Help is out there if you or your organisation are wanting to transition off of dangerous and socially irresponsible (and sometimes downright evil) corporate web services! Regain autonomy of your data, and stop supporting #capitalistDestruction at the same time!
We can help you transition away from:
Substack
Twitter
Facebook/Instagram
Dropbox, iCloud, etx
Amazon/Audible
Google
Almost anything else!
You're in the right place already! Just pop up your hand and let us know what you need!
If you're not too concerned with the monetization aspects and into something clean & barebones, you could also consider #writeFreely (I use this myself).
I finally have a tiny home on the internet again, dedicated to what I am passionate about, and filled with what I am reading, writing, and working on (coming soon).
This is not just a designer's portfolio it is a representation of myself. I got inspired by loads of folks, but especially @matthiasott, his posts and newsletter has been among the driving forces to finish my personal website. 😊 #indieweb
I also set up a newsletter on #buttondown called Datest (https://buttondown.email/philipp) which I will write casually to share updates about my site, writings, and interesting links.
First edition of Cybercultural to go out in the post-Substack era! Now using Eleventy and Buttondown -> In 2006, Read/WriteWeb gets a redesign and I begin to grow the team, starting with a couple of engineers who help me explain Amazon Web Services and GoogleOS. https://cybercultural.com/p/018-birth-of-cloud-computing/
since #buttondown email is still blocked in indonesia, i thought about self-hosting the backend for my newsletter service on the same server as my personal site, but boy did i severely underestimate how much horsepower a mass-mailing service takes. just running the PHP library without sending anything ate up 1 GB of my host's physical memory.
#Substack allowing hate speech on their platform aside, it’s simply a terrible user experience from the reader’s perspective. #Buttondown newsletters are so much nicer. It’s plain text! It supports dark mode! It does not try to get readers to download an app! Or try to get readers to create an account! I understand that writers prioritize growing their audiences more than reader experience, but as a reader I wish all email newsletters are more like that.
So I think the migration of my Doctor's Note newsletter #substack to #Buttondown is complete. Thanks to Justin from @buttondown for adding in redirects from the Substack URL slugs so that old links and searches go to the right place (and fixing up the image CSS). Here it is at its new home: https://newsletter.polaine.com
(Sidenote: the best thing I did was to use a custom domain on Substack just in case I ever had to do this. All the content now lives at the same URLs from before)
Can't get a #Beehiiv account because they prohibit sexual content.
Wrote to #Buttondown and #Ghost to learn what their standards are. However, they both use #Stripe, who has suspended me for adult content.
It's so much harder to talk about sexual fantasy than it is to decry certain skin colors and genders as not human. Even those comments on #Substack's announcement were alternately "eww, porn is gross" and "hang on, let's see what the Nazis have to say."
As I move instances today, I figure it's time for another #Introduction. I am the only Orthodox #Jewish#transgender#film critic that I know of. That said, I do cover #TV to some extent. I am a member of various awards-voting critics groups.
In addition to my love of #movies, I am also a #baseball fan and write about baseball at Dugout Dirt (which will remain on #Substack until my #Buttondown newsletter brings in enough paid subscription revenue to justify a move). The #StLCards are my favorite baseball team and when it comes to college #sports, it's all about the #KentuckyWildcats aka #BBN. I root for the #Boston#Celtics when it comes to the #NBA even as many ex-Cats are playing throughout the league.
Another thing: I am very vocal when it comes to speaking out against #antisemitism no matter where it comes from.
When new services join the #SocialWeb, it works best if there's an associated default app. Everything shares the #ActivityPub protocol but an app can be designed to best deal with a certain type of content. I use #Pocket by @mozilla right now for articles, but it's not federated. I wonder if @omnivore can't be the default app for our AP enabled #WordPress#Ghost and #Buttondown future.
Nel 2024, per la prima volta, si ha finalmente la sensazione di avere una massa critica di persone e piattaforme interessate a ridare vita a Internet per riportare in vita ciò che abbiamo perso e creare qualcosa di nuovo. Solo nell'ultima settimana ci sono state conversazioni fra #Mastodon, #Flipboard, #TheVerge, #Buttondown, #WriteFreely e diversi co-autori della specifica #ActivityPub. C'è la sensazione palpabile che questo possa essere l'anno del web aperto!