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Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

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Post by genmon »

kareemm wrote: post #10
chaps wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe consider that you're not their target audience.

I’m trying to understand who the target audience is. Phrasing my comment a slightly different way: what’s the point of writing *in public* if you don’t get feedback?

For me

- Writing publicly is minimum viable pressure to make me better formulate my ideas. It doesn’t require feedback; 80% of the value is in my words being public. When my ideas are better formulated, it leads to me new ideas I wouldn’t have had otherwise

- Over time (I’ve been blogging since 2000) I’ve found that the most valuable feedback is in email. You don’t get good signal to noise in comments or Web Mentions. RSS + a public email address is all I need

- I can afford for my network to grow slowly. I don’t need to build big community with flurries of debate in a comments section. Writing publicly is an excellent way to keep in touch with the broad network I already have

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Post by r2222 »

knowledge-clay wrote: post #11

Seems very similar to https://bearblog.dev — another cool project

Yeah the “example post” names Bear Blog as a direct source of inspiration.

> Created out of authentic admiration of Herman's genius idea of Bear Blog, Mataroa.blog is like Bear Blog but also a bit different. Namely, it has built-in first-class support to export your blog, and it also supports image hosting.

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Post by tomrod »

kseistrup wrote: post #19
tomrod wrote: post #5

Is self hosting an option?

It's open-source: https://git.sr.ht/~sirodoht/mataroa

Nice! $9 for annual services on top of a well constructed platform you can also self host is a really aim-for-the-moon commitment. I hope mataroa finds phenomenal success with their business.

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Post by tomrod »

cpach wrote: post #20
tomrod wrote: post #5

Is self hosting an option?

There’s always Hugo, Jekyll, Zola, right?

True. Much like Dropbox, the tooling exists beforehand. It's nice when a company brings it altogether, maintains the expert knowledgebase, and creates the process to be simple (including setup).

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Post by tomrod »

88840-8855 wrote: post #18

Looks great! I will try it out. Thank you for sharing. The pricing seems to be very fair and something that i would pay to support the project. addition: i wonder how non mainstream opinions are moderated there, e.g. conspiracy theories, pro Russian content, pro Chinese content, etc.

Re: your addition--As an oldie on the internet, this has been through a few pendulum swings. I personally think it's fine to have non-coercive weird content exist (freedom of speech sans CP and similar exploitation) without it being shoved into people's faces (newsfeed). This let's people vote with their feet.

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Post by alecst »

I was using and loved mataroa. It was the fairest, most painless option I had found for blogging (as of 2020.) I eventually switched away from it because the default font was small and I couldn’t change it. I wonder if this has been updated since. (At the moment, I’m hosting my blog as a static site with NFS. I go back and forth about wanting comments/email sign-up.)

The developers were nice though, and I used their source code to learn Django. Really grateful.

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