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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
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    "url": "https://corteximplant.com/@ninceur/114032878150162421",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Eternally debating how to organize what / where I blog has me posting far less than I should. Partly as an excuse to try out polls a question: when reading blogs which do you prefer in terms of topics?</p><p>For context I used to write a <strong>lot</strong> about fitness and health when I had a business in that space and was doing the whole ~<del>marketing</del>~ thing, and I still want to write some in that vein. </p><p>But now what I've published, and even more so the many unfinished drafts of pieces, are all over the place topics wise, with web dev, philosophy, cybersecurity, and others included in the mix. I'm debating whether to consolidate to one site or keep the topics more to one theme with multiple sites.</p><p><a href=\"https://corteximplant.com/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://corteximplant.com/tags/blogging\">#<span>blogging</span></a></p><p>One blog to rule them all and on the web publish them<br />I only read blogs that stay focused on a specific niche or theme<br />Other (a middle way between #1 and #2 )</p>",
        "text": "Eternally debating how to organize what / where I blog has me posting far less than I should. Partly as an excuse to try out polls a question: when reading blogs which do you prefer in terms of topics?\n\nFor context I used to write a lot about fitness and health when I had a business in that space and was doing the whole ~marketing~ thing, and I still want to write some in that vein. \n\nBut now what I've published, and even more so the many unfinished drafts of pieces, are all over the place topics wise, with web dev, philosophy, cybersecurity, and others included in the mix. I'm debating whether to consolidate to one site or keep the topics more to one theme with multiple sites.\n\n#indieweb #blogging\n\nOne blog to rule them all and on the web publish them\nI only read blogs that stay focused on a specific niche or theme\nOther (a middle way between #1 and #2 )"
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    "published": "2025-02-19T22:20:33+00:00",
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    "type": "entry",
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    "url": "https://dmv.community/@jcrabapple/114032659211378760",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Hi! If you are one of the folks interested in those <a href=\"https://dmv.community/tags/BlogQuestionsChallenge\">#<span>BlogQuestionsChallenge</span></a> things that people around the <a href=\"https://dmv.community/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> are doing, I made a bot that picks a random topic from a given list and posts 3 questions about those topics that you can answer on your blog!</p><p>Right now it will post every other Friday at 12pm EST.</p><p>Credit to <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://shellsharks.social/@shellsharks\">@<span>shellsharks</span></a></span> for the idea! </p><p><a href=\"https://beep.town/@blog_challenge/114032585553571824\"><span>https://</span><span>beep.town/@blog_challenge/1140</span><span>32585553571824</span></a></p>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://shellsharks.social/@shellsharks\"></a>",
        "text": "Hi! If you are one of the folks interested in those #BlogQuestionsChallenge things that people around the #indieweb are doing, I made a bot that picks a random topic from a given list and posts 3 questions about those topics that you can answer on your blog!\n\nRight now it will post every other Friday at 12pm EST.\n\nCredit to @shellsharks for the idea! \n\nhttps://beep.town/@blog_challenge/114032585553571824"
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    "published": "2025-02-19T21:24:53+00:00",
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        "name": "#indieweb",
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        "photo": null
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    "url": "https://marc.hannebrook.info/blog/2025/02/19/1577/",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><strong>Ich bin heute auf diesen tollen Artikel von Carsten gesto\u2026</strong></p><p>Ich bin heute auf <a href=\"https://carsten-nichte.de/docs/fediverse-und-indieweb/\">diesen tollen Artikel</a> von Carsten gesto\u00dfen. Dort beschreibt er sehr ausf\u00fchrlich die Unterschiede des Fediverse und des IndieWeb und wie man beide Konzepte kombinieren kann.</p>",
        "text": "Ich bin heute auf diesen tollen Artikel von Carsten gesto\u2026\n\nIch bin heute auf diesen tollen Artikel von Carsten gesto\u00dfen. Dort beschreibt er sehr ausf\u00fchrlich die Unterschiede des Fediverse und des IndieWeb und wie man beide Konzepte kombinieren kann."
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    "published": "2025-02-19T18:43:49+00:00",
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
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    "url": "https://dmv.community/@jcrabapple/114032015821098520",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Sleep Token Are Teasing Fans With A New Cryptic Website</p><p><a href=\"https://blog.shrediverse.net/posts/sleep-token-are-teasing-fans-with-a-new-cryptic-website\"><span>https://</span><span>blog.shrediverse.net/posts/sle</span><span>ep-token-are-teasing-fans-with-a-new-cryptic-website</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://dmv.community/tags/music\">#<span>music</span></a> <a href=\"https://dmv.community/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://dmv.community/tags/smallweb\">#<span>smallweb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Sleep Token Are Teasing Fans With A New Cryptic Website\n\nhttps://blog.shrediverse.net/posts/sleep-token-are-teasing-fans-with-a-new-cryptic-website\n\n#music #indieweb #smallweb"
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    "published": "2025-02-19T18:41:15+00:00",
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Jennifer Harrison geneticjen.micro.blog

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        "name": "Jennifer Harrison",
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    "url": "https://GeneticJen.micro.blog/2025/02/19/my-friends-scattered-im-setting.html",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>My friends scattered. I\u2019m setting up a POSSE approach to posting. Publish (on your own site) Once, Syndicate Elsewhere. I\u2019m writing this on my page and cross-posting elsewhere. IndieWeb has best practices for providing links and references back to the original content but I\u2019m still figuring that out</p>",
        "text": "My friends scattered. I\u2019m setting up a POSSE approach to posting. Publish (on your own site) Once, Syndicate Elsewhere. I\u2019m writing this on my page and cross-posting elsewhere. IndieWeb has best practices for providing links and references back to the original content but I\u2019m still figuring that out"
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    "published": "2025-02-19T10:27:39+00:00",
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Jeremy Keith adactio.com

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        "text": "Reflections on 25 years of Interconnected (Interconnected)\n\n\n\nAh, this is wonderful! Matt takes us on the quarter-decade journey of his brilliant blog (which chimes a lot with my own experience\u2014my journal turns 25 next year)\u2026\n\n\n  Slowly, slowly, the web was taken over by platforms. Your feeling of success is based on your platform\u2019s algorithm, which may not have your interests at heart. Feeding your words to a platform is a vote for its values, whether you like it or not. And they roach-motel you by owning your audience, making you feel that it\u2019s a good trade because you get \u201cdiscovery.\u201d (Though I know that chasing popularity is a fool\u2019s dream.)\n  \n  Writing a blog on your own site is a way to escape all of that. Plus your words build up over time. That\u2019s unique. Nobody else values your words like you do.\n  \n  Blogs are a backwater (the web itself is a backwater) but keeping one is a statement of how being online can work. Blogging as a kind of Amish performance of a better life.",
        "html": "<h3>\n<a class=\"p-name u-bookmark-of\" href=\"https://interconnected.org/home/2025/02/19/reflections\">\nReflections on 25 years of Interconnected (Interconnected)\n</a>\n</h3>\n\n<p>Ah, this is wonderful! Matt takes us on the quarter-decade journey of his brilliant blog (which chimes a lot with my own experience\u2014my journal turns 25 next year)\u2026</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n  <p>Slowly, slowly, the web was taken over by platforms. Your feeling of success is based on your platform\u2019s algorithm, which may not have your interests at heart. Feeding your words to a platform is a vote for its values, whether you like it or not. And they roach-motel you by owning your audience, making you feel that it\u2019s a good trade because you get \u201cdiscovery.\u201d (Though I know that chasing popularity is a fool\u2019s dream.)</p>\n  \n  <p>Writing a blog on your own site is a way to escape all of that. Plus your words build up over time. That\u2019s unique. Nobody else values your words like you do.</p>\n  \n  <p>Blogs are a backwater (the web itself is a backwater) but keeping one is a statement of how being online can work. Blogging as a kind of Amish performance of a better life.</p>\n</blockquote>"
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    "url": "https://shellsharks.social/@shellsharks/114031614057050564",
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        "html": "<p>Is there a <a href=\"https://shellsharks.social/tags/blogging\">#<span>blogging</span></a> challenge / <a href=\"https://shellsharks.social/tags/writing\">#<span>writing</span></a> prompt bot / feed / account out there on Fedi somewhere? The entire <a href=\"https://shellsharks.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> community could respond to the challenges and it could be fun. The couple of viral blogging challenges that have gone around lately have been fun.</p>",
        "text": "Is there a #blogging challenge / #writing prompt bot / feed / account out there on Fedi somewhere? The entire #indieweb community could respond to the challenges and it could be fun. The couple of viral blogging challenges that have gone around lately have been fun."
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    "published": "2025-02-19T16:59:05+00:00",
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Ben Werdmuller werd.io/profile/benwerd

Reflections on 25 years of Interconnected

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        "text": "[Matt Webb]\n\nI love this:\n\"Slowly, slowly, the web was taken over by platforms. Your feeling of success is based on your platform\u2019s algorithm, which may not have your interests at heart. Feeding your words to a platform is a vote for its values, whether you like it or not. And they roach-motel you by owning your audience, making you feel that it\u2019s a good trade because you get \u201cdiscovery.\u201d (Though I know that chasing popularity is a fool\u2019s dream.)\nWriting a blog on your own site is a way to escape all of that. Plus your words build up over time. That\u2019s unique. Nobody else values your words like you do.\"\nFun fact: I started my first startup, the open source social networking platform Elgg, after my university employer told me, verbatim, \"Blogging is for teenage girls crying in their bedrooms.\" I've been pro-blogging both long before and long after it was cool.\n\nSo sure, blogging might never be mainstream. But it can also be leading edge: a way to demonstrate what ownership can look like. A place to own your words by every definition of the word \"own\".\n\nEveryone should have a blog. Everyone should write on their own terms. I want to read everyone's reflections; understand their worldviews from their perspectives, from a space that is truly theirs.\n\nAs Matt says:\n\"I evangelise blogging because it has been good to me.\n[...] You should start a blog. Why? Because, well, haven\u2019t I just been saying?\"\nThere's no better time to start than now.\n#Indieweb\n            [Link]",
        "html": "<p>[<a href=\"https://interconnected.org/home/2025/02/19/reflections\">Matt Webb</a>]</p><p>I love this:</p><blockquote>\n<p>\"Slowly, slowly, the web was taken over by platforms. Your feeling of success is based on your platform\u2019s algorithm, which may not have your interests at heart. Feeding your words to a platform is a vote for its values, whether you like it or not. And they roach-motel you by owning your audience, making you feel that it\u2019s a good trade because you get \u201cdiscovery.\u201d (Though I know that chasing popularity is a fool\u2019s dream.)</p>\n<p>Writing a blog on your own site is a way to escape all of that. Plus your words build up over time. That\u2019s unique. Nobody else values your words like you do.\"</p>\n</blockquote><p>Fun fact: I started my first startup, the open source social networking platform Elgg, after my university employer told me, verbatim, \"Blogging is for teenage girls crying in their bedrooms.\" I've been pro-blogging both long before and long after it was cool.</p><p>So sure, blogging might never be mainstream. But it can also be leading edge: a way to demonstrate what ownership can look like. A place to own your words by every definition of the word \"own\".</p><p>Everyone should have a blog. Everyone should write on their own terms. I want to read everyone's reflections; understand their worldviews from their perspectives, from a space that is truly theirs.</p><p>As Matt says:</p><blockquote>\n<p>\"I evangelise blogging because it has been good to me.</p>\n<p>[...] You should start a blog. Why? Because, well, haven\u2019t I just been saying?\"</p>\n</blockquote><p>There's no better time to start <a href=\"https://getblogging.org\">than now</a>.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://werd.io/tag/Indieweb\" class=\"p-category\">#Indieweb</a></p>\n            <p>[<a href=\"https://interconnected.org/home/2025/02/19/reflections\">Link</a>]</p>"
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    "url": "https://social.lol/@vae/114031034075810801",
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        "html": "<p>hey folks! </p><p>how do you get over the initial awkwardness of trying to find a voice again to blog when it\u2019s been so long? </p><p>i\u2019m back up and running with <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://fosstodon.org/@eleventy\">@<span>eleventy</span></a></span> and struggling to find my way after months, it feels like i\u2019m starting over, almost. </p><p><a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/blogging\">#<span>blogging</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/learning\">#<span>learning</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/11ty\">#<span>11ty</span></a></p>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://fosstodon.org/@eleventy\"></a>",
        "text": "hey folks! \n\nhow do you get over the initial awkwardness of trying to find a voice again to blog when it\u2019s been so long? \n\ni\u2019m back up and running with @eleventy and struggling to find my way after months, it feels like i\u2019m starting over, almost. \n\n#indieweb #blogging #learning #11ty"
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    "published": "2025-02-19T14:31:35+00:00",
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    "url": "https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:77tdak46psveqneyegsdyc7l/post/3lijxrwskhz2a",
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        "html": "<p>\"Writing a blog on your own site is a way to escape [the platforms]. Plus your words build up over time. That\u2019s unique. Nobody else values your words like you do.\" Matt Webb on 25 years of blogging: <a href=\"https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Indieweb\">#Indieweb</a><br /><br /><a href=\"https://interconnected.org/home/2025/02/19/reflections\">Reflections on 25 years of Int...</a></p>",
        "text": "\"Writing a blog on your own site is a way to escape [the platforms]. Plus your words build up over time. That\u2019s unique. Nobody else values your words like you do.\" Matt Webb on 25 years of blogging: #Indieweb\n\nReflections on 25 years of Int..."
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        "html": "<p>\"Writing a blog on your own site is a way to escape [the platforms]. Plus your words build up over time. That\u2019s unique. Nobody else values your words like you do.\" Matt Webb on 25 years of blogging: <a href=\"https://werd.social/tags/Indieweb\">#<span>Indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://werd.io/2025/reflections-on-25-years-of-interconnected\"><span>https://</span><span>werd.io/2025/reflections-on-25</span><span>-years-of-interconnected</span></a></p>",
        "text": "\"Writing a blog on your own site is a way to escape [the platforms]. Plus your words build up over time. That\u2019s unique. Nobody else values your words like you do.\" Matt Webb on 25 years of blogging: #Indieweb https://werd.io/2025/reflections-on-25-years-of-interconnected"
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        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mastodon.social/@balint/114030180573067895",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>The bar is in the frickin basement at this point, but browsing random personal websites I cannot believe how refreshing it is to NOT have to do all of these after waiting half a minute for the website to load:</p><p>1. Dismiss cookie notice<br />2. Dismiss automatic Google login prompt<br />3. Dismiss newsletter sign up prompt<br />4. Dismiss auto playing video</p><p>Instead, pages load *instantly* or in seconds, and I get to:<br />1. Read the thing I requested</p><p>Thank you for maintaining personal sites \u2764\ufe0f<br /><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/SmallWeb\">#<span>SmallWeb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "The bar is in the frickin basement at this point, but browsing random personal websites I cannot believe how refreshing it is to NOT have to do all of these after waiting half a minute for the website to load:\n\n1. Dismiss cookie notice\n2. Dismiss automatic Google login prompt\n3. Dismiss newsletter sign up prompt\n4. Dismiss auto playing video\n\nInstead, pages load *instantly* or in seconds, and I get to:\n1. Read the thing I requested\n\nThank you for maintaining personal sites \u2764\ufe0f\n#IndieWeb #SmallWeb"
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    "published": "2025-02-19T10:54:32+00:00",
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    "url": "https://xoxo.zone/@artlung/114029272156433220",
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        "html": "<p>One of the <a href=\"https://xoxo.zone/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> events that happens monthly is movie watches. Folks watch <a href=\"https://xoxo.zone/tags/movies\">#<span>movies</span></a> then write about them on their sites. This month? Watch *any* (or multiple?) version of Romeo &amp; Juliet. There are several! This ought to be a fun one. Hosted by <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://mastodon.social/@marksuth\">@<span>marksuth</span></a></span> <a href=\"https://marksuth.dev/posts/2025/02/indieweb-movie-club-feb-2025-romeo-juliet\"><span>https://</span><span>marksuth.dev/posts/2025/02/ind</span><span>ieweb-movie-club-feb-2025-romeo-juliet</span></a></p>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://mastodon.social/@marksuth\"></a>",
        "text": "One of the #IndieWeb events that happens monthly is movie watches. Folks watch #movies then write about them on their sites. This month? Watch *any* (or multiple?) version of Romeo & Juliet. There are several! This ought to be a fun one. Hosted by @marksuth https://marksuth.dev/posts/2025/02/indieweb-movie-club-feb-2025-romeo-juliet"
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    "url": "https://indieweb.social/@countablenewt/114028264658980011",
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        "html": "<p>Working on a redesign of my personal landing page<br /><a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/BuildInPublic\">#<span>BuildInPublic</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/WebDevelopment\">#<span>WebDevelopment</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/Design\">#<span>Design</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/Figma\">#<span>Figma</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Working on a redesign of my personal landing page\n#BuildInPublic #IndieWeb #WebDevelopment #Design #Figma"
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    "url": "https://alis.me/x/half-step-back/",
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        "html": "<p>A guide to <a class=\"u-in-reply-to\" href=\"https://unplatform.fromthesuperhighway.com/\">leaving social media</a>.</p><p>As with all of these things, there\u2019s a cohort of people for whom modern social media (\u201cWeb 2.0\u201d) <em>is</em> what they want out of the internet. For whatever reason, these people are no more likely to pull up sticks and join the indieweb now than they were to roll a blog or run a personal collective back in the early 2000s (or a newsgroup or BBS before that). They\u2019re also the people most likely to get annoyed by any attempt to get them to do so. This class of people also includes most anyone with an Extremely Online career \u2014 influencers, journalists, \u201ccreators\u201d and so on \u2014 which I think is why fedi and the indieweb tend to get such a beating in \u201cmainstream\u201d outlets (with \u201cmainstream\u201d being defined here in the modern sense of \u201canyone with, or trying to create, a monetisable broadcast channel\u201d).</p><p>So. This is not for them. Is <em>is</em> for anyone, however, who enjoys Doing Things Online as a hobby, not a career (potential or actual). For anyone who wants the small scale, the friction, the jank, the weirdness. Who wants to sit in front of text editors and command lines. Wants to do things the old way, the slow way. Wants to wrangle and learn technologies and protocols and processes older than they are, older than their <em>parents</em> are, maybe.</p><p>These people have always existed, will always exist; the punks and the weirdos and the outsiders. The internet used to be theirs near entire, and while that hasn\u2019t been true for a lifetime now, there\u2019s still plenty of us around, lurking in our neon-dark and pastel-bright corners. And still plenty of space for anyone new who wants to join in.</p><p><a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://alis.me/-/culture/\">#culture</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://alis.me/-/fediverse/\">#fediverse</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://alis.me/-/indieweb/\">#indieweb</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://alis.me/-/social-media/\">#socialMedia</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://alis.me/-/tech/\">#tech</a></p>",
        "text": "A guide to leaving social media.\n\nAs with all of these things, there\u2019s a cohort of people for whom modern social media (\u201cWeb 2.0\u201d) is what they want out of the internet. For whatever reason, these people are no more likely to pull up sticks and join the indieweb now than they were to roll a blog or run a personal collective back in the early 2000s (or a newsgroup or BBS before that). They\u2019re also the people most likely to get annoyed by any attempt to get them to do so. This class of people also includes most anyone with an Extremely Online career \u2014 influencers, journalists, \u201ccreators\u201d and so on \u2014 which I think is why fedi and the indieweb tend to get such a beating in \u201cmainstream\u201d outlets (with \u201cmainstream\u201d being defined here in the modern sense of \u201canyone with, or trying to create, a monetisable broadcast channel\u201d).\n\nSo. This is not for them. Is is for anyone, however, who enjoys Doing Things Online as a hobby, not a career (potential or actual). For anyone who wants the small scale, the friction, the jank, the weirdness. Who wants to sit in front of text editors and command lines. Wants to do things the old way, the slow way. Wants to wrangle and learn technologies and protocols and processes older than they are, older than their parents are, maybe.\n\nThese people have always existed, will always exist; the punks and the weirdos and the outsiders. The internet used to be theirs near entire, and while that hasn\u2019t been true for a lifetime now, there\u2019s still plenty of us around, lurking in our neon-dark and pastel-bright corners. And still plenty of space for anyone new who wants to join in.\n\n#culture #fediverse #indieweb #socialMedia #tech"
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    "published": "2025-02-18T23:26:13+00:00",
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Manton Reece www.manton.org

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        "html": "<p>Today we updated another part of Micro.blog to support blog post summaries. When automatically cross-posting to Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, and LinkedIn, the summary will now be included for long-form posts with a title. It will look something like this after being copied to the other platform:</p>\n<pre><code>Your title here: &lt;link to blog post&gt;\n\nThe summary of the post here.\n</code></pre><p>For example, here\u2019s this very post on Bluesky:</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/10/2025/bluesky-with-summary.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of post with summary on Bluesky.\" style=\"max-width:600px;margin-top:15px;\" /><p>You can write these summaries yourself or have AI generate them for you from the text on the new post or draft editing screens. They are also included in your published JSON Feed. And for external feeds using JSON Feed, Micro.blog will also look for the summary and use it in the timeline and cross-posting.</p>\n<p>I\u2019ve also added support in the APIs \u2014 Micropub as <code>summary</code> and XML-RPC as <code>mt_excerpt</code> \u2014 so that third-party apps can get and set summaries. This is being tested now for an upcoming MarsEdit release.</p>",
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    "published": "2025-02-18T15:07:42-06:00",
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        "html": "<p>Wanting to make a quick and dirty site to introduce ourselves to our new neighbors. Anyone have any recommendations for easy to use (ideally no sign up) ways to integrate some sort of guestbook/bulletin board so someone could say hi? Obviously I'll include a contact form/our socials but it would be cool to just let people say hello right on the site </p><p><a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/webdev\">#<span>webdev</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/comments\">#<span>comments</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/bulletin\">#<span>bulletin</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/guestbook\">#<span>guestbook</span></a></p>",
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        "html": "<p>As a rail against what \u201csearch\u201d is becoming, I long more and more for the old ways of the web.</p><p>I want to have web rings again.</p><p>Does anyone know if there are any active webring services around? Searching of course displays me everything except what I want, with the exception of \u201chistory of webrings\u201d.</p><p><a href=\"https://aus.social/tags/webring\">#<span>webring</span></a> <a href=\"https://aus.social/tags/internetv1\">#<span>internetv1</span></a> <a href=\"https://aus.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "As a rail against what \u201csearch\u201d is becoming, I long more and more for the old ways of the web.\n\nI want to have web rings again.\n\nDoes anyone know if there are any active webring services around? Searching of course displays me everything except what I want, with the exception of \u201chistory of webrings\u201d.\n\n#webring #internetv1 #indieweb"
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    "published": "2025-02-18T20:26:55+00:00",
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    "url": "https://mastodon.social/@balint/114026564117711335",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>I set up a short domain for my new personal site!</p><p>\u2728 <a href=\"https://bm.gy\"><span>https://</span><span>bm.gy</span><span></span></a> \ud83e\udd0f\ud83c\udffb\u2728</p><p>I was quickly able to integrate it with my static site generator as well. My articles will automatically get permashortlinks! It's just outputting a super basic .htaccess file with redirects, but that'll suit me just fine :) </p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/SmallWeb\">#<span>SmallWeb</span></a></p>",
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    "published": "2025-02-18T19:34:49+00:00",
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        "html": "<p>Possibly the Easiest Blog Flow You Could Ever Have</p><p>Ever wanted to blog, but thought, \"I don't want build a website or be a web master. I just want to write.\" Well, good news. With Asciidoctor and Surge. You can worry less about the \"technical stuff\" and focus on publishing your writing.</p><p><a href=\"https://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/2025/02/19/possibly-the-easiest-blog-flow-you-could-ever-have/\"><span>https://</span><span>readbeanicecream.surge.sh/2025</span><span>/02/19/possibly-the-easiest-blog-flow-you-could-ever-have/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/technology\">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/tech\">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/opensource\">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/blogging\">#<span>blogging</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/smallweb\">#<span>smallweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/asciidoctor\">#<span>asciidoctor</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/surge\">#<span>surge</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/news\">#<span>news</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/blogs\">#<span>blogs</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/socialmedia\">#<span>socialmedia</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/rss\">#<span>rss</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/rssfeeds\">#<span>rssfeeds</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Possibly the Easiest Blog Flow You Could Ever Have\n\nEver wanted to blog, but thought, \"I don't want build a website or be a web master. I just want to write.\" Well, good news. With Asciidoctor and Surge. You can worry less about the \"technical stuff\" and focus on publishing your writing.\n\nhttps://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/2025/02/19/possibly-the-easiest-blog-flow-you-could-ever-have/\n\n#technology #tech #opensource #blog #blogging #indieweb #smallweb #asciidoctor #surge #news #blogs #socialmedia #rss #rssfeeds"
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