tumblr thread from ballsballsbowls and schafpudel: If you want a user-funded indie socmed, you’re going to need to accept that images and video are costly, and always have been; the true cost has just been hidden from you for the last two decades. […] Re-orient around text.
Markdown and the Slow Fade of the Formatting Fetish: with the caveat that this is a blog post from a company that develops a markdown text editor, good points are made here
- compared to conventional word processors, notably MS Word, markdown editors prioritize content rather than visual aesthetics
- moving away from proprietary file formats to make human-readable documents the standard loosens corporate control over the way we write
permacomputing, solarpunk, being judicious with the material resources required for digital infrastructure (especially at non-corporate scale)
Curious about gemini protocol but have yet to explore it