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Kostyn

To the tune of "move! that! car!": "read! this! book!"

Check out my review: "Fuck “Sustainable Development Goals,” have y’all ever heard of Communism?: Reviewing Kōhei Saitō’s Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto" on my blog!

You can follow the blog here: @kostyn.ca

kostyn.ca/fuck-sustainable-dev

kostyn.caFuck “Sustainable Development Goals,” have y’all ever heard of Communism?: Reviewing Kōhei Saitō’s Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto – kostyn.ca
#books#BookReview#bookstodon
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BellingenNSW

"The blogosphere
could be a modern realisation of Jürgen Habermas’s idea of “the public sphere” because it was open to all, everything was discussable and social rank didn’t determine who was allowed to speak. But..the speed and comprehensiveness that tech corporations such as Google and Facebook would enclose that public sphere with their own walled gardens in which “free speech” could be algorithmically curated while the speakers were intensively surveilled and their data mined for advertising purposes."
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theguardian.com/commentisfree/
#blogosphere #SocialMedia #WalledGarden #fiefdom #PublicSphere #Agora #writing #CounterPublics #SocietalDebates #Commons #OpenSource

The Guardian · The blogosphere is in full bloom. The rest of the internet has wiltedBy John Naughton
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wikiyu

What is a blog?
What makes a website - blog?

Is it writing new content in some (random) intervals on time with articles about (random) stuff and with dates? And with main page containing list of all blogposts with titles and dates?

Or sth else?
Because it looks like blog is just a website not about any topic but about author? I dont know. What does makes a website blog... ?

#blog#blogosphere#philisophy
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fLaMEd

🔖 New bookmark: The “golden era” of blogging

🔗 hey.georgie.nu/golden-era-blog

> During the golden era of blogging, authenticity was paramount, and connections were formed through genuine storytelling and shared experiences rather than metrics and algorithms.

A stroll down memory lane on how blogging used to be

🔥 flamedfury.com/bookmarks/the-g

hey.georgie.nuThe “golden era” of bloggingI’ve been blogging for a couple of decades now, and things are definitely not what they used to be. Come down memory lane with me.
#blogging#blogosphere#blogginghistory
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Dani Sancas :python: :ferris:

@dHeinemann @kev In my case I have a blog with Zola (Rust SSG) and all I do is edit Markdown files, push changes to git and then CI/CD takes care of everything. I usually edit on the laptop, but I also can do it by visiting GitHub on my phone (not as comfortable as the laptop, but totally doable).

Just throwing you some ideas, keep the #blogosphere alive! 😉

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Stuffed Crocodile

This time a few more links than last week. Maybe even too many this time.

News

Reprint of Shadowrun 1st edition in the works (enworld)

Random Tables

d100 – Weird and Whimsical Wants for Fickle Fey (d4 Caltrops)

100 Interesting Rumors (Or Potential Plot Hooks!) (OSRVault)

Cult generator – D66 Cult names, heraldry and goals! (Dawnfist Games)

Thought

“Played by friends, not strangers” (Grognardia)

I Love Underused Monsters (Tales of the Lunar Lands)

The Ten Commandments of D&D (Grognardia)

My original fantasy sandbox: ICE’s Middle-earth (Akratic Wizardry)

What Choose-Your-Adventure Books Can Teach Game Masters About Pacing and Decisions (DMDavid)

GMing with Joy: GM Tools That Can Last a Lifetime (enworld)

On Hobby Best Practices – Part 1 and Part 2 and Part 3 (Gorgon Bones)

Rereading OD&D: Back to the Start (Coins & Scrolls)

Mystifying and Dangerous (Grognardia)

GM Aid

The Quantum Goodbye Letter (Dice Goblin)

Writing Dungeons Without Dice (Playful Void)

Dolmenwood Dozen (d4 Caltrops)

The BECMI reaction table (Methods & Madness)

Scribes (Dice Goblin)

Magic

Yet another magic system: Chaotic Spells and Strange Charms (Tabletop Curiosity Cabinet)

Encounters

D66 Astral plane encounters (Dawnfist Games)

Friday Encounter: Peryton Party (Tales of the Lunar Lands)

Friday Encounter: Mistaken Identity (Tales from the Lunar Lands)

Terrain

Dungeon Stackers and Triangular Dungeon Stackers (The Might Be Gazebos!)

Monsters

CYTHRONS (from 2000AD’s Slaine) – Monster for Old School Fantasy & Horror (Shuttered Room)

Traveller

Right On Commander! (Elite ships for Traveller)

Papercraft

Niederkassel Dice Tower (papermau)

Sericulture Farmhouse At The Foot Of Mount Gassan (papermau)

Other Stuff

Dungeon Running Sheets (The Alexandrian)

Conan the Barbarian (Newspaper Comic Strips Blog)

Some Observations on Science Fiction Names (From the Sorceror’s Skull)

Notes from Reading “The Prairie Traveler: A Handbook for Overland Expeditions” (Whose Measure God Could Not Take)

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#blogosphere#blogospherefinds#Links
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Stuffed Crocodile

I actually have not had much time this week for blogging, even reading my feeds was an issue. Which is sad because there was a rather juicy amount of stuff to be found in them. Here are the most interesting:

Random Tables

100 Fairy Peon Quests (Whose Measure God Could Not Take)

d100 Things I Had To Do Growing up a Dwarf (Elfmaids & Octopi)

d100 Halfling Hangups Growing Up (Elfmaids & Octopi)

100 Wonderous Trinkets (OSRVault)

100 Curses (OSRVault)

PAINT THE (VILLAGE) RED: A General Purpose Carousing Table (I cast light!)

Roll Your Own Kobold Tribe (Points of Inspiration)

Wilderness Encounter Details/Activities (Eldritch Fields)

Game Aids

Mist Rapier (Wombat’s Gaming Den of Iniquity)

What to do at High Level (What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse)

10 Fantasy curses and the ritual to break them (Dawnfist Games)

Branching Factions (Space Aces)

Advanced LaTeX features and LaTeX Images for TTRPGs (Vladar’s Blog)

A take on the Monastery of the Fire Opal, including the upper levels (Dyson’s Dodehecadron)

Thought

Gods are High Level PCs (Rise up Comus!)

Monsters

You’re Sleeping on Perytons (Tales of the Lunar Lands)

OSR: Oni (Remixes and Revelations)

RPG History

Game 497: Dragons (1978) (CRPG Addict)

No Longer a Challenge (Grognardia)

Other

Desecrated Tomb paper model (papermau)

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#blogosphere#dnd#Links
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n8chz 🩎

@dsalo Honestly #medium dot com has been on my memorized list of my hover-and-move-on domains since the first time I saw it. My very first impression upon seeing it for the very first time was "this is intended as a #blogosphere killer, and that's a bad thing." Same goes double of course for #substack. I believe there are subtleties in the debate bewteen #DIY ethos and #FYPM ethos (although I have no apologies for being in the former camp) but I believe medium/substack are a weaponization of the latter against the former. Being assigned to visit either would definitely put me in something of a bind, so big thank you on your particular choices in the exercise of #AcademicFreedom.

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Matthew Brown

Is blog commenting dead?

The last time I questioned if blogging was dead I accidentally won a laptop. That was a long time ago. I am confident there is no laptop prize draw hidden in today’s topic but as Hugh (Hugh’s Views and News), Brenda (Curiosities, Castles and Coffee Shops) and Erika Kind (Share Your Light) have been discussing blog commenting especially within the WordPress.com […]

#11 #blogging #blogosphere #blogs #comments #IndieWeb #Mastodon #SocialMedia #Twitter

https://lordmatt.co.uk/?p=1334

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@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:

PostFreely Update (2023-10-01)

flamewar.social/post/2579

flamewar.socialPostFreely Update (2023-10-01) - FlameWarThis is a PostFreely update for Sunday October 1st, 2023. (Or maybe Monday October 2nd, 2023 — depending on where you are in the world.) (I’d like to do these updates somewhat regularly, just to keep everyone who is interested up to date.) — ## What Is PostFreely PostFreely is a clean, minimalistic publishing platform — geared towards blogging and long-form writing. PostFreely supports Markdown. And in particular CommonMark, thanks to Mathew ( @mathew@universeodon.com [https://universeodon.com/@mathew] ). And on top of that — PostFreely is Fediverse software — meaning it can connect with Mastodon, Akkoma, Castopod, Firefish, Friendica, Kbin, Lemmy, Misskey, Pixelfed, Pleroma, Plume, and any other software that supports ActivityPub, WebFinger, and the other technologies that the Fediverse is built on top of. PostFreely is also a publishing platform for the smallnet / smallweb — currently supporting the gopher-protocol, and in the near future also supporting the gemini-protocol / gemtext, the nex-protocol, the mercury-protocol, the finger-protocol, as well as restricted sub-sets of XHTML & HTML. — ## History PostFreely is a fork of WriteFreely. Thank you Matt Baer for creating WriteFreely and making it open-source software. After a discussion on the Fediverse between 3 people, Ynte ( @whylamb@aus.social [https://aus.social/@whylamb] ) encouraged myself ( @reiver@mastodon.social [https://mastodon.social/@reiver] ) and Mathew ( @mathew@universeodon.com [https://universeodon.com/@mathew] ) to fork WriteFreely. That fork became PostFreely. The name “PostFreely” is an homage to Matt Baer’s WriteFreely. To note its history, and try to give credit where credit it due. — ## Archetypes We had some discussion on who PostFreely is being built for. That discussion happened over here: “PostFreely Archetypes” https://flamewar.social/post/2073 [https://flamewar.social/post/2073] Although this type of quantitative research is ongoing — we now have some clarity over who PostFreely is being built for. (A more comprehensive archetype map document still needs to be created.) — ## Roadmap Backlog Knowing who PostFreely is being built for leads into the next thing — what are we planning to build. What we are planning on building is directly affected by who we are creating PostFreely for. What do those people want? What are their problems? PostFreely should try to solve their problems and address their wants. The PostFreely roadmap is not finalized yet. But we have several items in the backlog. Here they are: * password-resets (from the web-based PostFreely application), * image uploads (with Markdown code for the uploaded image automagically put into the Markdown editor): * image upload via drag-and-drop, * image upload svia copy-and-paste, * image upload via a button (when and if the toolbar is shown), * accessibility improvements, * CommonMark Mardown by default * but can change to other formats, too, in addition to CommonMark Markdown: * the gemini-protocol’s gemtext, * the nex-protocol’s (unnamed) directory document format, * (a subset of) XHTML, * (a subset of) HTML, * etc, * post previewing, * better Fediverse integration: * ability to see Fediverse notifications — favorites, boosts, replies, mentions, etc, * edits of posts get propagated on the Fediverse * plus many other things, too * more smallnet / smallweb support: * gemini-protocol & gemtext * mercury-protocol * nex-protocol * finger-protocol * (the gopher-protocol is already supported) * perhaps others, too * commenting, * being able to have conversations with people who comment to your post, * readers being able to see comments to a post, * comment moderation tools, * ability to turn commenting off (and on), * ability to hide specific comments, * ability to block specific users from commenting, * ability to block anyone from who server instances from commenting, * importing content from other platforms into PostFreely * import from WordPress, * import from WriteFreely, * import from Plume, * improved customization abilities (from terminal and via the web-based PostFreely application), * change favicon, * change fonts, * change skin / theme, * teams * Mastodon client-server API support * the Mastodon client-server API is becoming the defacto client-server API for the Fediverse. PostFreely implementing even part of it instantly makes all sorts of tooling (such as mobile apps) work for PostFreely, too. * being able to subscribe by e-mail, * being able to paywall some content (if desired), * optional micro-blogging to be able to chat with subscribers, * new methods for authentication * in addition to password: * one-time authorization code (OTAC), * magic-link, * passkey, * multi-factor authentication (MFA), * admins * multiple admins * step-down as admin * multi-tenant support, * serving a different domain, * similar to how DNS MX records except uses host-meta, * etc. (This list is not prioritized. Being near to the top or bottom of the list is not meaningful.) Again, these are currently in the PostFreely backlog. We are still discussing them. The roadmap is not finalized yet. But hopefully this gives you some sense of where PostFreely is likely going. If you would like to affect the PostFreely roadmap, please post in the PostFreely forum: https://flamewar.social/c/postfreely [https://flamewar.social/c/postfreely] — ## Development Work Mathew ( @mathew@universeodon.com [https://universeodon.com/@mathew] ) and I ( @reiver@mastodon.social [https://mastodon.social/@reiver] ) have been doing clean-up work of the PostFreely source-code. This type of work is necessary to prepare for adding features. Mathew and I had a conversation about how much we want PostFreely to diverge from the WriteFreely code-base. There are trade-offs both ways. There are advantages to keeping it similar — such as being able to pull-in upstream changes from WriteFreely. BUT — it does put constraints on us — and limits how much we can improve things. We are still undecided about this. Mathew has been focusing on CommonMark and Markdown component of PostFreely. He has a plan for how to add post previewing for CommonMark Markdown, and for how to make CommonMark the default format. I have been focusing on password-resets and implementing (parts of) the Mastodon client-server API for PostFreely. — ## Feedback We would love to hear from you. You can talk with us and the PostFreely community: * by replying to this post, * by posting in this community: https://flamewar.social/c/postfreely [https://flamewar.social/c/postfreely] * by posting on the Fediverse using the #PostFreely hash-tag, * or by directly reaching out to us: @reiver@mastodon.social [https://mastodon.social/@reiver] @mathew@universeodon.com [https://universeodon.com/@mathew] — ⸺ Charles Iliya Krempeaux ( @reiver@mastodon.social [https://mastodon.social/@reiver] )
#PostFreely#WriteFreely#blogdom
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Pelle Wessman

@stshank @TechDesk Somewhat problematic to track usage like this as eg “Massive surge in blog posting” wouldn’t be possible to say due to the distributed nature of the #blogosphere and Mastodon / #Fediverse / #IndieWeb is similarly distributed and as such hard to make such claims for

Not saying it’s wrong, but it’s a way of using the silo numbers and the silo narrative to discuss the success of alternative platforms that in themselves are not aiming to be silos

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