I'd prefer to write markdown, publish to my static site, and cross-post to social media. I imagine I'd also want to get an overview of - or make an ad-hoc post from - one of several accounts on one of several platforms.

I came across Posse Party and Postiz, both of which are self-hosted. It doesn't seem like either is built for this use case.

Which direction would you go in?

FWIW, "write markdown, publish to my static site, and cross-post to social media" is exactly what I built POSSE Party to do. All your site needs is an Atom feed to read from https://github.com/searlsco/posse_party/blob/main/docs/feed....

https://justin.searls.co/atom.xml gets flung to 8 social accounts

China liberalized their economy to compete with Western economies, showing their leaders don’t really believe in communism.

And the US and Europe are moving towards command economies to keep up with China, showing their politicians don’t really believe in liberalism.

Liberalized? You mean "you can come here as long as I can copy/paste your products and push you out of business"?

That's what liberal economies are about, right. :)

No, I mean they did things like privatized state businesses, allowed entrepreneurs to start their own businesses, and created special economic zones.

If Valve limited credit card purchases to PG games, but let customers purchase other games via crypto, then payment processors couldn’t complain about alleged high chargeback rates or association with adult content.

I imagine payment processors wouldn’t love this solution, but at that point they’re just asking for full editorial control, and we should resist.

Not necessary. They could just keep almost everything as-is with normal credit card processors, but for adult stuff, just use the same kind of processors other adult sites use. Those have a lot worse rates from what I hear, but still way more accessible than crypto

Wow, thanks for the warning that Couchers bans naturists. I am aware of many unique and beautiful experiences by naturists hosts. It’s disappointing that Couchers would want to eliminate them.

Self censorship resulting from pressures from the likes of Visa, MasterCard, Google Play and Apple's App store when the law doesn't forbid it. This is the problem when the world is run by monopolies. Laws don't mean anything, companies effectively make them.

There are other reasons to not want to deal with issues resulting from non-traditional lifestyles beyond that pressures from payment processors and pretending otherwise is a little silly.

I'm pretty sure payment providers aren't the reason why Couchers decided to ban those offerings.

I’ve been having trouble with Pocket’s offline mode and TTS feature for a while, and just migrated (yesterday!) to Obsidian via Obsidian Web Clipper (automated using Pupeteer).

Obsidian doesn’t have all the features necessary for a read-it-later app, but almost!

Obsidian cannot access your notes even if you use the Sync service (it's end-to-end encrypted)

Is it open source? Can anyone confirm that? What keeps it from changing in the future? I don’t have anything crazy sensitive, but I’m mindful of getting my info sold to advertisers.

> I wish there were better ways to align incentives here.

I have a crazy idea that might work to hold organizations accountable if they never get anything done.

That mentality is exactly what leads to the problem. You want to hold everyone organization accountable for every perceived failing which leads them to optimize towards a state where they can justify existence but do as little as possible to minimize the potential for any perceived failing.

I was talking about market accountability. Companies that don’t get anything done fail.

Oo! Oo! Is it a free and fair public election?

Fake privacy experts like Caro Robson need to be held accountable.

I often notice journalistic pieces interview people and then use maybe 30 seconds' worth of material from a 20-minute interview. The "expert" could have condemned it in any number of ways until the topic of applying data protection laws came up and she said that companies need to be held accountable (could be about GDPR, could be about snooping laws) which the journalist then quoted, not out of malice but because everyone already condemns it and this is the most interesting statement of the interview

Anyway, so while I don't think we should condemn people based on such a single quoted sentence... I took a look at her website and the latest video reveals at 00:38 that she worked for the UK crime agency, which does sound like the one of the greatest possible conflicts of interest for someone called upon for privacy matters rather than crime fighting. Watching the rest of that interview, she approaches it fairly objectively but (my interpretation of) her point of view seems to be on the side of "even with this backdoor, a warrant needs issuing every time they use it and so there's adequate safeguards and the UK crime fighters and national security people should just get access to anything they can get a warrant for"

Assuming you’ve framed it fairly, that’s a pretty atrocious point of view for someone calling themselves a privacy expert to hold. A privacy expert should know that backdoors are dangerous to privacy even if you trust the people who are supposed to have the keys.

I check for an RSS feed, and if it does not exist, subscribe via KTN.

It would be awesome if KTN provided an easy way to upgrade/redirect at KTN feed to an original feed, if one exists. I'm not sure how conveniently redirects would be handled by RSS clients...

A lot of communities use Discourse (https://discourse.org).

LPSF (https://forum.lpsf.org) migrated to it when Yahoo Groups was discontinued.

Some of the advantages are that it's open source, self-hostable, and can be configured to work as both a traditional mailing list and modern forum.

"an employee disrupted a coworker who was giving a presentation — interfering with an official company-sponsored event"