4.3 KiB
How I Internet
Sorry for the late reply
Don't take it personnaly if I do not answer immediately to your comments or questions.
I do not receive notification from most social media or even mail. I do not have any social-media platform application on my phone. I almost never check social media platform except GitHub.
I check my mails once in a while. It can be a few times a day, but it is not unusual not to check my mail for a few days or even an entiere week.
It is a protection against real-time notifications, and urgency feeling that is harmful fof most people.
TL;DR:
Intro
Our usage of the Internet changed a lot in recent years. The book Digital Minimalism5 explains quite clearly how Internet and many social platforms are really useful but at the same can harm us.
The harm mostly come from social anti-pattern that are mostly hacking our brain. More precisely owr lower part of the brain, the one close to the instinct which is quite difficult to tame. This is why this is the preferred target of those "brain hacks".
Anti-features are:
- likes / retweets ; they provide no more benefit for us except we feel good by this social approval.
- comments are useful, the problem with comments is they generate a notification or if not, generate us to check quite often if our output has generated social approval or not.
So now, I how my own blog on my own server with my own domain name. And I publish things, but I only check the outcome once or two times a day. I receive no notification, I do not have any social media application on my phone. The social media "reactions" are filtered in my email, put in some directory and checked once in a while (no more than twice a day, generally only a few times a week).
The drawback is that it can feel rude for people not to be answered fast. I am sorry, but it is a protection for my sanity.
Producing
Self Hosting
The first important step is to self host most of my data.
Unfortunately this is not as straightforward as it should be. The very first huge obstacle is owning a domain name and configuring the DNS. It is WAY too complex to buy and control easily your own domain name. I mean, once used to it, it is quite easy. But I can't imagine someone not very used to computers to be able to do all of that for himself in less than a few hours/days.
I wrote an article sharing the details about my currentl blog platform. I also describe how I intend to provide a respectful blog.
TODO RSS
Describe that it is important to provide an RSS feed as a nice standardized root to publishing.
TODO Git Broadcast
How I push to both my self-hosted repository and GitHub to take advantage of all social features offered by GitHub.
TODO Espial
Describe espial, and how I changed it.
TODO node-red
Describe node-red and how I use it.
TODO Consuming
TODO Emacs elfeed
TODO Mail
Only use mail