Date: 2022/11/10 - Achieving few dreams - Themes: self-promotion, self-hosting, opinions

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You know what, i said what i said about doing all the stuff on my desktop on the last article and i'll not change my opinion of it. But I don't like the text editor on my desktop. Specially the indentation. i like my text blocks indented fully like if the paragraph is indented i want the whole text to be indented not just the first line. Yes i use word wrap.

It wasn't what i wanted to talk about. I wanted to talk about self-promotion.
I always sucked at self promotion because i always think every stuff i make is not worthy enough to be promoted. Bare with me: i value the work yeah and if anyone could make it, it is not worthy. But i read few stuff about self promotion and i don't know yet. On one hand it feels like begging for attention and on the other it's a big highlight on not worthy stuff because it still has errors/unfinished/not new.
Even young i had hard time with putting me out there, like i had a deviantART for a while because it was kinda the stuff you to needed as scribbler. Back then i was bad at this game. My art was just there, and for me it's still the most important. I suck at promotion but my art was right there, right? Anyone could search it.

I tried to do a lil promo about my stream. But i realized and said Nah i'm not doing that, my stream is highly instable, on a weird platform, people will judge me.

But i'm also getting better with it, because i have my little website, and there's everything in it. ✨ I mean if i tell all that self centered stuff here it's like ok. That makes it okey, right?

One anniversary hell of a year

I'm glad to say in one year or so i've made it really far. It has been now fairly a year since the whole website thing with selfhost and i never been that proud of me for doing it. I have read countless topics, documentation, sources and did a lot of tests, tried and failed but i have also succeed to keep my server up and running.

I still think Yunohost is not for people that love to tinker up and down their infrastructure or CLI beginners but i'm right in the middle and managed to get all the things i wanted running on my X220. And i still got few tricks in my sleeves.

I'm pretty sure no ones have read my little neocities blog when it was still on the web. I talked in a long rant about my first motive in self hosting. And i remember clearly:
"How the fuck i'm supposed to get a pixelfed if i got no house".. By the way i still dont have a Pixelfed account but i've made few federated accounts; not on my server though. I've learn about my own limits to selfhost and server administration

Anyway. happy birthday little idea of being a selfhosted OG 🎉

Also, the brand new life

Also i might create a pixelfed account, because it's the endgame.
Beside that, i changed a lot of my own behavior. I still have my Facebook and Twitter accounts because it's conveniant for searching stuff. I cleared my socials, because i created those accounts in riped age of cringe teenage years.

I still depend on a Google account because of my primary mail adress. I could change this of course but i have to learn a little more and in this case, a better infrastructure than a X220 that host also other stuff. This G-Account is exclusively use for mail, browse youtube and backup of few files on drive.

I've replaced Socials with: Mastodon, Matrix and Jabber/XMPP. By the way i'm not heavily on Discord either. Mostly use as direct messaging while gaming and ghost account in community servers. I have quite a hard time using Matrix the same way i use Discord but that is a whole new topic.

The way i used G-drive is not the same at all. i've now my own online drive, in my own terms, on my server. Same for Twitch, i loved watching this ersatz of internet's TV. I watched a lot in DIY & Crafting, Science & Technology and Software & Game Developpement categories. but now i browse it once a while, because there's other stuff in more open platforms.

So far, i really like it that way. Of course i'm no fool about it. I'll try to be less dependent on proprietary stuff, be more resilient, learn how the things are working a lil more, be more open to new stuff, TRY HARDER and be a better member of the community.

Allright that's it folx. Have a nice time. i'm gonna build a guitar be sure to read the DIY post about it