Back To The Old School

[Cipher]

I spent my evening yesterday reading, which was much nicer than doomscrolling for sure. Some of this is also just my depression cycling out I think, fingers crossed I can keep it up and not burn out being too excited about having spoons?

[DoveWithScales]

Good luck. I'm working on a ground up website overhaul to get it to do what I want.

[Shiloh (Bee System)]

And I have offered you help, and yet you do not respond. Despite the fact I have experience with websites and code...

I'm still on Tumblr, and I have mixed feelings about the internet splitting again. On the one hand, I think the fact it congregated on about 5 websites was a bad thing, and created schisms that wouldn't exist. Splitting up again is going to allow things to be just... better? idk. On the other hand, internet historians and archivists are panicking because we're losing information in real-time, and it was also exceptionally convenient.

Discord is about the only thing I don't forget; I've had long hiatuses on Tumblr when I forget its existence. So I'm sure I'll forget about this forum eventually too, it's only a matter of time. And then I'll probably remember it and come back 

[Arthfach]

And I have offered you help, and yet you do not respond. Despite the fact I have experience with websites and code...

I'm still on Tumblr, and I have mixed feelings about the internet splitting again. On the one hand, I think the fact it congregated on about 5 websites was a bad thing, and created schisms that wouldn't exist. Splitting up again is going to allow things to be just... better? idk. On the other hand, internet historians and archivists are panicking because we're losing information in real-time, and it was also exceptionally convenient.

Discord is about the only thing I don't forget; I've had long hiatuses on Tumblr when I forget its existence. So I'm sure I'll forget about this forum eventually too, it's only a matter of time. And then I'll probably remember it and come back 

I have to say that the decentralization that's happening now does look pretty bleak and will really require us as communities to work together on things to alleviate the problem. For example, I use an RSS aggregator to track multiple forums at this point (since at least the big name forums have built in RSS feeds) as well as blogs and some news sites. But it's not the end-all-be-all answer - I don't know what is, but it's that sort of interoperability that we need to work for.

Is ActivityPub (Mastodon/Lemmy/Kbin/etc.) the answer? Maybe; I don't know. But at least it's an attempt...

[Shiloh (Bee System)]

I think ActivityPub is helpful, but I don't think it will be the final answer. It's still aggregation.

I think the RSS feed might be a good idea; a way to follow multiple places without the same centralization.

[TheSovereignDragoness]

Greetings all,

I joined here after DoveWithScales has announced they are leaving Tumblr. Forgive me if it takes a bit for me to reply, I'm not accustomed to using a forum. Hopefully I posted this in the right topic. If not, just let me know and I'll fix it.

-TheSovereignDragoness

[Prophecy]

Greetings all,

I joined here after DoveWithScales has announced they are leaving Tumblr. Forgive me if it takes a bit for me to reply, I'm not accustomed to using a forum. Hopefully I posted this in the right topic. If not, just let me know and I'll fix it.

-TheSovereignDragoness

Welcome! We do have an introduction thread if you'd like to post there.
https://arthfach.com/forum/index.php?topic=3.0

[dzamie]

I think the RSS feed might be a good idea; a way to follow multiple places without the same centralization.

Myself, I use Mozilla Thunderbird as an RSS feed reader. Got separate folders and tags for YouTube channels, podcasts, a few tumblr blogs, and this forum (doesn't catch the NSFW subforum, but that just means I have to manually check every so often). It's very handy!

[Arthfach]

I think the RSS feed might be a good idea; a way to follow multiple places without the same centralization.

Myself, I use Mozilla Thunderbird as an RSS feed reader. Got separate folders and tags for YouTube channels, podcasts, a few tumblr blogs, and this forum (doesn't catch the NSFW subforum, but that just means I have to manually check every so often). It's very handy!

I did not know Thunderbird could do it! I actually set up a FreshRSS instance myself and am using that to keep updated with blogs, forums, and news. Its so handy indeed.

[TheSovereignDragoness]

Greetings all,

I joined here after DoveWithScales has announced they are leaving Tumblr. Forgive me if it takes a bit for me to reply, I'm not accustomed to using a forum. Hopefully I posted this in the right topic. If not, just let me know and I'll fix it.

-TheSovereignDragoness

Welcome! We do have an introduction thread if you'd like to post there.
https://arthfach.com/forum/index.php?topic=3.0

Thank you! Should I move the post I put here over to that thread or just write a new message there instead and keep my first one here?

[Arthfach]

Greetings all,

I joined here after DoveWithScales has announced they are leaving Tumblr. Forgive me if it takes a bit for me to reply, I'm not accustomed to using a forum. Hopefully I posted this in the right topic. If not, just let me know and I'll fix it.

-TheSovereignDragoness

Welcome! We do have an introduction thread if you'd like to post there.
https://arthfach.com/forum/index.php?topic=3.0

Thank you! Should I move the post I put here over to that thread or just write a new message there instead and keep my first one here?

You're totally fine! Feel free to write a new one there if you want to; no need to move this one.

[TheSovereignDragoness]

Greetings all,

I joined here after DoveWithScales has announced they are leaving Tumblr. Forgive me if it takes a bit for me to reply, I'm not accustomed to using a forum. Hopefully I posted this in the right topic. If not, just let me know and I'll fix it.

-TheSovereignDragoness

Welcome! We do have an introduction thread if you'd like to post there.
https://arthfach.com/forum/index.php?topic=3.0

Thank you! Should I move the post I put here over to that thread or just write a new message there instead and keep my first one here?

You're totally fine! Feel free to write a new one there if you want to; no need to move this one.

Thank you! You are very kind.