i've decided that if i want to reboot my project for developing an anarchist media collective at giggleplex.red (giggleplex.red is down, don't bother looking for it), which i definitely want, i'll need to do 2 things.
give up on remote hosting and try to establish local hosting. it's not worth paying for remote hosting for the scant disk space it offers, i should also remember the proper channels for updating the packages on the server so it doesn't explode again.
give up on blogging platforms, even those such as mastodon. it is painfully clear to me now that blogspaces are antithetical to the objective of collaboration.
so, i'm gonna try to use my mac mini to host a collaborative forum via phpBB. it can host compressed file archives anyway, whereas blogspaces literally refuse to allow creators to post files of whatever format they choose.
for a bulletin board, it's not about the bloggers, it's about the topics, or the fandoms, or in this case, the projects. i think i might actually be planning to do it right this time.
maybe if it can get donations and i can appoint a treasurer for real, the collective could also have a mutual aid fund for the artists and volunteers. wouldn't that be nice?
but the thing is, there are roadblocks that i'm dealing with right now, for instance setting up a permanent residence in the midst of my family's wannabe redneck vanities. and i need to find a job.
so yea, i have a lot on my plate right now.
sorry