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#+begin_notes
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*Sorry for the late reply*
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Please do not take it personally if I do not answer soon enough.
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After reading Digital Minimalism[fn:dm] I decided to drastically protect
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myself against most real-time notifications.
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Most of my notifications are centralized in my email.
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I try to look at my email everyday, but it not unusual if a week passes
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without checking them.
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So I'll answer, it can just take a lot of time.
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#+end_notes
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[fn:dm] http://www.calnewport.com/books/digital-minimalism/
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* Contact
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:PROPERTIES:
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:CUSTOM_ID: contact
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:END:
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- email: @@html: <a href="mailto:yann@esposito.host">Yann Esposito <yann@esposito.host></a>@@
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- keybase: https://keybase.io/yogsototh
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- gitlab: https://gitlab.esy.fun
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- *email*: @@html: <a href="mailto:yann@esposito.host">Yann Esposito <yann@esposito.host></a>@@
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Self hosted services:
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- [[https://gitlab.esy.fun/yogsototh][programming]]
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- [[https://espial.esy.fun/u:yogsototh][bookmarks]]
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- [[https://espial.esy.fun/u:yogsototh/notes][notes / micro-blog]]
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** Social Platforms
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:PROPERTIES:
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:CUSTOM_ID: social-platforms
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:END:
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- keybase: [[https://keybase.io/yogsototh][yogsototh]]
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- bookmarks: [[https://pinboard.in/u:yogsototh][u:yogsototh]]
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- lobste.rs: [[https://lobste.rs/u/yogsototh][/u/yogsototh]]
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- github: [[https://github.com/yogsototh][yogsototh]]
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- twitter: [[https://twitter.com/yogsototh][@yogsototh]]
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- reddit: [[https://reddit.com/u/yogsototh][/u/yogsototh]]
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- stack overflow: [[https://stackoverflow.com/users/40569/yogsototh][yogsototh]]
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** old websites
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:PROPERTIES:
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:CUSTOM_ID: old-websites
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:END:
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- https://yannesposito.com ✞ 2016
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- http://yann.esposito.free.fr ✞ 2007
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#+AUTHOR: Yann Esposito
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#+EMAIL: yann@esposito.host
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#+DESCRIPTION: Articles
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- [2019-09-14] *[[file:/Users/yaesposi/y/her.esy.fun/src/posts/how-i-internet.org][How I Internet]]* @@html:<div class="keywords">@@@@html:<span class="keyword">@@#blog@@html:</span>@@ @@html:<span class="keyword">@@#self-hosting@@html:</span>@@ @@html:<span class="keyword">@@#web@@html:</span>@@@@html:</div>@@@@html:<div class="description">@@How I protect myself against attention grabbing anti-patterns.@@html:</div>@@
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- [2019-08-18] *[[file:/Users/yaesposi/y/her.esy.fun/src/posts/project-el/index.org][Autoload Script by project]]* @@html:<div class="keywords">@@@@html:<span class="keyword">@@#blog@@html:</span>@@ @@html:<span class="keyword">@@#org-mode@@html:</span>@@ @@html:<span class="keyword">@@#programming@@html:</span>@@@@html:</div>@@@@html:<div class="description">@@A script I use to load safely an eLISP file when entering a new project directory.@@html:</div>@@
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- [2019-08-17] *[[file:/Users/yaesposi/y/her.esy.fun/src/posts/troll-2/index.org][Troll 2]]* @@html:<div class="keywords">@@@@html:<span class="keyword">@@#movie@@html:</span>@@@@html:</div>@@@@html:<div class="description">@@I watched what may be the worse movie of all time and I still enjoyed greatly the show.@@html:</div>@@
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- [2019-08-17] *[[file:/Users/yaesposi/y/her.esy.fun/src/posts/new-blog.org][New Blog]]* @@html:<div class="keywords">@@@@html:<span class="keyword">@@#blog@@html:</span>@@ @@html:<span class="keyword">@@#css@@html:</span>@@ @@html:<span class="keyword">@@#org-mode@@html:</span>@@ @@html:<span class="keyword">@@#programming@@html:</span>@@ @@html:<span class="keyword">@@#web@@html:</span>@@@@html:</div>@@@@html:<div class="description">@@Meta article about how I generate this blog.@@html:</div>@@
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- [2019-09-14] *[[file:/Users/esposito/dev/her.esy.fun/src/posts/how-i-internet.org][How I Internet]]* @@html:<div class="keywords">@@@@html:<span class="keyword">@@#blog@@html:</span>@@ @@html:<span class="keyword">@@#minimalism@@html:</span>@@ @@html:<span class="keyword">@@#self-hosting@@html:</span>@@ @@html:<span class="keyword">@@#web@@html:</span>@@ @@html:<span class="keyword">@@#zen@@html:</span>@@@@html:</div>@@@@html:<div class="description">@@How I protect myself against attention grabbers and many social media anti-patterns.@@html:</div>@@
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- [2019-08-18] *[[file:/Users/esposito/dev/her.esy.fun/src/posts/project-el/index.org][Autoload Script by project]]* @@html:<div class="keywords">@@@@html:<span class="keyword">@@#blog@@html:</span>@@ @@html:<span class="keyword">@@#org-mode@@html:</span>@@ @@html:<span class="keyword">@@#programming@@html:</span>@@@@html:</div>@@@@html:<div class="description">@@A script I use to load safely an eLISP file when entering a new project directory.@@html:</div>@@
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- [2019-08-17] *[[file:/Users/esposito/dev/her.esy.fun/src/posts/troll-2/index.org][Troll 2]]* @@html:<div class="keywords">@@@@html:<span class="keyword">@@#movie@@html:</span>@@@@html:</div>@@@@html:<div class="description">@@I watched what may be the worse movie of all time and I still enjoyed greatly the show.@@html:</div>@@
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- [2019-08-17] *[[file:/Users/esposito/dev/her.esy.fun/src/posts/new-blog.org][New Blog]]* @@html:<div class="keywords">@@@@html:<span class="keyword">@@#blog@@html:</span>@@ @@html:<span class="keyword">@@#css@@html:</span>@@ @@html:<span class="keyword">@@#org-mode@@html:</span>@@ @@html:<span class="keyword">@@#programming@@html:</span>@@ @@html:<span class="keyword">@@#web@@html:</span>@@@@html:</div>@@@@html:<div class="description">@@Meta article about how I generate this blog.@@html:</div>@@
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#+OPTIONS: auto-id:t
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#+begin_notes
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*Sorry for the late reply*
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Don't take it personnaly if I do not answer immediately to your comments or
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questions.
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I do not receive notification from most social media or even mail.
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I do not have any social-media platform application on my phone.
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I almost never check social media platform except GitHub.
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I check my mails once in a while.
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Sometimes a few times a day, but sometime only after a few days.
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It is a protection against real-time notifications, and urgency feeling
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that is harmful fof most people.
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---------
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TL;DR:
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- I /POSSE[fn:posse]/; Publish Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere:
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Anti-features are:
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- likes / retweets ; they provide no more benefit for us except we feel good
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by this social approval.
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- comments are useful, the problem with comments is they generate a
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notification or if not, generate us to check quite often if our output
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has generated social approval or not.
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- *notifications* ; they are here to grab your attention when you are away
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doing something else.
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- *likes / upvotes / retweets / pokes...* ; they are here to provide a "brain social
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sugar". They are not really useful but make us feel good by reinforing
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our feeling of social approval hacking our "social brain".
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More than that, we generally fall for most psychologic trick with those
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and make our production oriented to short content, mêmes, etc...
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- *comments* ; Unlike likes or retweets, comment are a lot more useful,
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they can start a discussion. They still have two problems:
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1. Public comment are subject to spam, troll, attacks, etc...
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2. Generally comments are associated to real-time notifications, and thus
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break a slower, calmer, more respectful communication channel. We are
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not all meant to react instantaneously.
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My solution to take back the control, is to generate the content using my
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own tools and broadcast those content to all other social media.
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If people react to this on some social media, I'll get a mail that will be
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put in a "social" folder.
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I forbid myself to constantly check this social folder.
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Now I control the social inputs from those social medias.
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I receive almost no notification.
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I do not have any social media application on my phone.
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Everything goes through my email, filtered in some folder.
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I only check those notifications in my email once or two times a day.
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It is not exception that I don't check those for an entier week.
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Sometime I only check the social mail folder once in a week.
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The main drawback is that not answering immediately to feedback can make me
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look like a rude person.
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I am just protecting myself from realtime and sychronous social interaction
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on Internet.
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As a result, I receive almost no notification.
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I am almost never interrupted for those social interactions.
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* Producing
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:PROPERTIES:
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:CUSTOM_ID: producing
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:END:
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** Self Hosting
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:PROPERTIES:
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:CUSTOM_ID: self-hosting
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:END:
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The first important step is to self host most of my data.
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The main drawback of course is that I can give the impression that I am
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rude by not answering immediately.
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Unfortunately I am just protecting myself.
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Unfortunately this is not as straightforward as it should be.
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The very first huge obstacle is owning a domain name and configuring the DNS.
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It is WAY too complex to buy and control easily your own domain name.
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I mean, once used to it, it is quite easy.
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But I can't imagine someone not very used to computers to be able to
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do all of that for himself in less than a few hours/days.
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If I feel this is a too big problem, I'll create an auto-responder bot that
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will nicely explain that I am sorry for the inconvenience but I can make a
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long time to answer.
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I wrote an [[file:new-blog.org][article]] sharing the details about my currentl blog platform.
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I also describe how I intend to provide a respectful blog.
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So being on the Internet, and in particular on the Web is mostly about
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consuming information and producing information.
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** RSS
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:PROPERTIES:
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:CUSTOM_ID: rss
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:END:
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It was important for me to provide an RSS feed.
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So people can follow my blog via an RSS reader.
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For now, I am not fully satisfied with it because my current system only
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provide links but not the full content in the RSS feed.
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But this is good enough for posting news later.
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** Git Broadcast
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:PROPERTIES:
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:CUSTOM_ID: git-broadcast
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:END:
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How I push to both my self-hosted repository and GitHub to take advantage
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of all social features offered by GitHub.
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I also self host a gitlab instance locally.
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That way I have an infinite number of private repositories.
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I can share my code to anyone.
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The main drawback of my self-hosted gitlab instance, is that this is not a
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social platform like Github is.
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So I duplicate all of my public repositories to Github and my origin is
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configured with both my own gitlab and github.
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Each time I make a =git push= the push is broadcasted on both my own gitlab
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instance and on GitHub.
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You can configure broadcast push with:
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#+begin_src
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git remote set-url origin --push --add <remote-url>
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git remote set-url origin --push --add <another-remote-url>
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#+end_src
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** Espial
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:PROPERTIES:
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:CUSTOM_ID: espial
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:END:
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[[https://github.com/jonschoning/espial][espial]] is an open-source, web-based bookmarking server.
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It is a very easy to install single binary.
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Perfect if you want a self-hosted bookmark web application.
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This tool is written in Haskell, and I made a few pull request to add RSS
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feeds of my public bookmarks as well as an RSS feed for my public notes.
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Notes, are simply text you save, you can make them public or private.
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** node-red
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:CUSTOM_ID: node-red
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:END:
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[[https://nodered.org][node-red]] is a tool that make it easy to write /flows/.
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I use it to syndicate my self-hosted content to social media platforms.
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Each time I save a new public bookmark, a new blog post, a new note, I
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tweet it.
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* Consuming
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:CUSTOM_ID: consuming
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:END:
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So far I explained how I syndicate my content on multiple platform on the
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Internet.
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The main advantage is I own my data and all platform only get the link to
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my content.
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** Emacs elfeed
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Internet consumption evolved a lot.
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Just think about the few first pages you visited a few years ago and today.
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People tend to consume on their smartphones and generally inside a social
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media platform dedicated application.
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You are generally presented with an inifinite scroll media content.
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Most of the time either video or photos.
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Sometime with a link to some website, often behind a paywall.
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And a lot about things easy to digest.
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A cute cat, an image with a joke, a funny video, and once in a while like
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very rare, a real important information about someone you care about or a
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big news.
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Most of the time, the news will be part of a polemic.
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Because polemic is a very efficient attention grabber.
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While I am totally fine with a bit of entertainment and polemic, the level
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at which we are currently exposed right now can be quite harmful.
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First thing to think about, why are we so eager to /news/?
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Why not feel the same about old but great content?
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Before all those news system, we were /active/ during our information
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consumption.
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We started from a search engine and /searched/ something.
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Now, we still use search engines, but it is really about searching and not
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trying to /discover/ something new.
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This is also something to keep in mind.
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** News
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:PROPERTIES:
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:CUSTOM_ID: news
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:END:
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So my entry point to news consumption are:
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- highly selected RSS sources (for example HN posts with > 500 upvotes)
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- [[https://lobste.rs][lobste.rs]]
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- [[https://pinboard.in/popular/][popular pinboard.in bookmarks]]
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- very few sub-reddits with small volume
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- [[https://laarc.io][laarc.io]]
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- [[https://fermatslibrary.com][Fermat's Library newsletter]]
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I plan on generating RSS from those different sources with "smart filters".
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Typically number of upvote filters for lobste.rs, laarc.io, sub-reddits,
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but also number of bookmarks in popular pinboard, etc...
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I really enjoy staying inside emacs as much as I can.
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This is a clean, dense, text-oriented environment.
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*** Emacs elfeed
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:PROPERTIES:
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:CUSTOM_ID: emacs-elfeed
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:END:
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One of my most useful tool to get news is RSS.
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As I said, one of my most useful tool to get news is RSS.
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In particular I consume it inside Spacemacs using [[https://github.com/skeeto/elfeed][elfeed]].
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I also use elfeed-org to organize my feeds ans I also take care to remove
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I still get notifications on Github because I use it a lot for my work.
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But only email and web notifications, not desktop notifications.
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So even for Github, I can take a lot of time to react.
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So even for Github, I can take a few days to react.
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* Producing
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:PROPERTIES:
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:CUSTOM_ID: producing
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:END:
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Another very important aspect of Internet and the Web is the ability to
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produce an output and give it to someone else far away.
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For now I only have two circles, myself and fully public.
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I will certainly endup with strategies to put intermediate circles of
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publications in the future.
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It is good enough for now.
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** Self Hosting
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:PROPERTIES:
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:CUSTOM_ID: self-hosting
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:END:
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A first important step for me was to self host most of my data.
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I wrote an [[file:new-blog.org][article]] sharing the details about my currentl blog platform.
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I also describe how I intend to provide a respectful blog.
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** RSS
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:PROPERTIES:
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:CUSTOM_ID: rss
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:END:
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It was important for me to provide an RSS feed.
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So people can know when I update my blog.
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For now, I am not fully satisfied with it because my current system only
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provide links but not the full content in the RSS feed.
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But this is good enough for my current usage.
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** Git Broadcast
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:PROPERTIES:
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:CUSTOM_ID: git-broadcast
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:END:
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I configured all my public repositories to be pushed both on my self-hosted
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Gitlab instance and GitHub.
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That way I host my own content, while still using to my advantages the
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social feature of Github.
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You can configure your git repositories to push to multiple url by:
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#+begin_src
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git remote set-url origin --push --add <remote-url>
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git remote set-url origin --push --add <another-remote-url>
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#+end_src
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** Espial
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:PROPERTIES:
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:CUSTOM_ID: espial
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:END:
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[[https://github.com/jonschoning/espial][espial]] is an open-source, web-based bookmarking server.
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It is a very easy to install single binary.
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This is perfect if you want to self-host your bookmarks while having some publics.
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This tool is written in Haskell, and I made a few pull requests to add RSS
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feeds of my public bookmarks as well as an RSS feed for my public notes.
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Notes, are simply text you save, you can make them public or private. I
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tend to use it as my "micro-blogging". For the time when I just want to
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write a short remark and not a full blog post article.
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** node-red
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:PROPERTIES:
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:CUSTOM_ID: node-red
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:END:
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[[https://nodered.org][node-red]] is a tool that make it easy to write /flows/.
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I use it to syndicate my self-hosted content to social media platforms.
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Each time I save a new public bookmark, a new blog post, a new note, I
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tweet it.
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* Conclusion
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:PROPERTIES:
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:CUSTOM_ID: conclusion
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:END:
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This is how I can still use mainstreamsocial media platform while not
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allowing those to optimize their attention grabbing algorithm on me.
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So I described how while still using centralized social media platform, I
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still own my data, I protect myself from new attention grabbing features
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and design / UX pattern changes in those platforms.
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I just take what I find positive in them, but do not pay the price of the
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negativity of those platforms.
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Mostly, I take the positive aspect of those platform while not paying most
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of the negative price.
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For now my system is quite tailored made, and adapted to me.
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I think we could imagine that we could offer that to more people by having
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a single, easy to create platform.
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The bit sad state, is that I know there are a few system that try to make
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it easy for more people to self-host, or host to a friend, smaller community.
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But this is still reserved to technical savy people.
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it easy for more people to self-host, or provide self-hosting for a smal
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community or family.
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But this is still reserved to technical people in my opinion.
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I think starting from espial we could create a simple small platform to
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I think we could be inspired by espia to create a simple small platform to
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provide those feature to most people.
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- ability to blog/microg blog and syndicate
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- ability to publish securly private infos to a small group of friends and family
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- generate RSS for different group of peoples
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For me this is kind of superior to federation and mastodon, etc...
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Mastodon, unfortunately replicate the anti-features of twitter, facebook,
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and other social media platforms.
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I would personally prefer that to a Federation platform (like Mastodon).
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Unfortunately the federated network mostly replicate the anti-features of twitter, facebook,
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and other social media platforms. While I believe we should change our
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consumption habit.
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RSS is already a great tool for that.
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