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Yep. The way social sites encourage you to share your content via their websites and only their websites is not good for longevity of content. It will disappear

Yep. The way social sites encourage you to share your content via their websites and only their websites is not good for longevity of content. It will disappear over time. I do think you need your content in a share friendly way in order to get any visibility anymore, but you also need to keep a 'non-social' version of it (linked from the shared version) if you want it to stick around for the long haul and maintain link integrity. I still pay for web hosting, and if I ever get a solid weekend again I intend to put up a much simpler, almost early WWW homepage, and Archive.org friendly, to store my projects and thoughts on, that I plan to keep up as long as I'm still kicking (the domain might eventually change, I haven't settled on that yet). I used to want to show off my web developer skills and make fancy pages, but that just makes me never get around to finishing and/or updating them. There's a reason busy people often have bare-bones websites, and you can still make a simple website look decent with HTML and CSS.

pmlnr 10y ago
This is what http://indieweb.org/ http://indieweb.org/ has been trying to tell for a long while: http://indieweb.org/POSSE http://indieweb.org/POSSE or http://indieweb.org/PESOS http://indieweb.org/PESOS.
- cableshaft 10y ago
  That's pretty cool that what I decided upon independently over time and with lots of different approaches already has a movement with a published manifesto behind it. Makes me even more motivated to do this now. Thanks for sharing that.
- WA 10y ago
  I noticed that I post quite different content on each platform. It seems that this would be a major downside of POSSE: I don't want everything aggregated on a personal website, but rather where it belongs.
  - pmlnr 10y ago
    It belongs on your site; it's your content. You don't have to show it, but make sure you own it.
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nkrisc 10y ago
> I used to want to show off my web developer skills and make fancy pages, but that just makes me never get around to finishing and/or updating them. There's a reason busy people often have bare-bones websites, and you can still make a simple website look decent with HTML and CSS. 100% agree. As a UX designer (and only a hobbyist developer), I decided the way to make my personal site easy to read was to use simple, semantic, classless HTML with a super basic responsive stylesheet. Just the good, old classic document layout for me, nothing fancy. I actually use a minimally modified version of this stylesheet: https://github.com/programble/writ https://github.com/programble/writ
- sevensor 10y ago
  Thanks for the pointer, this is a great stylesheet to use with Markdown!
  - nkrisc 10y ago
    It does work well indeed with Markdown. I build my site using Jekyll and it comes out just fine.
- 6DM 10y ago
  Nice, if you want to grab something a little more complete or find some inspiration, I remember seeing something like this previously: https://github.com/mblode/marx https://github.com/mblode/marx
artursapek 10y ago
I quit using Facebook around 4 years ago and have since then learned AWS pretty well. Last summer after my son turned 1, I realized I was at risk of losing all my photos because they were sitting around on random devices and hard drives. I set up my own 250GB EBS volume and went through everything I had and archived it in that volume chronologically. /mnt/raw/photos/2014/06/IMG_5930.JPG etc. I've even built tooling around it to help sync my photos from my computer whenever I plug my phone in. I also wrote a custom web server in Go that makes it easy for me to arrange them into albums and email its URL to friends and family. I even hope to eventually learn Swift and just build an app like iCloud that will upload everything directly from the phone, with no laptop required. It's all completely overkill, but I enjoy knowing that I have full control and ownership over it. It's a nice little "fuck you" to Facebook. It's also been a fun project to work on. It's the 2016 equivalent of my parents' bookshelf full of dusty photo albums from the 90's. At least there's a decent chance it will survive the next 20 years.
- webwanderings 10y ago
  Sounded all good until I read this: "email them to friends and family." You have a weak link there. In today's day and age, most people expect not to send or receive emails. Be that family photos or birthday wishes. The expectations is to share in a pool of social media, for everyone to see (or not see). I am not a naysayer of your method (I prefer email), but it is practically too much work to select and send emails (takes a lot of thinking and decision making). This is why one-click sharing on social media, has been able to evolve to a point where it has set such an expectations across common denominator crowd.
  - 6DM 10y ago
    Not to mention the 25mb limit. Maybe he just emails the direct links?
    - artursapek 10y ago
      Yes, I just email a URL to a page.

pmlnr 10y ago

This is what http://indieweb.org/ http://indieweb.org/ has been trying to tell for a long while: http://indieweb.org/POSSE http://indieweb.org/POSSE or http://indieweb.org/PESOS http://indieweb.org/PESOS.

cableshaft 10y ago
That's pretty cool that what I decided upon independently over time and with lots of different approaches already has a movement with a published manifesto behind it. Makes me even more motivated to do this now. Thanks for sharing that.
WA 10y ago
I noticed that I post quite different content on each platform. It seems that this would be a major downside of POSSE: I don't want everything aggregated on a personal website, but rather where it belongs.
- pmlnr 10y ago
  It belongs on your site; it's your content. You don't have to show it, but make sure you own it.

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nkrisc 10y ago

> I used to want to show off my web developer skills and make fancy pages, but that just makes me never get around to finishing and/or updating them. There's a reason busy people often have bare-bones websites, and you can still make a simple website look decent with HTML and CSS. 100% agree. As a UX designer (and only a hobbyist developer), I decided the way to make my personal site easy to read was to use simple, semantic, classless HTML with a super basic responsive stylesheet. Just the good, old classic document layout for me, nothing fancy. I actually use a minimally modified version of this stylesheet: https://github.com/programble/writ https://github.com/programble/writ

sevensor 10y ago
Thanks for the pointer, this is a great stylesheet to use with Markdown!
- nkrisc 10y ago
  It does work well indeed with Markdown. I build my site using Jekyll and it comes out just fine.
6DM 10y ago
Nice, if you want to grab something a little more complete or find some inspiration, I remember seeing something like this previously: https://github.com/mblode/marx https://github.com/mblode/marx

artursapek 10y ago

I quit using Facebook around 4 years ago and have since then learned AWS pretty well. Last summer after my son turned 1, I realized I was at risk of losing all my photos because they were sitting around on random devices and hard drives. I set up my own 250GB EBS volume and went through everything I had and archived it in that volume chronologically. /mnt/raw/photos/2014/06/IMG_5930.JPG etc. I've even built tooling around it to help sync my photos from my computer whenever I plug my phone in. I also wrote a custom web server in Go that makes it easy for me to arrange them into albums and email its URL to friends and family. I even hope to eventually learn Swift and just build an app like iCloud that will upload everything directly from the phone, with no laptop required. It's all completely overkill, but I enjoy knowing that I have full control and ownership over it. It's a nice little "fuck you" to Facebook. It's also been a fun project to work on. It's the 2016 equivalent of my parents' bookshelf full of dusty photo albums from the 90's. At least there's a decent chance it will survive the next 20 years.

webwanderings 10y ago
Sounded all good until I read this: "email them to friends and family." You have a weak link there. In today's day and age, most people expect not to send or receive emails. Be that family photos or birthday wishes. The expectations is to share in a pool of social media, for everyone to see (or not see). I am not a naysayer of your method (I prefer email), but it is practically too much work to select and send emails (takes a lot of thinking and decision making). This is why one-click sharing on social media, has been able to evolve to a point where it has set such an expectations across common denominator crowd.
- 6DM 10y ago
  Not to mention the 25mb limit. Maybe he just emails the direct links?
  - artursapek 10y ago
    Yes, I just email a URL to a page.