Lady, EVOLVED 
#SnowflakeChallenge update: Snowflake Challenge 2024№2 – “Set yourself some goals for the coming year.”
My goals for 2024 are split between the creative and the curatorial.
On the curatorial side, I want to build a better online home for my fannish presence—including a place (or two) to host my fanworks, but also including homes for other activities like webshrines, meta, ⁊·c. I’ve been steadily trying to build the technological infrastructure for this, with the most recent attempt being <https://git.ladys.computer/Shushe>="⛩️📰 书社".
It’s very easy to get bogged down with technological aspirations (federated tagging, update tracking, linked data), but there is also low‐hanging fruit, and I have been pretty good about making slow, steady progress in this area. It is difficult going alone! I wish I knew more technically‐minded fans with similar inclinations, but in fact it feels like most of both the tech world and the fannish world are trying to solve very different problems from me right now.
On the creative side, I really would like to write more. I hardly wrote at all in the past year, partially because I moved across the country to live with my girlfriend and partially because I spent so much time on the above technical work. I have so many wips that I haven’t been able to devote the time to finish and I feel like my writing craft has somewhat fallen by the wayside of late.
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re: #SnowflakeChallenge update: Snowflake Challenge 2024№2 – “Set yourself some goals for the coming year.”
@Rozzychan i am a programmer!
there's an easy and hard answer to “federated fanworks” as a concept; the hard task (building an activitypub service like mastodon) is definitely a bigger task than any one person could ever take on…
… but i think there are simpler technologies like RSS which fandom could be leveraging more. there are old standards like Open Archives Initiative’s ResourceSync which maybe merit another look. there are also ways of doing things with activitystreams but not full activitypub, like the Notify project being developed by the Confederation of Open Access Repositories, which fandom could maybe leverage.
i think it's a real problem that fandom talks about archives and curation and preservation but doesn't use or contribute to any of the technologies used professionally in libraries or archives or digital preservation. why not? we're all trying to solve a lot of the same fundamental problems here
#SnowflakeChallenge update: Snowflake Challenge 2024№2 – “Set yourself some goals for the coming year.”
@Lady
Thanks for posting in the Snowflake Challenge.
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#SnowflakeChallenge update: Snowflake Challenge 2024№2 – “Set yourself some goals for the coming year.”
@Lady
Are you a programmer?
I just started posting to the #fandomFedi tag trying to find ways to make the fediverse a good home for fandom, and it seems you are already out there doing the good work.
Hosting and curating fanworks seems like something the fediverse should be able to do, but I have such difficulty figuring out how.
Nice to meet you.