Always michael scotting his way through a fragment of a thought

So cool to learn about these, thanks! I’ve tried and failed to self-host Nextcloud in the past, but really need to give it another go. Their contacts app is also something I’ve wanted for a while now.

This looks promising, thank you! I’m a novice self-hoster and look forward to learning more about this one.

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Almost certainly not, but good on WaPo for calling it out so well.

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For real. This one got me the best:

“We held a meeting and decided being radically open about gender while adopting a puritanical outlook on sex was the best way to shock Boomers to death.”

Amazing self-own admitting that the internet and public schools are your ideological enemies:

According to Boreing: “Kids go to school for 40 hours a week and then they engage in pop culture for 40 more hours every week. That means for 80 hours of a child’s week, you are turning them over to the left. A good parent might spend 15 minutes a day in meaningful conversation with their kids … A great parent might take their kid to church for one hour, or two hours, or three hours a week. The other 80, they’re watching Disney … they’re online … they’re in public schools.”

Even their non-political statements are political. I hate that some people don’t see through this shit:

In a video statement on Monday marking Bentkey’s launch, Boreing said: “Bentkey isn’t about teaching kids politics, it’s about childhood and wonder and adventure. It’s about values and all of the things on which politics are built later.”

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I’ve been using it for 3 months and enjoy it too. It’s especially nice that you can add new books to the database yourself. In Goodreads you had to join a group, message the admins, and pray to Odin. It’s great that Bookwyrm copies over your Goodreads books and reviews. At the moment I rarely visit the site, only to bulk-post book reviews, check my feed, and see who’s on the discover page. Like my experience with all federated stuff so far, people there are more quiet, private, and reserved, which doesn’t lend super well to a review database. So I still check a book’s reviews on Goodreads before getting it.

I was happy to find an alternative though. Distancing from Amazon is for the best, and to make it easier Goodreads recently went through an awful design change. Everything on the page is bigger, more book data is hidden, and some data disappeared completely. They also refuse to make a dark mode and have a buggy app. Bookwyrm being federated with the ability to boost reviews is nice too.