Thanks for the recommendation!

It’s a bit of both. For now, the goal is to be able to create and maintain a decently looking blog without depending on any external tools, completely manually. Then, as I get comfortable managing things manually and make sure I can always fix what’s broken with nothing but a text editor, I may look into various helper options. Essentially, I just don’t want to be caught in a situation when some tools are down and I can’t do anything without them.

I’d also like to learn HTML+CSS+PHP combo, because some of the things I want to self-host make extensive use of that and I’d like to understand their inner workings to service them reliably.

That said, I’ll keep your Python advice in mind!

For now I feel like Python is just way overkill for a small personal blog that is mostly static anyway, I just want things like self-updating menus and stuff to have a little less maintenance burden going forward. But maybe I’ll reconsider as I go. In any case, my Python skills are very basic, and, applied to web development - just non-existent. It will take a while indeed.

I will probably end up reviewing what others have made, but for now I tried it and I feel it a bit overwhelming. I’d rather figure out documented use of all these elements and then read through it with good basic knowledge on my hands.

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She wants her partner to masturbate her with three fingers: two go into the pussy, one into ass. This method can be used to increase sexual stimulation as the pressure on the vaginal wall increases.

Rosy part of ice cream represents pussy (“pinky”), brown one represents ass (“stinky”).

The middle yellowish layer is most likely vanilla, she has no marks there because she wants to highlight she wants to get kinky (not “vanilla” sex, i.e. regular penetration without anything special)

Thanks! For Dummies guides are pretty amazing, didn’t know they had one about HTML+CSS :)

Will also look into themes! Currently looking into html5up.net as my inspiration, but kinda want to make my own in the end.

I do sometimes use DeepL in my professional duties, I just don’t trust it enough to translate my study material. Maybe I’m wrong about it and should give it a try, but I’d rather have it in a language I myself am comfortable with, whenever possible.

Fair enough, time to dig up some books! Any particular recommendations?

Yes, I don’t speak German much and don’t want to rely on auto translate

w3 still seems to provide the course, but the amount of their “legitimate interest” ad partners scared me off. Maybe I’ll still look into it later.

Oh, nice! I knew a bit about MDN, but didn’t know they actually provide a course. Thanks!

Yeah, the plan for now is to learn how it all works, and do it fully manually. Maybe then I’ll get scared of the complexity of what I want to do and will end up using a generator for the final thing, but for now, my goal and idea is to not rely on anything aside from the basic building blocks of the Internet. It’s both a way to study and kind of a digital independence thing. I want to make sure that, regardless of what tools can go down, I’ll still be able to keep it going as usual and skilled enough to modify it as needed. I want something that will work and adapt to my (fairly basic) needs pretty much forever.

Currently only see it in German, sadly

Currently, Linux Foundation resides in the US, though.

But I wonder… especially since 3rd-party apps do not show instance names by default, how many of such people had a run-in with Hexbear trolls and did not know how to block them all - i.e. might return if they could be assured that no hexbears would be here to harass them any longer?

PieFed (at least, piefed.zip that I tried) already has the answer - present the user opt-in global filters upon first sign-in. Allow people to block certain places, radical ideologies, or whatever - just make it a user’s choice. When that’s the case, even tankies themselves usually don’t complain.

The whole conflict is about having a blocklist that exists without users or even instance admins opting in.

Yes, I believe Dessalines came first, but now it seems like Nutomic pretty much took the reigns in maintaining the software. Hence, I listed Nutomic.

Instances hiding certain communities from main feed is a pretty normal thing, as long as it’s instance-level. I was not aware some defaults are set upon installation. Also, some transparency would be nice, if that’s the case.

And I also agree moderation actions should be more visible on Lemmy. But hey - this information is open, just poorly communicated.

In any case, thanks for extra context! I’ll take it into account.

Humans billionaires are not aware enough

Cute, even if deeply impractical for most server applications.

We need more of those weird enthusiast projects around, and we need to hear of them.

Still, going all green and then selling sets of four physical books is a little odd.

The worst part?

We are not teenagers anymore

Completely unrelated question: any recommendations for a good porn feed, besides fedinsfw.app?

It is one thing to hold an opinion; it is another to limit which opinions others can see.

Lemmy devs hold a very radical and strong opinion, but they don’t enforce it on anybody else. You can have any instances posting whatever. This fosters a healthy and open discussion and political development.

PieFed dev enforces certain optics by limiting the sources viewable through it, and some of the choices raises eyebrows in a major way. For example, did you know PieFed bans WikiLeaks? No matter the political stance, you’d rather be able to cite that. This open censorship limits political discussion and serves to reinforce Rimu’s political line instead of going for an honest intellectual exchange.

We have plenty of spaces trying to shape people’s opinion. Fediverse is the direct response to this threat among many. Why would we want to turn Threadiverse into this again?

Again, with that said, I tried to give a more neutral outline. Objectively, Lemmy the software is politically neutral, while PieFed is not. If you share the values baked into PieFed, you may end up enjoying this experience. But overall, this is often seen as problematic around these parts.

Lemmy

Technically: less often updated, may have less of the shiny features. Some see it as positive: Lemmy stays out of the user’s way.

Ideologically: devs are far-left, but the project itself is neutral. Wherever you find yourself politically, you’ll find a place.

Main dev: @Nutomic@lemmy.ml

Overall: Lemmy is a good option if you want to see the “raw” Threadiverse. Less bells and whistles, no content or moderational filters pushed on the user aside from what instance admins and users themselves decide.

PieFed

Technically: fast-paced development, “move fast and break stuff”, highly experimental, but feature-rich.

Ideologically: Liberal/moderate, enforced. All PieFed instances filter out “radical” left- or right-wing content (see no-qanon PieFed list), all user filters come on top of this list instead of replacing it. It also suffers from the backlash on some of the decisions made, such as vote throttling.

Main dev: @Rimu@piefed.social

Overall: PieFed is a shiny and new, fast-paced, but also opinionated and controversial project. Whether it’s going to be a “peace of mind” or “power tripping dev hellscape” software is only for you to experience.

Potential compromise: PyLova

PyLova is a fork of PieFed designed specifically to cut out opinionated pieces while keeping the technology.

However, it’s only currently present on quokk.au, which is itself opinionated (anarchist, far left).