Unfortunately, the lead developer of Ladybird, Andreas Kling, has engaged in transphobia and enforced misogynistic language in his previous project's documentation, SerenityOS. This post documents and links to multiple examples: https://toot.cat/@EveHasWords/114081930465217200
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Long story short Activity Pub only pulls the content it needs from remote servers when it needs it and can choose how to handle media (serve the original or cache and proxy). It already is similar-ish to a CDN.
AT-Proto is super complex, but my understanding is that a new server (app in AT-Proto parlance) needs to copy everything beforehand from all others, and needs to constantly replicate everything, wether it will be served or not, making the data transfers intractably massive.
Going forward, there will be a new Reels feed that includes videos that your friends have liked or commented on, so you can see what your friends have watched and what they like. Your friends will also be able to see the videos that you have liked, which is something to be aware of.
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Instagram used to have a dedicated Activity feed that offered up this information, but it was removed several years ago. It is not yet known if Instagram plans to provide an opt-out for the new feed.
This is a bit terrifying privacy wise. I've heard dubious things back when the activity feed was a thing about how it was used. This feels like a recipe for outing people in personal ways they didn't expect, especially after they probably got used to Instagram likes not being exactly anonymous but close enough as they didn't get disclosed to other people.
Your blog post reminds me of my adventures working as a sysadmin at my university from quite awhile ago ๐ especially having to rush to fix the broken computers before the next class started ๐
About the website itself, I find it really cool that you made it yourself, and the vibe really reminds me of old geocities blogs ๐
Given the strong feedback given so far, I will provide a few ideas of the tiniest changes I think you can do that will make it a better website:
Currently your blog post is separated into a day per page. It gives it a sort of diary or star trek's "captain's log" feel, but for fast readers it isn't that practical, and the next button is often assumed to be for the next article, not the next section of the current article.
I would switch that pagination for a single page, with nice big titles splitting it. Don't be afraid of putting a lot of text on the same page, that's what blogs are for and your readers will thank you! ๐
And second (on Firefox for Android at least), is that the font size for the blog post only is a bit too big. About 3 to 4 words at most fit into each line, which makes it disruptive to read. The font size on the rest of the website is fine though! Double check if other mobile browsers have the same quirk, maybe this is something specific, but if it is universal, I would shrink it a bit and target about 7 to 8 words per line, that allows the flow of reading to be much easier. Make sure you don't shrink the font size too much though, otherwise people will have to squint their eyes to read ๐
With these two changes, I think your blog will have a nice balance of retro style with usability ๐
Some people mention static website generators and other things, I think you don't need those for the start of your adventure in making your website, but in the long run it might be a fun idea to adapt your theme into a static site generator like hugo, which uses go, which you already know, or jekyll or one of the others. They give you additional cool features like RSS feeds so people can subscribe and be notified when you publish a new post, and make it easier to change the same thing across all pages, all while keeping everything super simple and generating static html and css that you upload to your server. But for now, your website is really cool and you should be happy for it!