Still not sure what to do about Fediverse/Masterdon. Choice is between installing a server or writing my own. Writing my own is a bunch of work, which also counts as fun, gives me control, all that jazz. Installing an existing server is (or should be) much less work, but I have to take it's opinion on how things work.

Also, I'm still not convinced that it's worth the effort. I didn't get that much traction on Twitter, and I'm fairly sure that most of the people I'd want to follow have moved, or are planning to.

And I have to remember that a server isn't a client, although I could probably combine the two.

I could write a feed reader (which has the advantage that I could casually subscribe to blogs), or I could write a feed-to-fed gateway (which probably isn't a bad place to start. Hmm)


I need to make some choices about data storage, and really I think I mean that I've got to accept Entity Framework into my life.

Maybe the switch from Postgres to SQLite was a mistake. Yes, SQLite has a much lower footprint, and is easier to recover data from (theoretically, at least), but the EF migration stuff is pretty neat, and Postgres has a bunch of neat toys (and I should sort out some kind of useful "backup to text" system anyway).

wepiu has plenty of resources, and it's easy enough to script "create a db/create a user". Maybe I should swap back.

Before I do, I want a sensible set of rules so that different apps don't step on each others toes. Posibly including separating out auth from webmail. Hmm. Again.


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