I hadn’t heard of NodeBB before… but it looks awesome!?!!!

This was a fun read.

I love protocols. Awareness of the protocols that rule us, and a willingness to hack on them and improve them, is (I believe) the path forward to save humanity from what capitalism currently is (a planet-gorging evil that makes Galactus look like a tin soldier).

@bacardi55@social.bacardi55.io on not putting web mentions and comments on the blog.

This site doesn’t allow to add or display any user generated content (UGC). One could argue that I can’t because this is a static site, but it could be easy to add comments via discuss or an opensource alternative like Isso or Chirpy.

Q: Can Bear Blog be self-hosted?

A: Bear Blog has been built as a platform and not as an individual blog generator. It is more like Substack than Hugo. Due to this it isn’t possible to individually self-host a Bear Blog.

But that wasn’t the question, which was: can other instances of the platform be spun up?

I don’t know for sure but it does seem that way. It’s MIT licensed & it seems to be all there, caddy files and all. IDK.

So far, stumbling over a blog on Bear has been a heck of a lot less painful than stumbling over one on say, Medium. And I am grateful that there are alternatives to asking people to self host generated static files.

In the long run all “up-and-coming” sites usually are super nice with RSS & low-weight & interoperability & free icecream but what matters is whether that lasts. That said, Medium sucked from day one and this seems awesome several years in, so 🤷🏻‍♀️