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About

This is my historical content archive, primarily of German Reddit comments.

My opinions are subject to change at all times, I probably think different by now.

I want to share thoughts and engage in meaningful debate, to learn and grow together.

Multiple reasons. First of all, I like to keep ownership of my content and to not rely on a third party for preservation and editing rights. Maybe even more importantly, I like to be personal in my responses but over time this accumulates and reveals too many private details. Thus, I have to carefully select and redact the content I wish to keep public. I understand that it sucks for people searching reddit, but I think my privacy and control are more important. This archive exists to preserve the content.

Why do you think your content deserves its own page?

I have been asked by a few dozen redditors for copies of my older comments again and again. Another big reason is when subreddits become larger, the same questions repeat more and more - often on a daily basis. Sometimes this can be a nice exercise to straighten and update one’s viewpoint with better responses, but it becomes tedious and repetitive. Maybe this archive can help to provide responses to these repeating questions.

I try to keep the site navigation and basic elements in English as common ground, allowing anyone to browse the pages. Individual posts will be in the language they have been originally posted in.

The page is based on Hugo as a static site generator, hosted on Cloudflare Pages, automatically updated from a private Github repository.

The content is formatted in Markdown posts which are chronologically sorted in the Posts section. I added headers to have a usable Table of Contents, especially for larger posts, and fixed a few typos or links. Other than that, the postings themselves are largely unedited. To reflect this, the “last edited” timestamp has not been updated.

All posts have tags associated with them for non-hierarchical categorisation. If the post came from reddit, the first tag should be the according subreddit.

All posts also have a main category. As there can only be one and I want to avoid keyword inflation, these are not always perfect and sometimes rather rough containers, largely correlated to the subreddit topics.

The posts forming series are a personal selection I deem most worthy and readable for certain topics that are of interest to me. The “opinion” series is a special case as it is not based on specific topics with measurable facts but more on thoughts and values that can be debatable from different viewpoints.

All posts include a self-hosted comment section based on remark42. Users can sign in using federation with their Google, Github, Facebook or Microsoft Accounts to post or upvote comments.

The Quintessence series is a placeholder for future, original content that has not been posted to reddit before. The idea is to write a set of well-researched summaries for certain recurring topics, for example on income taxation or FIRE in Germany, and to keep them updated.