Argh! 😰

You’re right, I didn’t dig past a first glance, and I missed [counts fingers] some 60+ years worth of copy/pasting…

Looking good. I have to ask, considering what I have ahead of me — that newsblog going back to 2022, are those all Hubzilla-native posts, or did you import the older ones from another CMS?

Ooh, thanks! That didn’t turn up in my searches. Are you involved with this?

I’ll try to get by with my rusty schoolbook German, and browser translations if needed 👍

I was hoping for advice on the list I’d gathered, but you’re not making it shorter, Julian 😄

Thanks for the offer! I’ll bookmark this and put it forward to my co-admins. I’ll have to look into Wagtail myself a bit, too. 👍

Our first priority will be to migrate the site as fluently as possible to whatever CMS we transition to. Archiving it as HTML and starting from scratch with a new platform — that’s a last ditch effort, I think.

[Edit: I tried to cover the WP fork subject here]

Hugo as a longterm solution isn’t going to float with some of our users, I’m afraid. I can vividly imagine somebody turning the old site into a single “Hello world!” page given that kind of permissions.

We will need strictly limited access for contributors, and a clear, friendly input field for text…

maybe go for a combination of them

This is a very practical solution… until somebody (I suspect me) has to maintain three or more installs instead of one 🙂 But you’re right, this could very well be a way to solve the “one size fits none” conundrum.

As for using a WP fork — the point about the ActivityPub plugin breaking compatibility with ClassicPress makes me wary of this approach. And AFAICT ClassicPress is one of the more reliable WP forks out there? In the long term, I mean.

I’m fine with switching my personal browsers if/when one or the other FF fork turns to the dark side, but I wouldn’t want to hop this site between different WP forks the same way…

Thanks for the suggestions! I realise preserving URLs is perhaps the tallest order here, and that we may have to set up redirection to the new ones.

Failing that, archiving (a static version of) the site could definitely be an option. Considering the long history of the site though, our first choice is continuity over an abrupt break.

Agreed, Nextcloud has gone from a lean little personal cloud to a hulking enterprise hub.

If you’re after something that’ll just sync your files between devices, try Syncthing. If you need files available online, maybe something like filestash or, like somebody else suggested, SFTPgo.

There are also tiny, lean calendar and contact server apps out there if you decide you need those. After self hosting NC for years I’m really happy spreading out the tasks over dedicated services rather than having all my eggs in one basket.

all the militaristic language

All of those two examples you cherrypicked?

You have demonstrated your reading retention abilities already, just jog on as suggested 🤝

If you want to be taken seriously, or at least get a constructive reply — don’t open with “If you want to be taken seriously”. It reads really condescending, and I’m going to have to assume that’s your intention.

So here goes:

Assume that even if you don’t immediately understand the context, one probably exists outside your frame of reference. If the post catches your interest, look up that context. Otherwise, move along.

Don’t expect other users on a discussion board to take you to by the hand and explain the circumstances leading up to this point in history. If you do, please don’t act like you’re the keeper of the style guide (see preamble).

For full clarity, I did not post this for you as a bumper introduction to the backs and forths of the Fediverse symbol feuds, but to signal for those already in the know that the frontline is shifting.

TL;DR — this wasn’t for you, don’t demand that it be customised to your measures.

like, on matrix or something 😄

But the Lemmy project and specific instances are not so easily separated. From the archived mastodon thread:

lemmy.ml (the official Lemmy instance) resolves to the same IP address as lemmygrad.ml (the instance that contains the most disturbing material).

Lemmy.ml also federates with lemmygrad, and the devs advertise lemmygrad on their “join lemmy” site.

Do the Lemmy developers themselves run the lemmygrad.ml site? (Its main logo is a tank, incidentally.)

So yeah, newcomers are presented with a join-lemmy site that promotes Lemmygrad and Lemmy ML, both of which appear to be run by the Lemmy devs.

That pretty much makes it a Lemmy problem.

Well, apparently you consider basic maintenance like changing tires superfluous to driving. Says all I need to know about your mindset on the other subjects.

Stop being nerds helplessly unskilled

FTFY

Why are nerds so insistent that people understand technology?

Because technology forms the basis of the online environments we inhabit, and gives us the tools to tell how, say, our data is stored and processed.

If you’re going to get in the water, it’s probably a good skill to be able to swim. If you’re going to drive a car and don’t have the faintest idea how the engine works, you’ll be at the mercy of manufacturers and mechanics.

The solution to your issue is not that everybody should conform to the lowest common denominator of technology literacy, but that the general internet user should get a fucking idea of the environment they navigate.

Stop being nerds

Never.