Great Social Media Shakeup of 2022

[lukego]

It's the end of October 2022 and people everywhere are rethinking their relationship with Twitter.

Just for now I'm returning to "microblogging" via issues on this Github repo as I did before. You are welcome to Watch it if you want to follow what I am up to.

I'll leave a note here if I land somewhere new. Feel free to leave a comment to help us keep in touch in this brave new world. If all else fails I'm lukego@gmail.com for the foreseeable future too.

[Shinmera]

cohost is pretty cool

[jackrusher]

does this mean you shan't be tweeting?

[lukego]

@jackrusher I dunno. My take is that when Coca Cola changes the recipe it's a reasonable time to rethink your relationship with fizzy drinks. I don't know if the next step is fully embracing New Coke or adopting a more healthy lifestyle :D

I'm curious to look at the alternatives anyway. I already quit Twitter in a huff once, around 2009 or so, and came crawling back a year or two later...

[ehiggs]

Twitter has been a walled garden for a while. Didn't know you posted there.

[lukego]

I've used Twitter heavily over the past few years. I mostly use it for thinking aloud and ventilating thoughts while learning new things. It's a low-effort way to keep in the loop with a broad set of people. On some niche topics, particularly electronics and soldering, it attracts very welcome feedback from people with much more expertise.

I also recently experimented with setting up a "hallway track" for Twitter where random people can book 30-minute Google Meet calls to talk about random technical topics. That's been fantastic so far with a half-dozen or so really enjoyable human cross-project discussions. I'd like to continue that somehow (it's not tied to Twitter except as a place to mention when there are times available.)

I'm looking at org-roam as a potential partial replacement now. This "Zettelkasten" method seems interesting: braindump that evolves into a personal wiki. I don't know if it's fundamentally un-social or can be made social e.g. via Github.

They are definitely speaking my language here:

One of the best ways to think and work through problems is to have a written dialogue with yourself.

I'll see how I get along. I have always seen a Wiki as a fundamentally social phenomemon, dating back to the C2.com original wiki days, but maybe there is something in the personal-wiki-representing-own-knowledge idea.

I'm not boycotting Twitter or anything like that. But I do find myself reluctant to login there at all lately. It would be nice to try something new (which this "blog" doesn't really qualify as beyond being a stop-gap.)

[swyxio]

i've implemented "github issues as CMS for a blog" in case it helps https://swyxkit.netlify.app/moving-to-a-github-cms

[tcoram]

I miss your tweets, but I totally get your take on the matter.

[wesen]

I can definitely give you some Zettelkasten inspiration if you want, it's in many ways complementary to a wiki. Here's an entry point for a cluster of thoughts I've been developing over the summer that link to both my wiki and my zettelkasten: https://publish.obsidian.md/manuel/ZK/Structure+Notes/2+-+Software/2i0+-+Prototypes/SK+-+2i0+-++2022-08-13+-+Building+prototypes+for+software+architecture

[eugeneia]

What about this fediverse thing? I am seeing more and more people having mastodon/pleroma/... accounts.

[jackrusher]

Anything with an RSS feed would be good :)

[lukego]

My current idea is to "tweet" one minute Youtube videos. So far I've made a grand total of one :grin: https://youtube.com/@lukego.

I've also experimented with being more social on Github. That seems promising although pleasantness of interaction varies a lot from repo to repo.

I'm skeptical of Mastodon. I suspect it will be less good than twitter and I don't think that twitter was that great to begin with.

So still haven't worked out how to be social online in 2024 but working on it. Thanks for the interest :smile_cat:

[Shinmera]

Every mastodon account has an rss feed. Eg: https://mastodon.tymoon.eu/@shinmera.rss

[lukego]

Has anyone else notice that Youtube seems to have suddenly grown a Twitter microblogging clone? https://www.youtube.com/@lukego/community

I'm going to give that a try for a while. I don't immediately see an RSS link though and I don't know how anyone is ever supposed to see posts there.

[lukego]

Scratch that "tweeting on Youtube" idea. I can barely even stand to look at youtube.com with all of its clickbait. Worse than Facebook!

I have been using email as social media for a while but it's awkward. Oh well. Next on the rotation is trying this humble github-issues blog again.

[zicklag]

Something that might be worth looking into, thought it might not be ready for use yet: https://github.com/subconsciousnetwork/noosphere.

It seems like it wants to be the social Zettelkasten. I've just tried experimenting with the Zettelkasten style recently and it seem keeping very simple index-card-like linked notes might be a really powerful note-taking tool.

[jackrusher]

Btw, as of the icon change I've deleted Xitter from my phone and become an occasional/mostly write-only user.

[eugeneia]

I have leaped the leap and joined the fediverse via a self-hosted honk instance: https://honk.mr.gy/u/max/h/M36JV9wh2N16FnCJc2

On nixos-unstable the setup is pretty straight forward:

  services.honk = {
    enable = true;
    host = "127.0.0.1";
    port = 8181;
    username = "max";
    passwordFile = "/etc/honk/password.txt"; # put a line here for it to be your password
    servername = "honk.mr.gy";
  };
  networking.firewall.enable = true;
  networking.firewall.allowedTCPPorts = [ 22 80 443 ];
  services.nginx = {
    enable = true;
    recommendedGzipSettings = true;
    recommendedOptimisation = true;
    recommendedProxySettings = true;
    recommendedTlsSettings = true;
    virtualHosts = {
      "honk.mr.gy" = {
        forceSSL = true;
        enableACME = true;
        locations."/" = { proxyPass = "http://127.0.0.1:8181"; };
      };
  };