Has anyone done anything interesting aside from cloud provider deployments with the #OIDC support in #GitLab and #GitHub? Thinking I may use it as a means to automatically publish notes to my site via #Micropub when publishing a new version of a library
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"text": "Over the last decade or two tech has become dominated by the startup: a small, new business that rapidly reinvents itself in an iterative process. Once upon a time, the aim of that process was - or at least, seemed like it was - to be as useful as possible to a well-defined target group of users. These days it feels like the aim is mostly to gain as high a valuation as possible by moving from venture capital funding round to funding round, eventually making bank through an exit event.That startupification has had an interesting effect on tech communities. I\u2019m from the utopian era of the web, when we all thought we could build something to connect that world, and by doing so that we would make it more peaceful. These days, it seems like people are mostly in it to make millions of dollars - which feels like an emptier, less exciting goal, to say the least. The possibilities for social change used to seem endless; now the conversation is mostly about funding rounds or financial yield. In itself, it\u2019s boring, but it also changes who is attracted to the space: we\u2019ve gone from a loose group of weird social idealists to being overwhelmed by a bolus of the most boring possible people. The tech workforce is becoming Wall Street in hoodies, far more concerned with the performance of their RSUs than the impact they\u2019re having in the world.Of course, there are still idealists: people who believe in making the world more equal and democratic, and that technology has a part to play in making it happen. The indieweb movement remains one great example of this; there are also plenty of people working on tech for good, or mission-driven endeavors where the social impact comes first. Even in companies that are a part of this financialization of tech, there are people doing great work on inclusivity, unionization, and advocacy for social responsibility. Nonetheless, at this point, these groups are in the minority.I find that personally demotivating - it\u2019s not why I got into the space, or why I\u2019m excited about it - but it\u2019s also kind of counterproductive. If you\u2019re laser focused on helping a defined group of people, you\u2019re more likely to build a valuable company, because you\u2019re literally generating value. Conversely, if you\u2019re focused on making money as a goal rather than a means to an end, you\u2019re more likely to make shallower decisions that undermine your value. Being focused on helping your user means you\u2019re aligned with them; being primarily focused on your financial goals means you\u2019re primarily aligned with yourself. To put it another way, if the aim is to raise a round or make a bunch of money personally, you\u2019re more likely to make decisions that screw your users and undermine that goal to begin with. It\u2019s also just a selfish, stupid way to look at the world.Remember this Apple campaign?Here\u2019s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes\u2026 the ones who see things differently \u2014 they\u2019re not fond of rules\u2026 You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can\u2019t do is ignore them because they change things\u2026 they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.It doesn\u2019t say here\u2019s to the stockbrokers, is all I\u2019m saying. Tech could use a little more crazy, a little more outside thinking, a little more equity-mindedness, and a little less greed. That\u2019s how the world gets changed: by focusing on people, not on dollar bills.",
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🎂 Happy birthday Bridgy! Congrats Ryan (@schnarfed), contributors, users!
10 years of bridging #indieweb & #socialmedia. #POSSE posts, #backfeed responses. #Federate systems, like the web was invented to.
Stats & charts & more: https://snarfed.org/2022-01-08_happy-10th-birthday-bridgy
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From Patrick Tanguay:
A list of small micro-publishers — most of them run by one person — putting out great content through their websites, newsletters, and podcasts.
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I enjoy the IndieWeb pop-ups that have become popular in pandemic times. Easier to commit to a couple hours on Zoom than a full weekend. This month there’s Analog Meets Online and in February there’s Personal Libraries.
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If I post notes to my site instead of Twitter, who will see them?
It’s not either or, it’s yes and.
Post to your Own Site, and Syndicate Elsewhere (to Twitter etc.) https://indieweb.org/POSSE
POSSE directly or use a service like https://brid.gy
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Frank, did you ever track the bug down that was causing this issue? I've tried that same article with a few different Micropub clients and I'm not seeing any issues with respect to Post Kinds finding and displaying the correct/expected data. In fact, the Atlantic actually shows quite a bit more data than most sites do.
Perhaps it's your shortcut not actually sending a URL for it to parse? I've also seen issues when trying to post content that contains special characters or emojis which WordPress tends to choke on and not understand. When a post has an emoji in the title or the body somewhere, it creates the post, but doesn't save any of the data in Post Kinds' context-related fields.
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I, for one, welcome all the independents speaking truth to power, criticizing organizations when they do or encourage harmful actions, especially in a systemic or global scope.
Even better when folks post said critiques to their personal sites. #indieweb
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A blog is just a journal: a web log of what you’re thinking and doing. You can keep a log about anything you like; it doesn’t have to be professional or money-making. In fact, in my opinion, the best blogs are personal. There’s no such thing as writing too much: your voice is important, your perspective is different, and you should put it out there.
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Posting notes on your site is the “Hello World” of the independent web.
If you speak to the ideals of the #openWeb #decentralizedWeb #distributedWeb #federatedWeb #indieWeb or even #smallWeb, walk your talk: post your notes somewhere you control. Whether static HTML, server-generated from storage, or a service supporting your domain, choose a method that works sustainably for you, and stick to it.
Questions about options and when or why to choose one or another?
Ask: https://chat.indieweb.org/
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"text": "Posting notes on your site is the \u201cHello World\u201d of the independent web.\n\nIf you speak to the ideals of the #openWeb #decentralizedWeb #distributedWeb #federatedWeb #indieWeb or even #smallWeb, walk your talk: post your notes somewhere you control. Whether static HTML, server-generated from storage, or a service supporting your domain, choose a method that works sustainably for you, and stick to it.\n\nQuestions about options and when or why to choose one or another?\n\nAsk: https://chat.indieweb.org/",
"html": "Posting notes on your site is the \u201cHello World\u201d of the independent web.<br /><br />If you speak to the ideals of the #<span class=\"p-category\">openWeb</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">decentralizedWeb</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">distributedWeb</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">federatedWeb</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">indieWeb</span> or even #<span class=\"p-category\">smallWeb</span>, walk your talk: post your notes somewhere you control. Whether static HTML, server-generated from storage, or a service supporting your domain, choose a method that works sustainably for you, and stick to it.<br /><br />Questions about options and when or why to choose one or another?<br /><br />Ask: <a href=\"https://chat.indieweb.org/\">https://chat.indieweb.org/</a>"
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Happy 2022 friends!
12 years ago I began posting notes on my site before Twitter: https://tantek.com/2010/001/t1/declaring-independence-building-it
Have a site? Own your notes in 2022.
Be the #P2P #decentralization you want to see, instead of tweeting to the wind.
Questions? Ask #indieweb community:
https://chat.indieweb.org/
2 years ago: https://tantek.com/2020/001/t1/10-years-notes-my-site
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"text": "I posted to adactio.com 968 times in 2021. sparkline\n\nThat\u2019s considerably less than 2020 or 2019. Not sure why.\n\nMarch was the busiest month with 118 posts. sparkline\n\nI published:\n\n\n4 articles, \n\n99 blog posts, sparkline\n\n397 links, sparkline and \n\n468 notes. sparkline\nThose notes include 170 photos sparkline and 162 replies. sparkline\n\nElsewhere in 2021 I published two seasons of the Clearleft podcast (12 episodes), and I wrote the 15 modules that comprise a course on responsive design on web.dev.\n\nMost of my speaking engagements in 2021 were online though I did manage a little bit of travel in between COVID waves.\n\nMy travel map for the year includes one transatlantic trip: Christmas in Arizona, where I\u2019m writing this end-of-year wrap-up before getting back on a plane to England tomorrow, Omicron willing.",
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"url": "https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/newsblur-could-send-to-micropub",
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"text": "Still pursuing the idea of sharing from NewsBlur to other places, especially Known and Micro.blog, I went digging around in the code. All of the options are in a section of NewsBlur-master/media/js/newsblur/reader/reader.js starting at line 2560.",
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"html": "<p>It was way back <a href=\"https://www.manton.org/2017/11/24/blog-archive-format.html\">around IndieWebCamp Austin 2017</a> that I proposed a new archive format for blogs. These .bar files are essentially ZIP files that contain HTML with Microformats, JSON Feed with original Markdown or HTML, and uploaded photos. The nice thing about this format is that you can unzip them and preview your entire site in any web browser, and it contains all the related photos and other files.</p>\n\n<p>I\u2019ve been working on improving support for Blog Archive in Micro.blog. Version 2.3 of <a href=\"https://help.micro.blog/t/micro-blog-for-mac/45\">the Mac app</a> can now import .bar files with a nice preview window and progress. It can import into Micro.blog or external Micropub and WordPress blogs.</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://www.manton.org/uploads/2021/31ccfbdba4.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"570\" alt=\"Screenshot of .bar window\" /></p>\n\n<p>When the Mac app uploads photos for your blog from the archive, it rewrites <code>img</code> tags in your HTML to use the new URLs, so it\u2019s a good way to migrate a blog with no or minimal cleanup needed afterwards.</p>\n\n<p>Tools that want to process these files can choose between parsing the Microformats or JSON Feed version of the blog. IndieWeb-friendly tools may find it easier to work with Microformats, and new apps can use any JSON parser.</p>\n\n<p>When generating a .bar file, I recommend having plain HTML in index.html with common Microformats like <code>h-feed</code>, <code>h-entry</code>, <code>u-url</code>, <code>dt-published</code>, and <code>e-content</code>. In the JSON Feed, you can use <code>content_text</code> for the source Markdown or HTML if you have it, and then HTML in <code>content_html</code>. Micro.blog will prefer <code>content_text</code> if it\u2019s there.</p>\n\n<p>For an example to test with, check out this file: <a href=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/micro.blog/examples/example.bar\">example.bar</a>. This contains a few posts and screenshots from our <a href=\"https://epilogue.micro.blog/\">Epilogue blog</a>.</p>\n\n<p>I really hope this format catches on. The files can be big, but they give you a single file that you can backup anywhere.</p>",
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There will be a IndieWeb pop-up session in February about personal libraries: using alternatives to Goodreads, tracking books on your own site, and common formats we can use.
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"html": "<p>If you have to decide on the order of creative freedom vs data ownership, what order do you choose?\n\n</p><p>When you set your mind to search for something explicit, the internet becomes an incredible place: from the tiny, \"recommended for you\" world of algorithms claiming to know you better, than yourself, you're suddenly in uncharted territories of thoughts of others.</p>\n<p>There were times, long ago, when this was normal. For example, there were specific websites built only to contain links to other sites - 'portals' - or communities that connected sites to the eachother - webrings -, so it was easy to suddenly drop of your known internet.</p>\n<p>This is much harder today, particularly because some of those recommendation engines (think of youtube, netflix, and so on - even ebay (!!!) recently) are not bad at all. There's only one, tiny issue: they tend to limit whatever they recommend more and more, only showing you a glimpse of what is available on their service, let alone on the internet.</p>\n<p>Usually this phenomenon is called a \"recommendation bubble\", and to get out of it, one needs to deliberately seek beyond it. This isn't trivial though: there are known unknowns (when there's a question on an exam you know you should have learnt, but you didn't) and unknown unknowns (things you'd never before heard of). If we don't know what to look for, which is the vast majority of the internet itself for anyone, the search engines become useless. That is why links to other sites were and are so utterly important: to be able to explore. <em>There is the \"I'm Feeling Lucky\" button on Google, which once took a friend of mine to a Flash version of the 'Tunak Tunak' song when he searched for \"Cthulhu\" eons ago, so using that button can sometimes be fun, I'll give Google that.</em></p>\n<p>In the past weeks I've found myself staring at websites designed in early 90s Geocities style, particularly at web manifestos: why their site exists, and why it was better in the good ol' days, and how can it be similar today<a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fn1\">1</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fn2\">2</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fn3\">3</a>. Surprisingly enough, there were similar manifestos from before the web2.0 craze of the early 2000s<a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fn4\">4</a>, but most of them now seems to be lost to decay<a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fn5\">5</a>.</p>\n<p>Most of these manifestos are new, written in the 2020s by people who had experienced the 90s web. They all have some overlapping thoughts, such as: the web should stay weird, whacky, whimsical, <em>(why do all these words start with a w?)</em>, personal websites are important, the creative freedom one's own site gives is wonderful, and that social media is becoming monotonous and lifeless.</p>\n<p>There are also a lot of people longing for something they believe is lost:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I miss the useless web. I miss your grandpa\u2019s blog. I miss weird web art projects that trolled me. I miss fan pages for things like hippos. I wish I didn\u2019t feel like the web was collapsing into just a few sites plus a thousand resumes. <a href=\"https://twitter.com/sarah_edo\">Sarah Drasner</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/sarah_edo/status/1013427276350873600\">Jul 1, 2018</a></p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>They are only partially correct. Much of the old content is still there, but because they are not HTTPS, or haven't been updated in years, decades sometimes, Google de-prioritizes, or even purges them from the search options. Google, sadly, has no obligations to remembering<a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fn6\">6</a>.</p>\n<p><strong>These days there are wonderously easy to use tools to make websites - although some of them are better<a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fn7\">7</a>, than others - so why isn't everyone making their own page?</strong></p>\n<p>Some early social networks, such as MySpace, allowed profile customization at a very deep level, which is actually enough for many people to make a small self-representation on the net. I was recently pointed at modern, but similar examples<a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fn8\">8</a>, showing how many are happy with simply a profile they can completely design. They are not after a whole website, they are after a way to be creative.</p>\n<p>In 2019, Flash was killed off, and Vice published an article: \"Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era\"<a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fn9\">9</a>. There is no overstatement in that title; the Flash era was absolutely incredible. It didn't just give us geniously designed websites (I vividly remember the site of Cuv\u00e9e des Trolls, a beer, with a built in minigame), meme citadels<a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fn10\">10</a>, unforgettable minigames, no; it also gave us things like Happy Tree Friends<a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fn11\">11</a>. Flash had it's problems (many of them to be honest), but it indeed gave an unprecedented flexibility to be original</p>\n<ul><li>and many used it to expand the possibilites of the web, to go beyond text and websites.</li>\n</ul><p>Coming to this realisation I got into some <del>arguments</del> discussions on the IndieWeb chats<a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fn12\">12</a> about ordering the IndieWeb principles<a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fn13\">13</a>. There are multiple elements on the list of IndieWeb priorities, but no matter how many times I read it, the one I believe to be the most important - \"have fun\" - is down at the bottom, like a bit of an afterthought.</p>\n<p>The IndieWeb wiki<a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fn14\">14</a> is a disturbingly messy, but staggeringly deep site, with a crazy amount of collected reference, knowledge, and tooling around the IndieWeb Movement. It is important to realise that the IndieWeb - as in indieweb.org - is not the same as that manifesto from 1997<a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fn15\">15</a> called \"the indie web\". The former is a community, a movement, made up of people believing and following those principles, whereas the latter is the old Internet, The World Wide Web: a haphazardly entangled mess of individual websites.</p>\n<p>As time passes, not truly owning a digital creative work, including a website, can quickly become a problem. There are many documented cases where usernames, handles, subdomains were taken over by the host<a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fn16\">16</a>, and even more cases of hosting providers, silos, etc going under<a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fn17\">17</a>. One must have the option to move and save their content to avoid losing it, hence the need for your own domain name, which can be repointed to another place, if needed.</p>\n<p>The rest of the IndieWeb ideas, in my opinion, are completely optional. For example, marking up HTML with microformats<a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fn18\">18</a> is only useful if someone wants their content machine-parseable for other IndieWeb sites (or search engines that still respect microformats v1). <em>This is the reason why there aren't clear guides: this is not a step-by-step thing. The owner of a website needs to decide what functionality they want to participate in, and for those functionalities, the guides are much clearer.</em></p>\n<p>However... many people leaving social media might want to leave it and it's features - likes, comments, etc - for good, and are looking for their own place, their own home on the internet. In many cases this is a creative, visual call. There is no need to first register a domain name to start filling this desire: jump on a place like Neocities<a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fn19\">19</a> and start creating - and <strong>I firmly believe this is the most important step: the will, and action, to create</strong>.</p>\n<p><strong>It might be time for IndieWeb to rethink principles and priorities</strong>. The current list might appeal to developers, or people deeply emerged in utilizing social media silos, looking to ease their workflow, or their fears of losing their content, but it doesn't necessarily talk to the ones looking to satisfy the call of creativity, or those disillusioned of social media itself.</p>\n<p><em>PS: I asked my wife, Nora, to proof-read this entry. At the beginning, her immediate answer to the question in the summary was: \"of course data ownership has priority!\". After reading it through I I asked her to revisit the question, and she told me that if she sells a painting - she has been practising Chinese brush painting for many years now<a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fn20\">20</a> -, she loses that painting, yet that loss will make her happy, and so maybe, the possibility of creativity is indeed higher on the list of priorities.</em></p>\n\n\n<ol><li><p><a href=\"https://flamedfury.com/manifesto/\">https://flamedfury.com/manifesto/</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fnref1\">\u21a9\ufe0e</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://sadgrl.online/newoldweb/manifesto_full.html\">https://sadgrl.online/newoldweb/manifesto_full.html</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fnref2\">\u21a9\ufe0e</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://neustadt.fr/essays/the-small-web/\">https://neustadt.fr/essays/the-small-web/</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fnref3\">\u21a9\ufe0e</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20010805195949/http://www.uzine.net/article63.html\">https://web.archive.org/web/20010805195949/http://www.uzine.net/article63.html</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fnref4\">\u21a9\ufe0e</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/06/the-internet-is-a-collective-hallucination/619320/\">https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/06/the-internet-is-a-collective-hallucination/619320/</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fnref5\">\u21a9\ufe0e</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://medium.com/message/never-trust-a-corporation-to-do-a-librarys-job-f58db4673351\">https://medium.com/message/never-trust-a-corporation-to-do-a-librarys-job-f58db4673351</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fnref6\">\u21a9\ufe0e</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://pinegrow.com/\">https://pinegrow.com/</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fnref7\">\u21a9\ufe0e</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=carrd.co\">https://twitter.com/search?q=carrd.co</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fnref8\">\u21a9\ufe0e</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://www.vice.com/en/article/d3awk7/flash-is-responsible-for-the-internets-most-creative-era\">https://www.vice.com/en/article/d3awk7/flash-is-responsible-for-the-internets-most-creative-era</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fnref9\">\u21a9\ufe0e</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://z0r.de/\">https://z0r.de/</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fnref10\">\u21a9\ufe0e</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://mondomedia.com/channel/HappyTreeFriends\">https://mondomedia.com/channel/HappyTreeFriends</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fnref11\">\u21a9\ufe0e</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://indieweb.org/discuss\">https://indieweb.org/discuss</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fnref12\">\u21a9\ufe0e</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://indieweb.org/principles\">https://indieweb.org/principles</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fnref13\">\u21a9\ufe0e</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://indieweb.org/\">https://indieweb.org</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fnref14\">\u21a9\ufe0e</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20010805195949/http://www.uzine.net/article63.html\">https://web.archive.org/web/20010805195949/http://www.uzine.net/article63.html</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fnref15\">\u21a9\ufe0e</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://indieweb.org/why#Avoiding_problems\">https://indieweb.org/why#Avoiding_problems</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fnref16\">\u21a9\ufe0e</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"http://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Deathwatch\">http://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Deathwatch</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fnref17\">\u21a9\ufe0e</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"http://microformats.org/wiki/Main_Page\">http://microformats.org/wiki/Main_Page</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fnref18\">\u21a9\ufe0e</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://neocities.org/\">https://neocities.org/</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fnref19\">\u21a9\ufe0e</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://instagram.com/liulangmao_art/\">https://instagram.com/liulangmao_art/</a><a href=\"https://petermolnar.net/#fnref20\">\u21a9\ufe0e</a></p></li>\n</ol>",
"text": "If you have to decide on the order of creative freedom vs data ownership, what order do you choose?\n\nWhen you set your mind to search for something explicit, the internet becomes an incredible place: from the tiny, \"recommended for you\" world of algorithms claiming to know you better, than yourself, you're suddenly in uncharted territories of thoughts of others.\nThere were times, long ago, when this was normal. For example, there were specific websites built only to contain links to other sites - 'portals' - or communities that connected sites to the eachother - webrings -, so it was easy to suddenly drop of your known internet.\nThis is much harder today, particularly because some of those recommendation engines (think of youtube, netflix, and so on - even ebay (!!!) recently) are not bad at all. There's only one, tiny issue: they tend to limit whatever they recommend more and more, only showing you a glimpse of what is available on their service, let alone on the internet.\nUsually this phenomenon is called a \"recommendation bubble\", and to get out of it, one needs to deliberately seek beyond it. This isn't trivial though: there are known unknowns (when there's a question on an exam you know you should have learnt, but you didn't) and unknown unknowns (things you'd never before heard of). If we don't know what to look for, which is the vast majority of the internet itself for anyone, the search engines become useless. That is why links to other sites were and are so utterly important: to be able to explore. There is the \"I'm Feeling Lucky\" button on Google, which once took a friend of mine to a Flash version of the 'Tunak Tunak' song when he searched for \"Cthulhu\" eons ago, so using that button can sometimes be fun, I'll give Google that.\nIn the past weeks I've found myself staring at websites designed in early 90s Geocities style, particularly at web manifestos: why their site exists, and why it was better in the good ol' days, and how can it be similar today123. Surprisingly enough, there were similar manifestos from before the web2.0 craze of the early 2000s4, but most of them now seems to be lost to decay5.\nMost of these manifestos are new, written in the 2020s by people who had experienced the 90s web. They all have some overlapping thoughts, such as: the web should stay weird, whacky, whimsical, (why do all these words start with a w?), personal websites are important, the creative freedom one's own site gives is wonderful, and that social media is becoming monotonous and lifeless.\nThere are also a lot of people longing for something they believe is lost:\n\nI miss the useless web. I miss your grandpa\u2019s blog. I miss weird web art projects that trolled me. I miss fan pages for things like hippos. I wish I didn\u2019t feel like the web was collapsing into just a few sites plus a thousand resumes. Sarah Drasner Jul 1, 2018\n\nThey are only partially correct. Much of the old content is still there, but because they are not HTTPS, or haven't been updated in years, decades sometimes, Google de-prioritizes, or even purges them from the search options. Google, sadly, has no obligations to remembering6.\nThese days there are wonderously easy to use tools to make websites - although some of them are better7, than others - so why isn't everyone making their own page?\nSome early social networks, such as MySpace, allowed profile customization at a very deep level, which is actually enough for many people to make a small self-representation on the net. I was recently pointed at modern, but similar examples8, showing how many are happy with simply a profile they can completely design. They are not after a whole website, they are after a way to be creative.\nIn 2019, Flash was killed off, and Vice published an article: \"Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era\"9. There is no overstatement in that title; the Flash era was absolutely incredible. It didn't just give us geniously designed websites (I vividly remember the site of Cuv\u00e9e des Trolls, a beer, with a built in minigame), meme citadels10, unforgettable minigames, no; it also gave us things like Happy Tree Friends11. Flash had it's problems (many of them to be honest), but it indeed gave an unprecedented flexibility to be original\nand many used it to expand the possibilites of the web, to go beyond text and websites.\nComing to this realisation I got into some arguments discussions on the IndieWeb chats12 about ordering the IndieWeb principles13. There are multiple elements on the list of IndieWeb priorities, but no matter how many times I read it, the one I believe to be the most important - \"have fun\" - is down at the bottom, like a bit of an afterthought.\nThe IndieWeb wiki14 is a disturbingly messy, but staggeringly deep site, with a crazy amount of collected reference, knowledge, and tooling around the IndieWeb Movement. It is important to realise that the IndieWeb - as in indieweb.org - is not the same as that manifesto from 199715 called \"the indie web\". The former is a community, a movement, made up of people believing and following those principles, whereas the latter is the old Internet, The World Wide Web: a haphazardly entangled mess of individual websites.\nAs time passes, not truly owning a digital creative work, including a website, can quickly become a problem. There are many documented cases where usernames, handles, subdomains were taken over by the host16, and even more cases of hosting providers, silos, etc going under17. One must have the option to move and save their content to avoid losing it, hence the need for your own domain name, which can be repointed to another place, if needed.\nThe rest of the IndieWeb ideas, in my opinion, are completely optional. For example, marking up HTML with microformats18 is only useful if someone wants their content machine-parseable for other IndieWeb sites (or search engines that still respect microformats v1). This is the reason why there aren't clear guides: this is not a step-by-step thing. The owner of a website needs to decide what functionality they want to participate in, and for those functionalities, the guides are much clearer.\nHowever... many people leaving social media might want to leave it and it's features - likes, comments, etc - for good, and are looking for their own place, their own home on the internet. In many cases this is a creative, visual call. There is no need to first register a domain name to start filling this desire: jump on a place like Neocities19 and start creating - and I firmly believe this is the most important step: the will, and action, to create.\nIt might be time for IndieWeb to rethink principles and priorities. The current list might appeal to developers, or people deeply emerged in utilizing social media silos, looking to ease their workflow, or their fears of losing their content, but it doesn't necessarily talk to the ones looking to satisfy the call of creativity, or those disillusioned of social media itself.\nPS: I asked my wife, Nora, to proof-read this entry. At the beginning, her immediate answer to the question in the summary was: \"of course data ownership has priority!\". After reading it through I I asked her to revisit the question, and she told me that if she sells a painting - she has been practising Chinese brush painting for many years now20 -, she loses that painting, yet that loss will make her happy, and so maybe, the possibility of creativity is indeed higher on the list of priorities.\n\n\nhttps://flamedfury.com/manifesto/\u21a9\ufe0e\nhttps://sadgrl.online/newoldweb/manifesto_full.html\u21a9\ufe0e\nhttps://neustadt.fr/essays/the-small-web/\u21a9\ufe0e\nhttps://web.archive.org/web/20010805195949/http://www.uzine.net/article63.html\u21a9\ufe0e\nhttps://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/06/the-internet-is-a-collective-hallucination/619320/\u21a9\ufe0e\nhttps://medium.com/message/never-trust-a-corporation-to-do-a-librarys-job-f58db4673351\u21a9\ufe0e\nhttps://pinegrow.com/\u21a9\ufe0e\nhttps://twitter.com/search?q=carrd.co\u21a9\ufe0e\nhttps://www.vice.com/en/article/d3awk7/flash-is-responsible-for-the-internets-most-creative-era\u21a9\ufe0e\nhttps://z0r.de/\u21a9\ufe0e\nhttps://mondomedia.com/channel/HappyTreeFriends\u21a9\ufe0e\nhttps://indieweb.org/discuss\u21a9\ufe0e\nhttps://indieweb.org/principles\u21a9\ufe0e\nhttps://indieweb.org\u21a9\ufe0e\nhttps://web.archive.org/web/20010805195949/http://www.uzine.net/article63.html\u21a9\ufe0e\nhttps://indieweb.org/why#Avoiding_problems\u21a9\ufe0e\nhttp://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Deathwatch\u21a9\ufe0e\nhttp://microformats.org/wiki/Main_Page\u21a9\ufe0e\nhttps://neocities.org/\u21a9\ufe0e\nhttps://instagram.com/liulangmao_art/\u21a9\ufe0e"
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The .new domains are pretty cool, and I am tempted to look at something like indieauth.new or oauth.new, especially to hook it into tokens-pls
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