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Re:Ask HN: Who is working on fully decentralized social networking? on Monday January 11, 2021 @10:55AM (#25730591)
I've heard of [friendica](https://friendi.ca/) as a decentralized facebook alternative. I assume you need friends who are actually using it, which is why I don't myself.
Re:Chrome 86 hides full URL in address bar on Friday October 09, 2020 @02:14PM (#24732734)
Apparently, it's just an experiment. https://blog.chromium.org/2020/08/helping-people-spot-spoofs...

I'm not a fan, though.

Re:Noteapps.info on Friday October 09, 2020 @02:04PM (#24732624)
you might want to add [obsidian](https://obsidian.md) to the options
Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to S3 Buckets? on Thursday June 11, 2020 @09:18PM (#23495000)
Is there a reason you don't want to use S3? It's hard to recommend a product without understanding your goals here.
Re:Ask HN: Is there a static site generator that supports [[wikilinks]]? on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @12:33PM (#23392919)
With Eleventy, you can specify a markdown parser which supports wikilinks. https://github.com/kwvanderlinde/markdown-it-wikilinks
Re:Ask HN: Simple CMS/site generator for my mom? on Monday June 01, 2020 @06:21PM (#23384698)
... Wordpress? If the goal is for a non-technical person to use it, I can't see any reason to complicate it.
Re:Ask HN: Where do you write? on Thursday April 30, 2020 @11:16AM (#23031747)
First I put it on my personal blog (11ty+netlify), so I own the rights. I wait at least a couple days before publishing or promoting elsewhere (medium, DEV, hackernoon)
Re:Ask HN: Where do you write? on Thursday April 30, 2020 @11:12AM (#23031684)
link?
Re:Ask HN: What physical books do you have? on Friday March 20, 2020 @02:09PM (#22639843)
More that thirty. I can never read online as well as I can with a paper book. Even just printing out a two-page article.