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But the devil is in the details. Specifically, what kind of plumbing is the most efficient, most maintainable way to connect all the bits together?

Up until 2020, when it died without warning, I had the #Disintermedia blog and wiki on CoActivate.org. A site based on OpenPlans, a Free Code project creates by welding together WordPress and a bunch of other software with a Python framework (Django, I think?). The UX was pretty good for the time, but performance and maintenance were hell.

If anyone is wondering why they're getting a bunch of notifications about posts featuring #Disintermedia blog pieces, I just edited them to replace the SS links with links to my Ghost instance at disintermedia.net.nz.

#HatTip to @lightweight for providing hosting and a huge amount of handholding to help me get this off the ground.

If you'd like to follow the #Disintermedia blog from your fediverse account, I just set up an actor for my blog that you can follow from both the fediverse and the ATmosphere;

@disintermedia.net.nz

I'm hosting the blog on Ghost, which I thought was federated out-of-the-box. But it turns out I need a separate ActivityPub module to plug my Ghost instance into. As a stopgap, I can use BridgyFed for this.

#HatTip to the #BridgyFed team at @anewsocial for making this possible.

#Ghost

New #Disintermedia blog post, on the way that online tools that are superficially similar can be based on very different political-economic models, with very different social outcomes;

https://disintermedia.net.nz/crowdsourcing-or-outsourcing-who-benefits/

This is a repost of a piece I wrote a decade ago. At the time this was a fairly edgy analysis, and I'm quite proud of how it's held up.

New #Disintermedia blog post!

After months of inactivity, I've decided to declare the Bridge Seat project a success and close up shop. Thanks to everyone who backed the vision and tried to help us realise it. Honourable mentions in the blog post;

https://disintermedia.net.nz/a-bridge-too-far/

The way I worded this announcement might be a bit confusing. If I’m declaring it a success, why am I closing up shop? I explain this at some length in the blog post.

#cooperatives #TechCooperatives #BridgeSeat

New #Disintermedia blog post!

After months of inactivity, I've decided to declare the Bridge Seat project a success and close up shop. Thanks to everyone who backed the vision and tried to help us realise it. Honourable mentions in the blog post;

https://disintermedia.net.nz/a-bridge-too-far/

The way I worded this announcement might be a bit confusing. If I’m declaring it a success, why am I closing up shop? I explain this at some length in the blog post.

#cooperatives #TechCooperatives #BridgeSeat

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@internetarchive is there a way I can get a full copy of data from the WayBack Machine? I'd like the most recent version of the Disintermedia project at;

https://web.archive.org/web/20200117232705/https://www.coactivate.org/projects/disintermedia/project-home

This was my virtual office, until the site went down unexpectedly and never came back.

#archives #WayBackMachine #Disintermedia

If anyone is trying to look at blog.disintermedia.net.nz tonight, you might stumble into a construction site. All going well, it will all be tidied up and back to BAU by tomorrow morning (Aotearoa time).

Details for the curious:

We're tweaking the DNS. Mainly to deprecate the URL redirection at the domain registrar, and point disintermedia.net.nz at the About page of Ghost. Also to make the base domain name the root of the HTTPS certs, rather than the blog subdomain.

#Disintermedia #DNS

I still need to finish hanging the curtains and arranging the furniture in the new space, but the #Disintermedia migration from SS to Ghost is complete!

Here's the first blog post I can promote using the Disintermedia domain name, telling the story of why and how I finally made the move;

https://disintermedia.net.nz/ghosting-substack/

You can follow the blog using RSS;

https://disintermedia.net.nz/rss

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#SubStack #Ghost

Finally, a bit of blatant self-promotion;

I'm now in the process of moving the #Disintermedia blog from SS to Ghost (watch this space!). So as soon as I carve out time to finish the migration and hang the curtains, Disintermedia will be published from a community-hosted instance, right here in Aotearoa.

Thanks to @lightweight for supplying a test server and walking me through a Ghost set-up, and to Prodigi.nz for agreeing to sponsor some dogfooding services under disintermedia.net.nz.

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As promised a week ago, hot off the press, here's a new #Disintermedia post on why it's so difficult to replace FarceBook with ethical services;

https://disintermedia.net.nz/farcebook-one-thing-to-rule-them/

#SocialMedia #FaceBook

New #Disintermedia blog post about my recent health scare (see pinned post) and the implications of #Ghost 6.0 hitting its official release milestone;
https://disintermedia.net.nz/resting-comfortably

@index

On the subject of the ongoing enshittification of GritHub, we've been here before. From a post on my #Disintermedia blog in its early days;

"SF.net has since reimplemented its stack in Python, beginning in 2009 as a new free code project called Allura under the Apache 2.0 license, and in June 2011, a piece was posted on the SourceForge blog which finished off, 'pull up a chair, because we’re here to stay'."

https://web.archive.org/web/20170409065834/https://www.coactivate.org/projects/disintermedia/blog/2015/07/15/gitorious-becomes-gitlab/

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#CodeForges#GitHub#SourceForge#Allura

New #Disintermedia blog post, and a new entry in my ongoing Indymedia stories, this one about valuing our contributions to public interest work.

Most of us feel like an imposter sometimes. Your work is more valued than you know. Rate yourself.

https://disintermedia.net.nz/indymedia-stores-4-valuing-our-contributions

#Indymedia #IndymediaStories

New #Disintermedia blog post, on the challenges of keeping communications private in networked software;

https://disintermedia.net.nz/get-a-room

As I say at the outset, I am not a security professional, and this is not security advice. I’m just an old school Direct Action activist and indymediatista, with some information to add to the mix. Add a grain of salt and stir well.

#privacy #E2EE

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the blogosphere ...

2 new #Disintermedia blog posts to celebrate the southern, seasonal new year. One a sort of state of the blog update;

https://disintermedia.net.nz/guess-whos-back-tell-a-friend

... and another Indymedia Story about my experience with a police informant who spent a decade spying on activist groups, including many I was involved in;

https://disintermedia.substack.com/p/indymedia-stories-3-rob-and-me

#activism #policing #Indymedia