working title snail’s pace

working title snail’s pace archive of blog posts, tracing enquiries into constructing a little community-run venue online hand‐coded 2023-08-03T00:00:00Z @wrul https://snailhuddle.org/~wrul/ © 2022–2023. All rights reserved. tag:snailhuddle.org,2022:/~wrul/wotipace microblogging (backends)

we could use Hometown until GoToSocial offers local-only posting, and then move across. Hometown needs at least 2 GiB of RAM; GoToSocial only a few hundred KiB. Hometown would also consume more and more and more and more storage space, unless we turned away media attachments coming from other servers, or someone pulls off some other trick. or, we could use GoToSocial in alpha version as an interim option, potentially even going on to keep a fairly outwards‐oriented instance alongside a more insular instance.

microblogging frontends

culture

running our own BookWyrm site is viable. it will require 1–2 GiB of our servers’ RAM to itself. BookWyrm works well with or without email access. however, avoiding email could effectively prevent us from resetting forgotten passwords.

so many choices of server software! appealing possibilities for privacy control and for collecting several people's posts together.

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authorship

web addresses are fraught, from an anticapitalist perspective. we can use snailhuddle.org, if everybody is happy to. should we assume a formal entity, alternative top level domains could become available to us — though changing address further down the track would disrupt any Fediverse server connections that we might have established by then.

repository

offline social media

www

easy. gophernicus would be grand. we could either keep our gopher sites to our collective selves or allow anyone to access them.

shell

subject index

would any of yous be interested in being part of some sort of very small, firmly noncommersh online social network? perhaps something from which trusted friends could interact with global/federated networks, as well as huddle in to talk amongst ourselves out of such a public gaze…?