Heh, indeed. Not to be confused with this old school SS to Ghost migration tool. 👻

There are several, but the most direct alternative is Ghost (see SS to Ghost migration guide here).

I used to subscribe to several SS newsletters that switched to Ghost, which is how I found out about it. But I wouldn’t have even noticed if they hadn’t told me.

Highly prone to lock-in, enshittification, and they promote Nazis.

Just another centralized platform that can’t help but want to become universal.

It was so disappointing to see mods buckling to the pressure. Like what’re admins going to do, sue you? Ban you? I wouldn’t want to be part of any platform that would behave that way.

I’d rather leave with a hundred die-hard community members than stay for ten thousands lemmings.

Every time I land there because there’s a product or technology discussion that got surfaced as relevant in my search results, all the comments seem to be from 3 to 5 years ago.

I know there must be people still posting there currently, but are they even getting indexed?

Yes, I wonder what journalists (“professional” and otherwise) are supposed to do. Everyone going their own way and splintering off into many little voices doesn’t feel like the right answer, but publishers are beholden to investors and can be bought out by billionaires. I suppose there are publishers/agencies that have maintained their integrity like 404 Media, or Al Jazeera.

Maybe this is just the burden of anyone in a democracy: to constantly weigh the quality of the sources of information you’re using to form opinions which spawn action.

Apologies, I wasn’t criticizing the article, or you for sharing it. It’s a tricky sentence, especially if English isn’t your first language - the “but” changes the subject. Article is definitely privacy related.

What isn’t privacy related is my opinion about subtack. I don’t mean to derail, so will let anyone reading this look up why ss sucks and make their own decision.

Using this to try to get more people off of discord.

Also not privacy related, but fuck substack

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The cult around constantly being touring, or planning your next trip, that I’ve seen at every company where people earn ok money is such a bother.

I feel for people who have friends in other countries, but all this flying around ugh, and then talking about it ugh ugh

Farewell from fediverse!

Are Atlas’ nips blurred? C’mon let me see the skittles don’t be g greedy

You’re speculating that an internet wouldn’t have emerged without capitalism. Capitalism exists, therefore we can’t know if that’s true or not.

I worked at a place that had self-hosted git and IRC for internal messaging. Was great!

From my perspective that seems to be happening. I feel like there’s a rift between the websites I use for work and the ones I use on my own time. I realize that for most people on the internet, the big central platforms are the internet–I’m not trying to universalize my perspective.

It’s just that I remember when computers and the internet itself were niche and business was still barely aware of its potential, so this kind of feels familiar: You’ve got biz churning away in the mainstream, unaware of another culture that’s growing up, outside of their malls and parking lots.

Maybe just a liittle cancer until we get smartphones and then we can nip it in the bud and ooops why is everyone mad oh no why are all the animals dying I just wanted to scroll for gods sake

You are speculating on hypotheticals though, since no one can know for certain how things would have unfolded in a different world.

I’m not even going to argue that capitalism doesn’t get you some positive outcomes for certain people.

Go baaaack

“trauma induced return to Ubuntu” 😭 it was my wifi not working that did it, and I’m just so used to Ubuntu from years of using it at work…

That’s a beautiful phone. I’m sorry to hear of your tale of woe. Sadly, there are many like it