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Looking up some stuff about Ghost's recent narrative concert film, Rite Here Rite Now, and it's so incredibly fucking wholesome seeing younger queers finding comfort in the very camp anti-Christian popular beat combo.
But I am also feeling old a.f. because no one is doing any fan analysis or headcanoning of the Wizard of Oz stuff through a Friends of Dorothy lens, as a complement to the narrative of false and hollow imperial power, and I'm now thinking that I'm maybe from the last generation that had that frame of reference. (Like, I'm not that old at 40-cough, but it was certainly part of the oral culture of queer history when I came of age, even though I didn't have much of a community.)
For anyone else who enjoys sundry Wizard of Oz theories, after adding some time codes, I'm also pretty sure that the soundtrack album doesn't map to any edit of the movie, but I'm still waiting for someone to actually do that, just to fulfil that old Dark Side of the Rainbow idea.
Glossary & Citations:
Friends of Dorothy
Old slang (pre-1970s) term for gay men in particular and queer people in general. The Wizard of Oz books and films are rich in queer symbolism and the term appeared in cant and code when being gay was still illegal and taboo. Oz references, particularly to the 1939 Judy Garland film, were at one point common tropes of LGBT+ culture.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friend_o…
The Dark Side of the Rainbow
The idea that you can use Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon as an alternative soundtrack to The Wizard of Oz. Not queer-coded.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark…
"In 2024, for the first time, it finally feels like we have a critical mass of people and platforms who are interested in rewilding the internet to bring back what we lost, and create something new. ... There's a palpable feeling that this just might be the year of the open web."
is this feeling... hope? activitypub.ghost.org/day-0/
#ActivityPub #Ghost #fediverse #OpenWeb
![At various points we revisited our old idea for networked publishing in Ghost and tested a few prototypes, but we were never sure how to make it scale; nor how many other platforms would ultimately adopt it. For all its promise, ActivityPub (like many open standards) seemed to generate products with user experiences that were often confusing and convoluted. But something else happened in the intervening period between 2016 and 2024: People became increasingly fed up with the behavior of centralized platforms, and increasingly hungry for alternatives. The motivation for exploring and understanding new technologies, rough edges included, meaningfully increased. In 2024, for the first time, it finally feels like we have a critical mass of people and platforms who are interested in rewilding the internet to bring back what we lost, and create something new. In the past week alone, we've had conversations with Mastodon, Flipboard, The Verge, Buttondown, WriteFreely, and several co-authors of the ActivityPub spec. There's a palpable feeling that this just might be the year of [begin strikethrough] the linux desktop [end strikethrough] the open web.](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/548185 "At various points we revisited our old idea for networked publishing in Ghost and tested a few prototypes, but we were never sure how to make it scale; nor how many other platforms would ultimately adopt it. For all its promise, ActivityPub (like many open standards) seemed to generate products with user experiences that were often confusing and convoluted. But something else happened in the intervening period between 2016 and 2024: People became increasingly fed up with the behavior of centralized platforms, and increasingly hungry for alternatives. The motivation for exploring and understanding new technologies, rough edges included, meaningfully increased. In 2024, for the first time, it finally feels like we have a critical mass of people and platforms who are interested in rewilding the internet to bring back what we lost, and create something new. In the past week alone, we've had conversations with Mastodon, Flipboard, The Verge, Buttondown, WriteFreely, and several co-authors of the ActivityPub spec. There's a palpable feeling that this just might be the year of [begin strikethrough] the linux desktop [end strikethrough] the open web.")
Building ActivityPub: Day 0
They say the best way to predict the future is to create it, so two weeks ago we shared our intention to connect Ghost with the ActivityPub Network to bring back the open web.Ghost (Building ActivityPub)
@molly0xfff's post on migrating from Substack by self hosting is a master piece in clear communication. This is how you cover a complex issue without glossing over details due to hindsight while also not making the topic sound more daunting. A great example of building stairs and elevators after you've climbed instead of pulling the ladder. Highly recommend reading even if you're not in the newsletter sending game.
citationneeded.news/substack-t…
#Substack #SelfHosting #NewsLetter #Ghost
Migrating from Substack to self-hosted Ghost: the details
I migrated Citation Needed from Substack to self-hosted Ghost. Here is exactly how I did that.Molly White (Citation Needed)