Emphasis on individual online space, so not a forum/federated platform, more like maybe a blog or portfolio or anything else more experimental. Suppose the full gamut of tech familiarity from unfamiliar to familiar.
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What advice and cautionary tales would you give on setting up one’s own individual online space with today’s tools?
If you allow comments at all, you are gonna get spam. That spam will range from “please buy good vitamins from my holy web site” to horribly illegal eye-destroying things.
LLMs are really good for filtering this. Their deeper understanding of languages and context allows them to detect things like misspellings or ads that can get around other filters.
I’d caution against this - my gut reaction is that they’d also block people who happen to speak somewhat “unnaturally”, like non-native speakers, neurodivergent folks and non-america/europeans.
Honestly, unless you expect to run at the scale of something like a big Mastodon server or get really popular, manually approving comments with a simple home-rolled capcha (that bots won’t recognise) should be enough.
The same rules as everywhere online:
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Nothing is anonymous and everything is permanent.
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Don’t post anything you wouldn’t want read aloud at a Supreme Court hearing or Sunday dinner with the family.
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You can save a lot of money with an open source CMS that has low hosting requirements.
Are low hosting requirements similar to low system specs, or…? Do you happen to have any preferences in mind?
Yeah it’s the same thing. If you need to connect to a database a lot that usually is more expensive, but static site generators are cheap to host.
