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   Morghur the Sealgave (morghur@seal.cafe)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 06:27:42 JST Morghur the Sealgave
   Question to fedi: Do you know of a place where you can set up a blog and it's easy to understand and manage?
   
   Dunno if i could set up anything here in the Fediverse since despite being here for a long time i'm a bonafide retard
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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 06:27:32 JST silverpill

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     @frogzone

     >when it comes to decentralized hosting, for example if your server goes down, then i've heard good things about IPFS and tahoe-lafs

     Have a look at this: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/ef61/fep-ef61.md. With this federation protocol improvement we can have redundancy in ActivityPub (i.e. if your server goes down you can switch to another one without losing your identity). It will nicely work with I2P too.

     >it can be linked to a bitcoin or monero wallet (or lightning node?

     Monero and Ethereum, but Ethereum will be removed very soon.

     @arcanicanis @PurpCat @Morghur

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     frogzone@wizard.casa's status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 06:27:33 JST frogzone

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     @Morghur @arcanicanis @PurpCat i'd avoid substack..... sh!t is cloudflare :thinka:

     btw this instance was on i2p also at one stage, mitra is designed to federate over both legacy internet and i2p. so yeah, i2p is pretty great, imo its going to be the new transport layer for the web in the future.

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     frogzone@wizard.casa's status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 06:27:33 JST frogzone

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     @Morghur @arcanicanis @PurpCat when it comes to decentralized hosting, for example if your server goes down, then i've heard good things about IPFS and tahoe-lafs, someone also mentioned solana(?) and Unstoppable domains(?) but i've not had a chance to research those.

     the :butterfedyC: fediverse server, mitra, itself is pretty great actually, you can do the usual blog/microblog and even do some optional fancy stuff where it can be linked to a bitcoin or monero wallet (or lightning node? @silverpill ?) for optional paid subscription content i can't say i've ever used this part of the mitra server myself but i think its pretty neat that its possble.

     so just some ideas there :)

     20245 is year of teh :butterfedy1: :butterfedy2: :butterfedy3: fedi

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     frogzone@wizard.casa's status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 06:27:34 JST frogzone

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     @arcanicanis @Morghur @PurpCat congrats morghur, i would suggest selfhosting and the invisible internet project (i2p) at geti2p.net has been empowering people for 20 odd years in helping setup a basic jetty server they can publish on. if you want a Markup-to HTML setup (so you don't need to write HTML) then, theres jekyll for that, jekyll spits out a website from fairly basic text files, you might be able to find some nice jekyll templates/themes, is fairly easily to dump out sites with it.

     using i2p, you'll be able to choose an address like morghur.i2p fairly easily, too. you can also publish your content as a torrent over i2p, bittorrent is a popular way to find videos and podcasts and all sorts of media, eg wikileaks famously used torrents.

     the future is on i2p imo, not the legacy internet controlled by certificate authorities (CAs) aka dubious actors.

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     arcanicanis (arcanicanis@were.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 06:27:35 JST arcanicanis

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     I mean, hell, I can just start a managed hosting service (under my pseudonym; I already do such professionally) if there's a market for it on fedi. Just a decade ago it wasn't perceived as that much of a hurdle, as people would pursue through it.

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     Morghur the Sealgave (morghur@seal.cafe)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 06:27:36 JST Morghur the Sealgave

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     Interesting.
     
     I've also checked that you need to get some web hosting and on that matter i have 0 knowledge about that. And i don't know if going substack will be easier because i don't have to worry about hosting.
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     Morghur the Sealgave (morghur@seal.cafe)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 06:27:37 JST Morghur the Sealgave

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     One of the things i wanted to ask also was if there is much difference between Wordpress and Substack. I got recommended Substack as well and tbh i don't care about monetization but i do care about the autistic ramblings i post staying my own.
     
     Plus, i wonder about if they censor a lot or not since i don't want to end up in hot water for being a bit spicy
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     arcanicanis (arcanicanis@were.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 06:27:37 JST arcanicanis

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     The point with a self-hosted WordPress install is you have full autonomy over your own website/blog, and nobody can interfere with that.

     If you use the SaaS WordPress.com offering, then I'm sure it's not much different of a situation than Substack, other than far more customization.

     Edit: additionally, with self-hosted WordPress---it's probably the easiest web application to install on conventional web hosting (LAMP stack) that usually the layperson is able to figure out themself and maintain. And is meant to be widely supported over a broad range of environments or PHP versions, unlike most 'modern' software that's so brittle (and often only deployable via Docker or similar).

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     arcanicanis (arcanicanis@were.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 06:27:38 JST arcanicanis

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     Last I remember it only federates blog posts and comments. If the purpose is a blog, then yes, I'm sure that's fully within the use-case. WordPress is fine and pretty mainstream, just don't install a lot of plugins as that increases security risk, as really anyone can publish a plugin (including a lot of web designers that think they know how to code).

     If you need any custom theme (or turning an existing design into a WordPress theme), guidance, or auditing, I can provide that.

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     Pawlicker (purpcat@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 06:27:39 JST Pawlicker

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     @Morghur @arcanicanis https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/
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     Pawlicker (purpcat@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 06:27:40 JST Pawlicker

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     @Morghur @arcanicanis but basically so many news sites/news blogs, especially in this side of the web, or creative types posting their content love WordPress because of the massive ecosystem for it and the fact it works well enough to drive a news site.
     
     Also you can self host it so you don't need to worry about corpo censorship and it has a fedi plugin even.
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     Morghur the Sealgave (morghur@seal.cafe)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 06:27:40 JST Morghur the Sealgave

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     >fedi plugin
     I want to know more, if it's not much of a problem. Is it like a link to my fedi profile? or something else?
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     Morghur the Sealgave (morghur@seal.cafe)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 06:27:41 JST Morghur the Sealgave

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     I got recommended Mataroa but i don't know if a bonafide retard like me can handle wordpress.
     
     But maybe being in the normieverse gets me more traction. Who knows
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     Pawlicker (purpcat@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 06:27:41 JST Pawlicker

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     @Morghur if you go WordPress id ask @arcanicanis because WordPress is open and there's lots of hosting for it that's managed but there's also many bad ways to do wordpress.
     
     Namely using dodgy plugins that duplicate features it already has is a good way to fuck it up. It has a bad rep because of bad admins.
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     Pawlicker (purpcat@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 06:27:42 JST Pawlicker

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     @Morghur I just use wordpress crap like a normie (I feel like my technical proficiency got worse)
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 06:30:18 JST Sick Sun

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     @silverpill @PurpCat @Morghur @arcanicanis @frogzone how can we add nft support if you remove ethereum???
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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 06:44:28 JST silverpill

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     @sun NFTs were quietly removed several months ago. Everyone hated them.

     (But the code can still be found in the repo.)

     @arcanicanis @PurpCat @frogzone @Morghur

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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 06:46:34 JST Sick Sun

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     @silverpill @PurpCat @Morghur @arcanicanis @frogzone oh wow I didn't realize they were added for real
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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 08:30:35 JST silverpill

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     @sun @arcanicanis @PurpCat @frogzone @Morghur One of the first features I added to Mitra! Token metadata was stored in IPFS and contained a link to tokenized post.

     https://codeberg.org/silverpill/mitra-contracts/src/branch/main/contracts/Adapter.sol#L96-L116

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     frogzone@wizard.casa's status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 21:20:49 JST frogzone

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     @silverpill btw silverpill, re mitra, i remember bitcoin was an option, or going to be an option, what happened? i'd say bitcoin is a super importan store-of-value.

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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 21:20:49 JST silverpill

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     @frogzone There's no such option, but I'm not against including it.

     Bitcoin itself lacks privacy, so using it for payments is not a good idea, but recently some interesting L2 solutions started to appear, like Cashu. If there will be enough demand I can support them.

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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 07:07:07 JST silverpill

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     @frogzone

     >inflation bug

     https://www.moneroinflation.com/

     >i'm unaware of any layer 2 for monero that would help it scale

     Several solutions were proposed, but none of them are being worked on because there is no urgency. Unless Monero growth becomes explosive (unlikely), the flexible blocksize is a good enough scaling solution.

     >bitcoin is as private as a person makes it

     Not really, because all transactions are public. You can only make your transaction history harder to analyze, but this is not easy.

     L2 systems can be private by default, so not all hope is lost.

     >btcpayserver (L2)

     btcpayserver is a payment processor, not an L2 system. Perhaps you meant Lightning Network? It borrows some ideas from Tor, but it doesn't operate over Tor by default.

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     frogzone@wizard.casa's status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 07:07:09 JST frogzone

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     @silverpill all the cryptos have tradeoffs, the issue with monero is an inflation bug may lay hidden for a long time. also i'm unaware of any layer 2 for monero that would help it scale, but ive not had a chance to research as much as i'd like.

     bitcoin is as private as a person makes it, if a person is to lazy to think about privacy and declares to the world they own coins then that's their choice, i actually don't mind the mildly traceable aspect of it, it gives people an incentive to think about operational privacy and not just blockchain privacy. i think its good for holding govts accountable too, people should see what they are doing.

     i know that bitcoin Core (layer 1) can operate over tor and i2p but btcpayserver (L2) operates over tor and i don't know if it operates over i2p, if it does support i2p then i'd be super supportive of mitra being compatible with the btcpayserver api.

     if #btcpayserver doesn't do i2p i'd personally give priority to that.

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     frogzone@wizard.casa's status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 07:07:09 JST frogzone

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     @silverpill i should make it clear that unless i'm mistaken L2 btcpayserver, operates over tor BY DEFAULT which is pretty neat

     i love anything that gives middle finger to the legacy (broken) internet