David's article really resonated with me because I've been thinking for a long while now to create a newsletter (or three) to surface barely heard voices.

On Substack, for example, the voices I hear are overwhelmingly from the United States, and it is incredibly hard to find voices from Asia and South-East Asia. It's a source of huge frustration for me because the most common narratives about my part of the world is from the United States, and a lot of times these narratives are distorted, skewed to American values and is not what is really happening in my region. Yet, when I try to speak up on Substack, I never get seen as the algorithm is prioritising US voices and Substacks. Worse, they are also boosting only popular ones, which means the most popular narrative is the loudest.

I have occasionally shared links to South-East Asian Substacks and blogs, and each time I do, I get messages of gratitude. However, I still wondered if my tiny act of rebellion would do anything to move the needle in terms of being heard in an English-speaking Internet overwhelmed by Western voices and narratives.

David's post reminded me that yes, I should put in some effort to help surface more unknown corners of the Internet. Maybe we won't get rid of the algorithmic complacency sweeping society now, but at least we'll do some tiny thing to help create a messy but human algorithm instead.

https://www.raptitude.com/2025/06/how-to-surf-the-web-in-2025-and-why-you-should/

#Internet #SocialMedia #Algorithms #IndieWeb #Tech #Blogging #blogs

Hahah I realise that's my pic in that graphic! First, thank you @hyde for reaching out to me, and putting up with my forgetfulness. In this post I talk about #digitalgardens and #socialmedia and tea!

But I want to say that I really love his initiative. I read a post today about how urgent it is for human beings to stop relying on algorithms for content recommendations, and that we should go back to human curators, and @hyde is doing this. It's really time consuming, by the way, so I really applaud all the work he's putting in.

https://lazybea.rs/ovr-029/

#Tech #Indieweb

Who do I know going to #HOPE in NYC next month? I'm afraid I won't make it this time, but as a now-annual event I really want to try and make it to the next one.

There are themed villages akin to the European events I've been to in the past and there's a fediverse village at HOPE this year -- plus @evan -- will be speaking

I hope to see lots of great photos. Please tag me in any you take so I don't miss them :)

#2600 #indieweb

Haven't seen a good project on a .net domain name for a while.

.net domain name owners, please show me your indieweb projects.

(Nothing to do with Microsoft's .NET, but if you're hosting something you made with .NET on a .net domain name, you'll get 5 bonus internet points*)

* Current exchange rate is 78 internet points = 1 clout

#indieweb #dns

Collecting some open tabs from one of thirteen firefox windows I've got going.

Featuring: Luxury diving destinations, the best playlists on the web, occult indieweb resources, horror zines, audio tools for the dark arts, astounding en plein air paintings.

https://zeigert.com/posts/2025-07-21-open-tabs-july-2025/

#links #diving #indieweb #musicproduction #gothic #horrorbooks #zines #painting

The next #FrontEnd Study Hall will be July 31, 2025. 10am Pacific. We will attempt to answer evergreen questions like who, what, when, where, and why" about #HTML and #CSS & #WWW. You've got a web browser in your bindle--make a web page https://events.indieweb.org/2025/07/front-end-study-hall-033-nWnOns8NiwiM (an #IndieWeb Zoom)

If, like me, you've ever been annoyed at people just saying to grep the output of ifconfig for inet, and the likes, to get the assigned IP address of a network interface.

I got annoyed one time too many.

Have a *proper* solution.

May or may not also work on for example the *BSDs, but should definitely work on any modern typical-userland Linux.

https://michael.kjorling.se/blog/2025/ip-address-of-network-interface-linux/

#Linux #BlogPost #blog #PersonalWebSite #indieweb #networking #IPv4 #IPv6

I'm trying something scary.

I've been stuck in my #writing (again).

I've been stuck in my #art (again).

I've been creatively backed up (again).

I've gotten too deep into my head (again and always and forever, amen).

So I'm trying something: I'm releasing this weird #creative experiment into the world. To challenge myself. To (hopefully? maybe?) help others get "unstuck."

I'd love if anyone out there gave it a look. And I’d be utterly thrilled if you told me about it.

https://fromemily.com/creative-ex-lax-experiment/

@actuallyautistic

#ActuallyAutistic #ActuallyADHD #blogging #WritingCommunity #WritersOfMastodon #IndieWeb #MentalHealth #Artist #SmallWeb #FromEmily

Am 5. August ist es Zeit für ein sommerliches Treffen, des KrautPress Website Club. 🍹

Wir treffen uns wie immer um 17:30 Uhr auf Zoom und sprechen über unsere persönlichen Websites, das #indieweb und den ganzen Rest.

https://events.krautpress.de/veranstaltung/7-krautpress-website-club/

Reminder that I write about a lot of stuff, blindness, life stuff, my author news. I never stick to 1 topic so if you wanna follow, my RSS feed is https://robertkingett.com/feed/ #RSS #Blog #IndieWeb

Cool Tools Around the Indie Web

Lately, I have stumbled across some pretty cool tools focused on the indie web. So, I thought I would try out a few.

https://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/2025/07/20/cool-tools-around-the-indie-web/

#technology #tech #blogging #blogs #writing #indieweb #smallweb #personalsites #verbamea #pagecord #bearblog

I've spent the evening implementing the sharing and button upgrades from @mauricerenck IndieConnector 2.10.0 for KirbyCMS. It tidied up my panel view, with most blueprints fitting on a page.

Example code snippet on my site >

#IndieWeb #KirbyCMS
https://lee-perry.co.uk/microfeed/2025-07-20-micro

re: what does the indie web need right now? | ava's blog https://blog.avas.space/reply-indieweb-needs/ #IndieWeb #Blog #Bogging

Ava blogs about what the IndieWeb might need right now, including some thoughts on social media and Mastodon:

…I personally don’t consider Mastodon instances to be included in the Indieweb; adjacent, for sure, as you have more control over your data in a way and escape big socials and can POSSE. But in the end, it will always remain a Twitter clone that still embodies the worst of social media and is not a personal website.

There are a lot of good thoughts in this post. And some overlap with the goals of Micro.blog too.

Ho provato a riscrivere la pagina /about del mio blog ipotizzando di chattare con un utente immaginario del sito. Come vi sembra? 😜

https://prealpinux.com/about/

#IndieWeb #Fediverso

Kagi's algorithms prioritize organic, non-commercial sources over ad-heavy or tracker-riddled sites. This really helps to surface unique, human-generated content from smaller blogs, authentic sites and forums.

#Kagi #Search #NoAds #SmallWeb #IndieWeb

@jcrabapple Email to post is an interesting concept. I have browsed a few pages and I am digging it. I'll probably stick with my old static site (even though this looks way easier), but I love the idea of simple alternatives; especially, alternatives built on familiar tech. I mean, we all have email. I may give it a spin for funsies.

#indieweb #smallweb #personalweb #simpleweb