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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
a quick interest check: I kind of want to use our deploymentās spare capacity to host an invite-only WriteFreely instance where our regulars can host longer form articles
ā¦but WriteFreelyās UI is so sub-optimal the official instance (write.as) runs a proprietary fork with a lot of the jank removed, and I donāt really consider WF to be production ready out of the box.
we can point the WF backend at arbitrary directories for its templates, page definitions, and static assets though, so maybe I could host those on codeberg and do a CI job thatād pull
main
every time it updates so we could collaboratively improve WFās frontend? itās not a job I want to take on alone (our main instance needs to take priority), but a community-run WF instance would be pretty uniquethe pros of doing this are that WriteFreely at least seems to have very slim resource requirements and itāll at least reliably host long form Markdown on the web
the downsides are again, itās janky as fuck (it only supports Mailgun of all things for email, but if you disable that the frontend will still claim it can send password reset emailsā¦ but itāll check the config and display an error if you click the reset link??? but they could have just hidden the reset UI entirely with the same logic??? also I donāt like the editing experience), and itās not really what Iād consider federated ā it shoots an Article into ActivityPub whenever you post, but itās one-way so replies, boosts, and favorites wonāt show up from ActivityPub which makes it feel a bit pointless. there might be a frontend-only way to link a blog post to the Mastodon or Lemmy thread itās associated with on another instance though, which would allow for a type of comment system? but I havenāt looked much into it. write.as just has a separate proprietary service for comments that nobody else can use.
this definitely wonāt replace Wordpress but does it sound like an interesting project to take on?
also, whatās a funny subdomain for this kind of thing?
gibberish.awful.systems, to form GAS
mouthful.awful.systems
scribes.of
damn
I want that album
@self If you fork/make a custom version of the software will you call it WriteAwfully
WritePhilthily
Love it.
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