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Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

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Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

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>Content in mataroa blogs is unfiltered and unmonitored. Users are free to publish any combination of words and pixels. However, content of animosity or disparagement of an individual or a group on account of a group characteristic such as race, colour, national origin, sex, disability, religion, or sexual orientation will be taken down immediately. >If one notices something along those lines in a mataroa blog please…

This seems far too broad, mainly because of the religious restriction. A blog on comparative religion could be removed for using the word "heterodox". Faith is a choice, unlike all the other protected characteristics in this list.

Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

#142

One nice thing I recognized is that the generated RSS feed contains full html text. I wish more blogging platforms are like this; save a lot of effort for feed readers. I'd also recommend to add open graph meta for the blog posts. Presumably people will want to share the posts somewhere; a nice set of open graph metas goes a long way.

> Presumably people will want to share the posts somewhere; a nice set of open graph metas goes a long way. Genuine question - what does this enable? I assume the big guys love the additional tagging for engaging similar content, but what else is there?

a nice looking link preview.

Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

#143
This is everything I need except analytics. I need basic analytics like page views and visitor locations. Does anyone know of a naked blog that also includes some analytics? I this there is space between simple analytics and privacy invading tracking analytics.

Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

#145
post #72

The truly naked blogging setup would be: - a git repo containing a Hugo (or similar) SSG site. – push this git repo to a couple of free private repo hosting services (GitHub, GitLab, GCP CloudCode, AWS CodeCommit etc) – and optionally use their free CI integration to generate the static site (or do it locally on your laptop). - and push to a free cloud storage (AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle etc all give storage in their fr…

I don’t enjoy the process of having to build the site and push the built site to a service like github. It adds a certain kind of friction to the process of “saving” my work that just isn’t life-giving for me.

With Jekyll, you just have your site in a `.github.io` repository, and it automatically publishes your site for you. So, the process is: write in markdown, commit, push, and then GitHub does the rest.

Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

#146

The truly naked blogging setup would be: - a git repo containing a Hugo (or similar) SSG site. – push this git repo to a couple of free private repo hosting services (GitHub, GitLab, GCP CloudCode, AWS CodeCommit etc) – and optionally use their free CI integration to generate the static site (or do it locally on your laptop). - and push to a free cloud storage (AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle etc all give storage in their fr…

I feel like Hugo / Jekyll (or equivalent) + GitHub Pages (or equivalent) is much much easier to set up. Is the resiliency really needed for your personal blog? Github Pages (which I use for my blog [0]) is pretty good at uptime afaik. [0]: https://param.codes

I also feel like Jekyll plus GitHub Pages is the easiest solution. I feel it is more minimal than the posted product. Jekyll plus GitHub is free, and aside from an initial setup and small learning curve, it is basically automatic. I am getting ready to publish my blog, and it's been nice to be able to customize things (like adding in MathJax support).

Nice theme by the way. :)

Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

#147

The truly naked blogging setup would be: - a git repo containing a Hugo (or similar) SSG site. – push this git repo to a couple of free private repo hosting services (GitHub, GitLab, GCP CloudCode, AWS CodeCommit etc) – and optionally use their free CI integration to generate the static site (or do it locally on your laptop). - and push to a free cloud storage (AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle etc all give storage in their fr…

If you want even more raw, why use git? Do you need version control for a blog? Just use S3 as a file system and serve directly from there. Can still use cloudflare if you want. If you want a templating system, it wouldn’t be hard to run a script that deterministically takes all templates in folder X and compiles them into folder Y.

Depending on your JS ethics, and care for SEO, each page could be like this, allowing you to change style and layout at a later date.

    
       
       # Markdown goes here
       * etc.
    
Where magic.js converts MD to HTML, adds CSS/Templating, and somehow if it can get a list of files from the server can produce a list of posts.

Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

#148
post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe today, but I personally stopped providing full text in the feeds of my now defunct and free from advertising blog, because my content was directly vacuumed and inserted into a spammy full of advertising website. This was around 2005 for what I can remember. Time is flying...

Unethical people is going to do whatever they can. Life is much more enjoyable if you just ignore them and whatever shit they are going to do with the content you willingly shared with the world for free.

> Life is much more enjoyable if …

That sentence has widely different endings for different people.

Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

#149

One nice thing I recognized is that the generated RSS feed contains full html text. I wish more blogging platforms are like this; save a lot of effort for feed readers. I'd also recommend to add open graph meta for the blog posts. Presumably people will want to share the posts somewhere; a nice set of open graph metas goes a long way.

> Presumably people will want to share the posts somewhere; a nice set of open graph metas goes a long way. Genuine question - what does this enable? I assume the big guys love the additional tagging for engaging similar content, but what else is there?

It lets you decide how a link you share is presented on a variety of supporting platforms, with a few bits of metadata. You can control whether/how it presents your page's title, a preview image, summary/description, and who it's attributed to. All of which are desirable for content authors, not just those platforms.

Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

#150
post #132
post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe today, but I personally stopped providing full text in the feeds of my now defunct and free from advertising blog, because my content was directly vacuumed and inserted into a spammy full of advertising website. This was around 2005 for what I can remember. Time is flying...

> my content was directly vacuumed and inserted into a spammy full of advertising website For all its faults, this is something I have no shame invoking DMCA for. You still own the copyright on your writing even if you publish it for free online.

How do you "invoke DMCA" on a random spam site? I've only heard it mentioned WRT central authority sites like YouTube, etc.
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