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I enjoyed the point (paraphrased) "that just because it doesn't scale, doesn't mean it won't work". People (can) enjoy exquisite gourmet restaurant meal, an all
by samsquire 3y ago
I enjoyed the point (paraphrased) "that just because it doesn't scale, doesn't mean it won't work". People (can) enjoy exquisite gourmet restaurant meal, an all you can eat inclusive holiday package or coffee in a coffee shop but it probably doesn't scale.
We don't actually need complicated software or web application to run a community. Webrings were a way of navigating a very small web in the nascent days of the world wide web. People would link to eachother.
I think invite based communities can be high quality without moderation. dang does a lot of work to moderate this community. If you curate everything you read, then you can ignore stuff you don't like.
So I have a solution that is low tech too and doesn't require any protocols than what you're already using. Doesn't require your own web host or custom software, you can just use browser and you already know the website.
I use an ultra low tech solution to sharing things I want to share. It costs me nothing, it doesn't require an elaborate technical stack that requires me to remember arcane commands, maintain it or upgrade it or run a server. It doesn't require moderation or spam filtering or hosting.
I just use GitHub README.md as my blog and journals. Please do this too, then tell me about it. I would love to read other people's technical thoughts. So please do the same! I have 5 journal repositories on GitHub each with 100-800 entries on each of them because I'm interested in writing down my thoughts.
I have a number of repositories on GitHub for different purposes:
* blog: where my blog is hosted
* ideas ideas2 ideas3 ideas4 ideas5: my idea journals. I write computer related thoughts into this every day until I get to 100-800 and then create a new repository.
* wants: some things that I want to exist
* personal-manifesto: my own code of conduct