While I haven't tried Minds yet beyond simply getting an account, I wanted to point one thing about MeWe compared to G+, and other social sites in general. MeWe has no public posting. By this I mean that the only people who can see your posts are your contacts if you simply make a post, and the groups that you join if you make a post in one of those specific groups. No-one can search the public timeline for them. There is re-sharing. The good news is that there are a lot of groups. The other…
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I was originally going to post something else, but since Google fucked up and then decided that the best way to announce it was to shut down Google+, people have been scrambling to find other homes even if G+ will still be around a while. You can find me at MeWe [https://mewe.com/i/last.redoubt], as well as on idka and on Oneway [https://oneway.com/lastredoubt/]. Anyone following me on G+ should likely find me on MeWe or one of the other groups, but I think the MeWe groups functionality will wo…
I know I gave an overview of my impressions so far, but previously had written about it from my point of view, of a guy who’d had some experience with spinning up virtual servers, coding database driven website, and html. So, let’s take a look at what people are complaining about in ghost. Most of these are from this whiny straw man filled post here [http://billpatrianakos.me/blog/2015/02/10/ghost-the-overrated-blogging-platform] . * It’s just the new hotness * It requires command line setup…
People forget that Car Wars was pretty much an RPG where the car was your character. Jeffro brings out Car Wars to show that, if you are worried about the plot of your adventure, you're doing it wrong [https://jeffro.wordpress.com/2018/08/27/should-rpg-campaigns-have-a-plot/]. > The question is asked, “What are your favorite ways of coming up with an engaging campaign plot line for role playing games?” My answer to this is that it’s an inherently wrongheaded question: If your campaign has a pl…
While I'd already done enough digging around to know that Ghost would be a good platform to migrate to, there were nevertheless a few things that caught me by surprise. One moderately miffing me, the others for the better. Migration This was the big win. One could kindof get content exported out of wordpress in preparation for Joomla, and ditto Drupal, the latter has convergence issues, and while the backend has some fantastic ideas, the infrastructure is not turnkey for individuals who just wa…