Olives @olives@qoto.org

Even with the fediverse, there are a few instances to be cautious of.

One is hachyderm which is run by a British company. It's an instance which engages in petty drama and I would caution someone against using it. It has a veneer of professionalism which might make it appealing to a few.

Another one is universeodon which appears to have been bought out (or something) by a British admin. Petty drama, petty admin drama. Once again, I would caution someone against using it.

.world appears to be a petty censorship instance.

.art is run by a British admin. It is notorious for drama.

There are probably more, but these are ones which immediately come to mind, and they are also ones which someone might overlook as being bad.

The bigger issue that people complain about is that Bluesky moderation can be trigger happy.

https://9to5mac.com/2024/10/25/bluesky-paid-subscription/ People see this as kind of the smoking gun but it isn't surprising that a platform would want some way to make money.

Maybe, for privacy, I could add an option to read my blog via a .onion or something.

Maybe, host in the U.S. It's a nice central location between Asia and Europe, I don't know how good the infrastructure between Asia and Europe is. Also, it's cheap.

Maybe, both, if it goes well, upgrade to a TLD.

Am I going to bother to buy a TLD or will I just cheap out for the experiment.

It's not surprising that someone decided to shutdown what appears to be their bot gimmick / toy instance.

It appears to have started off as someone's simple C wrapper for rendering webpages and ended up being used for a lot more by a lot more people. This is why so many functions look like they have been plucked right out of C.

PHP is short for Personal Home Page. This acronym came off as a bit weak though, so they ended up saying that it means PHP Hypertext Preprocessor later on.

Also, from what I remember, PHP is an ultra specialized programming language which is only good for rendering simple web pages. Once you start adding additional functionality, it doesn't stack up very well.

There are quite a few potential blogging options, so I might play around with a few to figure out what might fit better.

I'm not going to use Wordpress. I'm honestly tired of Wordpress.

I don't really want to be troubleshooting (or writing extensions for) 20 year old PHP legacy code. I'd like to play with something which uses a more modern stack than that.

Even for something hosted, after the parent company bought Tumblr for a low price, they've been doing a poor job of moderation, still being censorious. Plus, I'd like to play with something more modern and fresh, it doesn't have to be something hot off the press, but not the same thing from twenty years ago.

Should I take tips (as in money, not advice) or something for the blog?

I'm not really in a hurry though.

As an update, I've run into some technical issues while trying to set up a blog, so that might take a while longer.

1) It's not necessarily that easy to tell someone is depressed.

2) Maybe, someone filing a lawsuit claiming damages is not a reliable source.

3) Talking to someone might be overwhelming (and there is a good chance they'll dismiss whatever they say).

Another strike against dubs. If someone isn't taking watching #anime as a passive opportunity to learn another language, then it's really not getting the full potential out of it.

It is also interesting how people kind of just let people get away with speculating things out of thin air like this, without any real basis for doing so, even though it is a very serious accusation to make.

It's like saying "someone who is known to speak to therapists committed suicide, this means that therapists make people commit suicide".