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Hi, i'm into programming, sexual transmutation and psychedelics!

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I know some basic Rust (currently at chapter 9) and a little bit of JavaScript.

I'm trying to work with headless CMSs and that requires some understanding on how APIs work..

Even tho I wouldn't want to stick with JS, I don't really want to dig into frameworks and dependency hells.

But I like the concept and I need to build a site that grabs some data from an external api, so a headless cms would be my choice to grab the data and structure them there in order to be rendered later in something like a static site generator (I'm quite good at Hugo). Or will learn some basic React and try to build a template on my own there...

I think essentially I would like to achieve something like this

Thank you for your answer!

Yes I've considered using Hugo data sources, but handling all events in one single data file is not really a good way to manage data because Hugo can't programmatically generate content pages from a single data file sadly.. Also again, even if I make a script able to do this, I don't think you can modify content when already created without handling single posts individually.

I could generate a "list of events" but not individual pages from it and not an RSS feed for posts which I would need for newsletters etc..

The thing with CSV is that I kinda lost track of where the actual updated data is, so I'm keeping that updated too, yeah I know I'm a mess.

All the stuff cited is needed for one single job essentially: contacts, newsletter, events.. Which is gathering self published and externally published events and sending them to a list of chosen emails + some integration with social medias.

I'm not a webdev and I thought I could solve this much more easily, but I think doing this correctly would involve using at least an headless CMS + something that is able to grab data from external APIs + some JS framework for building the frontend.

Or relying on a ready full CMS like Ghost or WordPress + theme and hosting on a VPS, which honestly is what I'm leaning towards..

I want to avoid JS if possible as I had terrible coding experiences with it, I know some Rust but webdev in rust is not really a good option from what I've learned.

What do you think?

I think I'm probably slowly transitioning to "the ghost" but more as a matter of digital minimalism than for privacy lmao

I think people should really read books like digital minimalism by cal Newport, stolen focus, surveillance capitalism, your brain on porn ecc to understand how social medias (but the internet in general) IS DESIGNED to be addictive, and what are the addictive traits.

Lemmy is definitely better but still holds some concepts from addictive social medias (not because of developers fault, I think they just tried mimicking popular socials, since these are born as "alternatives"). Infinite scrolling and upvotes are just two examples.

Some frontends do a great job leaving power to the user in that, like eternity, but I think a lot more consciousness should be raised on the topic and, at least in the open source / federated community there should be some guidelines on how to design social medias just as useful tools while minimizing distractions/useless/addictive parts.

It's great to be decentralized, it's great to avoid ads, profilation and targetization, but we can do better in designing really new and useful tools starting from certain principles.

No I actually prefer GNOME, but have to use KDE because I need specific features (kiosk mode), but yes I feel like Gnome is so much better integrated with its defaults apps!

When Linux phones?

(Actually usable ones)

Crypto - wall street on steroids Bitcoin - an actual alternative to the collapsing monetary economy

That doesn't take into account privacy coins like monero, which have different purposes, but most crypto is bullshit.

Glad to know xfce has a kiosk mode, I wonder if it's easier to set up than KDE or GNOME..

UFW definitely and maybe also selinux or apparmor to give internet access only to applications that need access!

I thought about Nix, it is indeed cool to declaratively install stuff and it would indeed be very helpful to set system settings all from one file so that you control everything there, but I don't think that's what I need, I think I'd need a more focused desktop environment maybe?

Kiosk environments could be a solution, because once the UI is limited, you can install software in any way you like and from any distro really, I think the focus is to keep it minimal under the hoods and very simple on the surface!

Probably an unpopular opinion but if you want absolute minimalism without ads use Violoncello text browser!

My god would love to see all events on pixelfeld instead of Instagram.....

Having a federated music platform would be great both for people and for artists!

How is the user experience compared to matrix? Is it easy to gateway towards matrix or other services? Can I easily join matrix or other communities servers?

I see a lot of people are now using matrix but not so many xmpp, but yeah it hoggs resources on my server too. Also I feel like it's still pretty buggy..

Yes, sorry, not a native English speaker

Didn't think about the 2 machines thing. But yeah it looks definitely easier than setting a transparent proxy.. But I guess all of this has to be on the same network, I cannot use an external server to which I connect to via wan because at that point the connections would be already need to be unproxied going out right?

But can't your setup be done on the same machine with a firewall?

Yes DNS and pihole were never thought as content filtering tools

I need to block IPs and unauthorized connections that are not http/https as well, I know about DNS filtering but it's not what I am trying to achieve.

Didn't know about CENO, it looks super cool! Might have to dig more into TOR as well

Maybe search engines idk, something like Yucy?