This from The Markup is not as interesting as some of the lines within, such as;
“anyone with intermediate technical skills (such as setting up servers or working with command line tools)”
… familiarity with command line tools constitute intermediate technical skills?
@JohnPhilpin Well I guess some familiarity with the command line can be intermediate (hell, back in the day you needed it to be a beginner). But setting up servers is definitely not intermediate by almost anyone’s standards.
I’ve just gone all-in on Micro.blog largely because I’m fed up with server wrangling, and I’m probably an expert by most people’s standards.
@JohnPhilpin Though having read a bit more, maybe setting up a Mastodon server is easy enough to be considered intermediate.
@devilgate yes I was thinking more about knowing command line tools than servers… recognize that it’s a spectrum … with goal posts that move … if you’ll pardon the mixed metaphor … also I don’t see The Markup as an overly technical organ … so I would expect their spectrum to lean more towards the ‘poets’ end of the spectrum … to borrow from Dave Winer.