{"id":10,"date":"2024-11-29T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.23\/?p=5"},"modified":"2025-11-14T02:28:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T13:28:22","slug":"setup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petesi.me\/index.php\/2024\/11\/29\/setup\/","title":{"rendered":"Setup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After a couple of days of learning-by-doing and troubleshooting I have finally got WordPress up and running, self-hosted on a Raspberry Pi. I\u2019ve had this domain for a while and I reasoned it would be a good idea to use it. So I\u2019m ready to cast my thoughts to the world.

I do have social media, and I\u2019m relying on that as the avenue of discoverability for this blog \u2013 Google\u2019s not too flash at that sort of thing now. And the concept of POSSE<\/a> (Publish on Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere) appeals to me. I\u2019m able to post a link to my blog entries on social media. With regular backups in place, I am unlikely to lose content to the enshittification <\/a>or collapse of social media networks.

That said, there\u2019s something retro or maybe even quaint about doing this. Blogs are so web 1.0. And while independent written content is still available through sources like Medium, the fact people pay for it \u2013 directly through subscriptions or indirectly through advertising – places the onus on the author to produce constant content at a consistent level of quality. I don\u2019t desire that kind of pressure.

Another thing is that when I was considering this blog and was looking for how-tos, almost all of them were focusing on search-engine optimisation and specialisation to find an audience. But there\u2019s one thing I want to be clear about:

My hobbies are not side-hustles.<\/strong><\/mark>

In part this is me making a stand against how uniform the internet has become. I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve noticed this too: a typical recreational browsing session might be dominated by Reddit with a bit of YouTube thrown in for good measure. Or it could be staring at Instagram or TikTok for much longer than you planned. In reaction to that, I\u2019ve started discovering the Indieweb <\/a>\u2013 made by enthusiasts who are being the change they want to see. Bringing back diversity to the online experience, rejecting the algorithms designed to keep you engaged and browsing long enough to sell something.

I only hope I have something interesting to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a couple of days of learning-by-doing and troubleshooting I have finally got WordPress up and running, self-hosted on a Raspberry Pi. I\u2019ve had this domain for a while and I reasoned it would be a good idea to use it. So I\u2019m ready to cast my thoughts to the world. I do have social … Continue reading “Setup”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/petesi.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/petesi.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/petesi.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petesi.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petesi.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/petesi.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"https:\/\/petesi.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/petesi.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petesi.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petesi.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}