@syndikalista I don't know. Been thinking a lot about it though.

Reddit's principle advantaages have been good search (I caan find my stuff) and modestly decent community.

Conversation's never taken hold -- the conversation dynamic is broken. I don't own my own forum (90 days of inactivity, I think, and someone else can take it over. No export tool (though the API might afford that).

Image hosting is weak.

I'm thinking more about toolchain

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@dredmorbius i see a lot of discourse-instances these days. but i do not know if they are hard to maintain and how well they are working

@syndikalista What's discourse? Centralised orfederated? Proprietary or Free Software?

@dredmorbius i guess it is not federated, more single instance discussion boards with a different gui: discourse.org

@syndikalista There's way too much friction to my writing. Much of it comes from the browser, an Reddit sucks for long-term composition.

If I can move to a local authoring, management, and trackin of sstatus (draaft, submitted, repurposed, etc) things go better.

Vim, markdown, git. Possibly a local wiki engine I can manage stuff in. Looking at static blog eengines. Maybe gitlab.

I cannot self-host because reasons.

There's my Dreamwidth blog.

Multiple options. No one clear.

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@dredmorbius I’ll host an Oddmuse instance for you in Switzerland, for free, if you’d like. Not sure what your reasons are for not self-hosting but if the main issue is a credit card requirement, that would be a way around it.

@kensanata Thanks. Offer is appreciated.

@syndikalista @dredmorbius

It's still a way off, but @prismo is in development, it's a federated reddit alternative.