@somnilogical replied to your post “About that post a couple hours ago that read “This is a test of the…”
have you looked in to scuttlebutt?
An interesting idea! Very good fit for the “101 Uses for Infrastructureless Computers” tag (use 41: read-write social media).
I see two main issues:
- There doesn’t seem to be per-post blacklisting or even muting, which combines badly with the system where you automatically see everything friends-of-friends post. Someone who likes my fandom posts does not necessarily want to read my kink posts, and someone who likes my entire blog does not necessarily want to read a bunch of Amenta RP. There’s a block system, but this seems rather extreme: finding a friend-of-a-friend uninteresting does not mean you want them to be unable to read your posts.
- I am very not an early adopter. I mean, apparently a lot of people *think* of me as an early adopter (”people who made [Tumblr] blogs before 2012 are the Ancient Gods talked about in fantasy”), but I had to hear about Tumblr from four different places for months before deciding to get an account myself.
On the bright side, it looks like backing up your blog is as simple as backing up (Linux) Thunderbird: just zip the local folder and stick the zip file wherever you want, and to restore it just get a blank installation of the interface program and stick the unzipped backup folder where the interface expects its data to be. (I have restored Thunderbird from this style of backup twice, and both times it has Just Worked™.)
I’ll keep it in mind. Thank you!
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