The second workshop in our Post-Publishing Digital Toolkit program took place on the 22nd of February, between 13:00-19:00 at offline, Lichtenrader Str. 49, 12049 Berlin.

We presented and discussed self-hosting methods for artists and others, as well as how to revive the usage of RSS feeds, and looked at some nice free and open-source software for digital publishing.

At the workshop, we shared our quest to break free from the ever-enshittifying products, services, and platforms run by the oligarchic big tech and move towards self-hosting our data, websites, and services at Well Gedacht Publishing.

• How to self-host a static website at home, using a cheap mini-PC, Raspberry Pi, or an old laptop? (2:30 hours)
• 30 minutes break
• Using RSS in 2025! Is RSS also a publishing tool? Advocating wider use of RSS and Atom feeds today as an alternative to oligarchic social media, Spotify, Youtube, etc. (or Big Social). We'll show how to use it daily, its obstacles, and how to overcome them. (40 minutes)
• Trying out Pandoc to generate websites from text files. We will convert files into one another, doc, epub, HTML, and markdown for instant, easy, and self-hosted digital publishing. (1:20 hour)
• Looking at alternative (to big tech) digital publishing platforms and tools for specific publishing needs (40 minutes)

Etherpad for the workshop

Archived websites made from rich text files during the workshop using Pandoc, briefly self-hosted on our workshop server:

• feel_better_survival_kit.selfhostingworkshop.work
• frodo.selfhostingworkshop.work
• n0ah.selfhostingworkshop.work
• nad.selfhostingworkshop.work
• pointod.selfhostingworkshop.work
• publishing.selfhostingworkshop.work
• quote.selfhostingworkshop.work
• test.selfhostingworkshop.work (our test website got hacked)
• yctct.selfhostingworkshop.work