@lunduke @retropunk Thanks. Now I’ve got to get back to writing on it. The last couple of weeks have been pretty tiring.
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I’m not as concerned as others seem to be about the direction Locals is going, but since I have long wanted Lunduke to self-host the community, I am happy with the decision to open this forum.
Locals feed style social media presentation has always struck me as less than ideal for a community like ours.
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I agree. 100%.
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One thing that locals does is allow someone to make a premium post that cannot be seen by anyone who is not a member. This forum on the other hand is publicly searchable. Search engine will trawl it and things that are said here will show in results. I don’t feel the same is happening with Locals.
I think this is kind of important. Not that I want to hide things, but I really don’t like the idea of this being a kind of one-way mirror on the internet.
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True, and in my opinion @lunduke should set this entire forum to hidden behind a subscription and not publicly readable. Not to hide from the world, but to emulate the same barrier from the riff-raff
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I’ve learned never to rely on other platforms, they always get worse over time. That’s why I’ve invested a lot of time into self hosting things over the past couple of years (media server, RSS feed, file server, etc).
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