_RG @freemo @zleap
Actually I still don't knwo how to turn it off.
It sems that it is on according to the "1st" post being written.
Keep on searching...
Joined Jun 2020
