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opinions are open topic conversations and one of the opposing sides push t always make their opinion "my way or the highway" point.

It is no untold story politics and polarization in the USA after our Novem elections and the overwhelming Win on a candidate. AND, the fury of the opposition over the epic loss.

The dilemma now is the nuclear waste fallout withing families "DISOWNING"

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other completely. No communication, total silence and yes, the Holidays w family did not exist.

So, I guess the real question is simple. Is this appropriate and is this approach to resolve?

In our family we have one "my way" member. Their side lost this time. Either way, we know not to bring anything up (even the parts of "we" that are on the same side, too) and that is how we deal with it.

Although we've never made a united decision to do so, we don't open the topic and it usually won't come up.

* SLMR 2.1a * If worst comes to worst, you *CAN* turn most things off.

Same here, We don't discuss politics and if the one member in the minority tries to bait us with political tease or whine, we simply ignore him. He eventually either goes home or follows our conversation. It has worked wonders for us.
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I'm rooting for the Fediverse. A sysop on a network I was on and one of our callers started identica and has worked on back-end protocols for
some time. He's been involved with ActivityPub recently, just wrote the book on it.

This reminds me that I read about Gemini (the protocol, not the Google-related thing) recently.

And I feel as though there are a variety of things that would be neat to do as content that I put online.

But reliably I want to control my stuff. But there's also a problem that it'd be nice to have some amount of people _see_ the stuff, and, "just put it on my own server" isn't really useful for that. Sadly.

So, yeah, I'm also rooting for the Fediverse, as it's currently the best-available option that seems to be resistant to encrappification.

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But reliably I want to control my stuff. But there's also a problem
that it'd be nice to have some amount of people _see_ the stuff, and, "just put it on my own server" isn't really useful for that. Sadly.

There's an acronym - POSSE - Publish on your own site, Syndicate
elsewhere. You control and own your content, syndicate it to an
audience, and control where/how it gets published elsewhere.

Wordpress has publishing tools available, so your content is
automatically syndicated - but stays on your server.



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There's an acronym - POSSE - Publish on your own site, Syndicate
elsewhere. You control and own your content, syndicate it to an
audience, and control where/how it gets published elsewhere.

That _does_ seem like the way to do it.

Wordpress has publishing tools available, so your content is
automatically syndicated - but stays on your server.

...though I'm not sure I want to deal with a Wordpress install. I guess I'm biased (fairly or not) toward thinking that it's pretty heavyweight, and also connected to people who might not be reliably lined up with my interests.

But I'm not even sure what content I want on the web. I tend to wind up with wikis that I mostly use for my own stuff, rather than as something to share.

Theoretically I could write things that are more personal, but then I would want them in a restricted place, both semi-private and controlled by me.

Without having a great idea on the content, it's hard to say what the proper tool is.

That said, I had enjoyed what Octopress looked like, for blogging, though it seems to be abandonware, now. But Jekyl still exists, and that seems lightweight and easy.

But probably doesn't easily do what you're talking about.

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...though I'm not sure I want to deal with a Wordpress install. I guess I'm biased (fairly or not) toward thinking that it's pretty
heavyweight, and also connected to people who might not be reliably
lined up with my interests.

It is a little heavy for a one-person blog, but most hosting companies
can turn it into a one-click install - they even supply additional
templates or an AI page maker.

Automattic has made some off-putting moves lately, and it's a little
too much power for Matt Mullenweig. When you think that Wordpress
powers some unreal percentage of web sites on the internet, it makes me
wonder what having that kind of power can do.

But I'm not even sure what content I want on the web. I tend to wind up with wikis that I mostly use for my own stuff, rather than as something
to share.

I have a category on my blog called "Google Posterity" - for
information I'd found online that I didn't want to see dissapear.

Theoretically I could write things that are more personal, but then I would want them in a restricted place, both semi-private and controlled
by me.

I just posted on my blog about LiveJournal - it is a wonderful
long-form bloghost/social network where you can intermix public posts,
posts for close friends, posts for acquaintances, and limit access by
those group levels.

I don't know if you experienced it back in the 2000s, but it was ideal
for having a "presence" on the net for the public, a place to share
more private details among a close-knit group, and to find public
groups of people with common interests.

It was very customizable, and tweaking blog templates became an
obsession for some - and selling templates became a business
opportunity as well.

Facebook killed it off with "Short Attention Span Theater", and it's a
shadow of its former self - as well as being hosted by a Russian
company, which is a little concerning. The software is open source, and
there are other instances of it running - Dreamwidth, for one.

Writing it made me realize something about the old blogosphere - we
didn't need a reason or a theme. Mine bounced between technical posts,
photos I'd taken, and personal updates. We didn't have "brands" back
then, or even know what we were doing.

Without having a great idea on the content, it's hard to say what the proper tool is.

That said, I had enjoyed what Octopress looked like, for blogging,
though it seems to be abandonware, now. But Jekyl still exists, and
that seems lightweight and easy.

But probably doesn't easily do what you're talking about.

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