Elena Rossini ⁂
@_elena@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

Warning: this is in fact a sub-toot.

A viral article about « getting off US tech » that mentions email, office suites, music and video streaming services, search and maps… but NOT the publishing platform where the article was posted.

Spoiler alert: it was Substack - the enshttf*ed Nazi bar supported by A16Z that platforms and profits from far right content.

Substack alternatives: Ghost, Wordpress, BeeHiiv, Buttondown. I use Ghost & Wordpress and LOVE them

Related: https://news.elenarossini.com/this-is-what-resistance-to-the-digital-coup-looks-like/
Chris Hartgerink (they/them)
@chartgerink@akademienl.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago
@_elena haha yes it is awkward. Thanks for resharing your blog 🙏

The writer's journey is interesting, because they were on substack -> migrated to ghost -> and chose to publish on both ghost and substack (I only found out now!).

Substack -> Ghost
https://www.disconnect.blog/p/welcome-to-the-new-disconnect

Ghost + Substack
https://www.disconnect.blog/p/new-year-new-disconnect
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 19 hours ago
@kobold
> Can't we just start hosting our own webservers again?

Maybe if we made the FreedomBox vision happen, which requires;

* every household/ office to have a net gateway capable of hosting services

* installing services to be as easy as installing apps on a mobile device,

* ISPs to give every customer a static IPv6 address

I've been installing GNU/Linux for about 20 years, and I'm still finding hosting skills fiendishly difficult to learn. Good luck getting normies to do it.

@_elena