Building bridges towards new social medias

Priya

When I signed up for this class I was thinking of doing something related to this project, an air quality alert system to see if it was realistic to host it locally for less then we were paying for cloud hosting. I would still love to do that later but I'm not feeling up to doing anything high-stakes right now so I think I want to make something that is just a fun way for me and my friends to have a fun old internet communication platform. No point except to prove that we can I think. Maybe a little message board/ social media kind of thing, maybe in a future iteration it also emails people.

goals/ideas/dreams

I hate to be this perosn but im off social media rn not out of political conviction because i was so severely addicted to instagram reels that i couldn't get anything done… it has been very freeing but there are def things i miss and ive been trying to think about things i could build or use to replace little parts of it

want to make a little private message board for my friends to send photos/messages/art ect to. Nothing revolutionary but i am off insta and about to graduate i deeply miss just seeing peoples lives. will be interesting to see if i can get people in my friend group to use it. social experiment. I think it might be as simple as an etherpad — I'm drawing inspiration from how in elemetery school everyone would talk to their friends on google docs. ((( i wonder if i can find a doc….)

In a future iteration id love people to be able to opt in to have thier insta posts automatically sent there.

i also want it to have a confessional section where you can say something and then it'll be hashed beyond recognition and posted that way. I don't know why i just think it would be fun. And maybe I have some things i want to say.

Another thing that I used to use social media was a private twitter that essentially functioned as my diary. Something about the short form was so effective for me as a diary, I think because there wasn't the pressure of the blank page staring at me. I'd like to make myself a little interface that lets me do that, and stores it in a location that won't be lost (i am always losing my physical diaries and it makes me so sad … the personal archives!). I don't want it on google drive and i'm a little nervous about it being stored on yunohost until i'm more comfortable with the matinence. Maybe i could automate yunohost sending it to a proton drive or something?

install log:

Yunohost install log (i have been doing this for a while but i keep getting stuck and giving up so im going to log to stay on track! who knows how long this will last) :

Okay now we are trying to install debian and do yunohost from there instead of a direct yunohost download. I spent a long time yesterday failing at this but don't know what I was even doing I think I was just bouncing between guides so but I am restarting with proper logging this time.

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