I cannot reply to everyone, but genuinely thank you all so much for the help. I’ll be going with a simplistic zola setup suggested by one of the commentors. I barely expected a handful, let alone all these comments. It really means a lot, especially to a noob who felt like this was a really dumb question.

Thank you for the advice. Honestly, I’m a young 20 something that just wants to output creative stuff for people to read and enjoy. None of this really popped in my head, so thanks.

I still want to host my own site for it though, but I will consider the self publishing angle as well. Thanks for the advice.

He shouldn’t have to, the point is read before commenting about a clickbait headline. If he has to spell it out that only furthers his point.

I found it preferable when I started exclusively using the keyboard and keybinds. Tho I ended up using a TWM so I’m definitely not the target audience lol.

Huh? But I use Libretube everyday.

I can acknowledge all that and still say fuck discord. I never mentioned herding everyone over, I just explained why I think it’s a parasite and why I have a strong disliking towards it.

Idk about them, but it’s a centralized, locked-down service that absorbs and holds information and data hostage like tomorrow.

As someone who’s trying to completely avoid Discord, it’s quite frustrating how many communities and projects will put important information in their Discords, and nowhere else. You have to have an account to see it, and it also isn’t searchable in a search engine. It is actually quite terrible for pretty much everyone.

Element/Matrix lets you peek into public chats and servers/spaces without an account, so it can definitely be done. They won’t do it though, because they gotta make you feel dat FOMO lol.

Dang, this looks pretty awesome. Too bad it would probably suck for manga.

Thanks, but I decided to go for a 1 liter PC with a 9th gen i7 instead. I can’t believe this post is 4 months old lol.

As an American who has to hear about shootings pretty consistently, I’d like to say the fear can be pretty justified. I don’t really know what it’s like to live in a world without guns and their presence, so it’s hard to imagine life without the necessity of them to protect yourself. It’s just one of those things that’s hard to understand unless you’ve lived in it I guess.

Honestly all I want is a Steam Deck Mini. Fuck bigger and more powerful, I want a small indie/AA game machine that’s easier to carry around and use as a handheld outside of the house. The Steam Deck has been primarily a bed machine for me.

Awesome! Now I go back to waiting for the 24TB Ironwolf drives to drop.

Yeah, this and Koreader are the ones I was referring to. Sorry for not listing anything.

Kobo devices are the way to go. Easy sideloading, multiple FOSS operating system alternatives, and generally they’ve got some nice n’ cheap options.

AntennaPod and Podverse are both really good.

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I saw discussions of other clients implementing it, and given the FOSS nature of Matrix it should be no issue. From my observations, it seems the issue is more related to manpower. Most clients simply do not have the same resources as Element, and lack a lot of features. My favorite client (Cinny) doesn’t even have the calling features already implemented in nearly every other client, for example. Quite often they’re decently behind. It’s typically a matter of picking what features you want, while sacrificing those that you don’t care as much for.

I think it’s a matter of when, and how long you’re willing to wait for the others to catch up. I can’t imagine it will be the easiest thing to implement, especially since they’ll have to modify the UI to fit their designs as well.

Whoa, that’s sexy. What dashboard is that?

That’s actually really good! I like that one a lot more.

Awesome! Just to explain a bit, Matrix is a FOSS and decentralized chat protocol that’s more feature rich than XMPP, but also younger and less mature. It’s more popular than XMPP at the moment, and has a lot of nice and modern clients to pick from. I hope it can serve your team well if you guys decide to pick it up.