I particularly like using it to capture a snapshot of the website for, say, my paid newsletter subscriptions that I might want to read later. That way if I do let my subscription lapse, I can still access the content I already paid for.

In their heads what they’re actually saying is ‘moral rights.’ As in “I have a moral obligation to destroy trans kids.” Everything else is, as you said, a dog whistle. But if it’s a MORAL right, then it doesn’t matter what anyone else is doing because they are wrong and an enemy.

He’s pretty active on Bluesky if you want something bad but not AS bad to follow on.

Welcome to self-hosting! I hope you have fun learning stuff. I’m still kind of on the lower-end of the intermediate scale myself, so I’m hoping they’ll be using dockers and docker-compose once the self-host docs are up.

Right now I do think it has screen share, but it doesn’t allow you to share audio at the same time (known bug). Bummer for me too.

I’m just glad that Discord pushed back their age verification stuff for at least a few months so there’s room for Stoat, Fluxer, etc to get some work done.

Agree that tumblr sucks, but if you can find a public instance of (or self-host) priviblur it’s much more tolerable.

When did you last check the self-hosting documentation? I just poked my head into it and there’s a big post talking about why they’d rather people wait on self-hosting.

That said if you liked Fluxer but are not satisfied with it right now (which is completely understandable. It’s in beta, after all, not a finished product), I’d say check back in 2-3 months. I would bet that the self-hosting is ready to go by then, judging by the rate of how other things have been updating.

Maybe some people will migrate things back out. I wound up moving a bunch of stuff to a self hosted wiki.

I’ve also always liked how old school forums are structured. Nice, neat categories and most active/recent stuff on top.

Love this but I will say that “IRL enshittification” is absolutely a thing. Just take shrinkflation for example.

La’Ron Readus has an interesting video essay on this called ‘The Siren’s Scapegoat’ that I recommend giving a watch if you’re interested on the way movies have handled women being overtly sexual!

If you’ve got a few proverbial hours and an active interest in the subject, we could talk about the roots of patriarchy in modern day society and how they influence all of those things.

If you don’t, then I shall shrug and wish you a good day.

I say this as someone with a nebula account and likes to watch stuff from nebula: I strongly dislike their website. My biggest annoyance is I can’t go to a specific creator’s page and search for videos that I know exist, I have to scroll through their entire history searching for it.

I had a mental health professional suggest using ChatGPT to make a day planner, it fucking floored me. We are not in the majority here and it sucks when that sinks in.

Interesting post from Fedora on this https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/california-age-verification/181968/6

Yep. Grabbed mine a few years ago because of the writing on the wall. I’ll treat it like those old school hardback encyclopedias.

They do have those things from what I can tell.

Fluxer apparently has that on their roadmap. https://blog.fluxer.app/roadmap-2026/

As part of #3, I’d also like to add the ability to publish forums to the open web. That way, people can discover, archive, and access discussions without logging in.