Forked cors-anywhere to replace cors-proxy.fringe.zone with cors.rosano.ca in Joybox, OSFeedbox, and home.
YunoHost has an ‘Edit’ button on their homepage which lets you directly modify the content and send them a ‘patch’.
I wasn’t able to submit my change because of a ‘File not found’ error, but still find it fascinating to not require people to use GitHub or Git in order to contribute.
The logic is in the seemingly random ‘gertrude’ repository (which has not much of a README or description for what it is, and it looks like the ‘patch’ is just the full HTML page content; perhaps someone can manually integrate it later. They claim to require email verification to catch spam before actually sending the change.
If it was possible to put a mailto on the internet without spam, it could remove friction from this kind of collaboration and create steps for people to do larger things.
Start where you are instead of implementing a concept, especially somebody else’s concept—an overarching strategy isn’t necessary.
Only on #Mastodon do I see people judging others being on #Substack and #X, seemingly implying that they are better humans for not being on it.
Purist reductions of any platform and the people there to it’s worst policy is lazy; it’s harder and more meaningful to actually help.
When confronted with a choice between more financial security (stability) or more meaning, what would persuade you to pursue the latter?