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What am I doing right now?
Wow, I've abandoned this. Sheesh
I got portainer working. But I need to understand Docker which is it's own beast.
Problems I had:
Instant messaging is too ephemeral and fleeting. Forums allow for multiple discussions on multiple topics asynchronously. It does away with the problem of having to “catch up” on messages.
Post interesting conversation topics. I’ll start.
I want to be able to interact with my friends, family, acquaintances, etc with a self hosted, invite only, social network. I don’t care that social media already exists, I figure that only the people that I actually care about would actually join.
I’ve been thinking about how to implement this, and I’ve had several ideas for concepts, some of them similar, others not.
One such idea was having a personal website style page, where all the content I post is tagged based on “intimacy level”. In order to see content based on higher intimacy levels, visitors would have to answer questions that would bump them up intimacy levels. This would allow anyone to visit the website and not have to login. Logging in could be a good barrier to entry as well and it would give me finer control over what people are allowed to see. The problem with this approach is that it is only me producing content, and nothing coming back.
Another idea I had was to have something like Google+ where everyone I know would get an invite to the site and they would be categorized into “circles”. This way I could post content to specific subsets of people and they could reply back within that circle or any circle that they choose. And they can choose the circle for every interaction they make. So like if I were to make a post within my “work friends” circle, and someone wanted to reply to it but they didn’t want people on my team to see it or whatever, they can choose to reply to my post, but only people within the circle that they choose would see it.
This forum is only three people right now, me included, but if I were to invite everyone I know, I could have something setup where I can choose to only post to my volleyball group circle, or my family circle, or this circle of three people.
I don’t think this forum software I’m using has such functionality, but what do you think of that idea? Please start the discussion in the comment/reply section below.
The main problem with this is that it revolves entirely around me, the site administrator. My friends aren’t going to talk to each other on my website, they’re just going to use the existing group SMS chat or whatever. And by each other I mean conversation topics that still include me. There would be no reason for them to use my website to talk to each other if it didn’t include me.
But yeah, I want to host a website for everyone I know so that I can privately interact with them for long form discussion. I think a cool side effect of this would be flattening a friend circle and introducing mutual friends to each other.
Is someone already working on this? I’ve done 0 research
I've been working almost entirely on getting my homelab back up and running after refactoring my entire file system and reinstalling TrueNAS to a new machine.
I recently just finished a long project around designing an HDD cage for my hard drives for my ThinkServer. I plan to make a write up about it and publish the files to Thingiverse soon.
I worked on adding some text to this "capsule" so that it wouldn't sit as an empty nothing. I'm still new to the gemini space so I'm figuring out where I'm going to setup my home. I can't decide if I should do everything at a tilde club like this one or just host my own gemini server. I suppose the answer is both.
Goals for soon:
Begin rant: Oh my god software is in a sad state in 2021. The existence of docker itself is a testament to our inability to solve the problem of "it works on my machine". Software is bad, so we have Docker, which is nice, but then docker itself became hard to use, so we have orchestration tools for docker, but those are hard to use too so we have helper programs for our helper programs! Docker compose, portainer, coreos, fedora coreos, ugh, this is impossible