Introducing Tidbits

Tidbits is a blog that will contain my social media posts and whatever else I decide to make available on the web. I will use links to this blog on social media sites instead of posting content on those sites. Below is a list of some of my reasons for starting Tidbits.

Tidbits lets me have total control of my social media posts, and it simplifies how I post on social media. The blog is not subject to censorship, it contains no ads or similar shit, and it uses no AI whatsoever. There are no limits governing the length or the content of a post. I can add, update, and delete content at will. The appearance of a post is determined by me.
Tidbits is self-contained—it uses no resources other than those uploaded to the server hosting the site. Tidbits is a static site using HTML, CSS, PDF, and common media files for images, audio, and video. No JavaScript is used by the site. The website places no cookies on a user's web browser, visitors to the site are not tracked or targeted in any way, and they are not required to create an account or log in to view the site's content.
The Tidbits website is a responsive site that should work well on any device. The site's content is covered under a Creative Commons license that permits sharing. The CSS used by a post contains code that allows users to make a nice printed version of the post. Downloading of PDF, image, audio, and video files is not hampered, and links are provided to make the downloading of PDF, audio, and video files easy.
Following Tidbits does not require logging into a social media account—one may subscribe to the blog using its web feed (see below). Tidbits is an independent publication that is not subject to the whims of any entity other than myself.
Finally, Tidbits is fun for me.

Tidbits Source Code

Tidbits is developed in Emacs in a single Org Mode file (except for the CSS and the web feed). The image below shows a portion of that plain text file.

Using Org Mode makes it easy for me to create new posts and to export the results to HTML. I use Git for version control, and the self-contained nature of Tidbits means that it can be hosted anywhere—I do not have to depend on the good will of another body to publish my social media posts. If I'm ejected from the current server hosting Tidbits, switching to a new host will take only a small amount of time.

Information

This post is a page of the Tidbits website.

Tidbits home page

Subscribe to the web feed to receive notifications when new posts appear. Use a feed reader to subscribe to the web feed. The web feed is a text file containing code written in the Atom syndication format.

Tidbits web feed

Thunderbird can be used as a web feed reader.

How to subscribe to web feeds with Thunderbird

Elfeed is a web feed reader for Emacs. Elfeed is available on MELPA as the package elfeed. Elfeed can be configured with an Org Mode file using the elfeed-org extension.

License

Author: Flower Snark
Email: flowersnark@gmail.com

Made with GNU Emacs and Org Mode.

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