How to sell the fediverse and decentralization to the masses:

“Imagine doing all the stuff you do today on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter…but doing it without battling some random corporate algorithm, minus all the advertising and tracking, and knowing you aren’t making a billionaire billionairier.”

#fediverse #indieweb

Nerd friends of Lincoln, a friend and I are going to host a mini Homebrew Website Club next week, dm me for details if you'd like to join and we know each other IRL. (Hosting at my home for this one, sorry strangers)

As a celebration of the indie web, we'll all work on our personal sites (code? No-code? Blog?) and do a lil show & tell.
#IndieWeb

Watching #MozFest session Dialogues & Debates: Making the Fediverse¹ and panelist @stevetex@mozilla.social (@stevetex) just announced that we (#Mozilla) are standing up a #Mastodon instance², starting with limited sign-ups.

I’m excited that Mozilla is experimenting with #socialWeb alternatives to centralized #socialMedia silos.

There are many #Mozillians with #fediverse addresses you can follow:
* https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mastodon

Several of these folks also have their own #IndieWeb sites.

It’s interesting seeing how people are individually choosing to use a fediverse address on someone else’s server, vs their own server like with a subdomain, vs just using their existing site.

One trend I have seen is people using someone else’s Mastodon server as a stepping stone, a learning experience, before migrating to either self-hosting Mastodon (or an easier to run alternative like microblog.pub³, not to be confused with micro.blog⁴), or ideally directly using their own site, blog etc. to connect to the fediverse⁵.

Do you have an @-@ address and want to use your own site instead?

If you’re a #webdev, you can totally do this by connecting your existing personal site with https://fed.brid.gy/ and own your presence on the web, social web, fediverse all at one place.

Got questions? Drop by the IndieWeb chat! https://chat.indieweb.org/dev


This is day 35 of #100DaysOfIndieWeb #100Days

← Day 34: https://tantek.com/2023/072/t1/blog-as-if-ai-trained-posts
→ 🔮


¹ https://schedule.mozillafestival.org/session/UEEGYL-1
² https://mozilla.social/
³ https://indieweb.org/microblog.pub
https://indieweb.org/micro.blog
https://tantek.com/2022/301/t1/twittermigration-bridgyfed-mastodon-indieweb
Watching #MozFest session Dialogues & Debates: Making the Fediverse¹ and panelist @stevetex@mozilla.social (@stevetex) just announced that we (#Mozilla) are standing up a #Mastodon instance², starting with limited sign-ups.

I’m excited that Mozilla is experimenting with #socialWeb alternatives to centralized #socialMedia silos.

There are many #Mozillians with #fediverse addresses you can follow:
* https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mastodon

Several of these folks also have their own #IndieWeb sites.

It’s interesting seeing how people are individually choosing to use a fediverse address on someone else’s server, vs their own server like with a subdomain, vs just using their existing site.

One trend I have seen is people using someone else’s Mastodon server as a stepping stone, a learning experience, before migrating to either self-hosting Mastodon (or an easier to run alternative like microblog.pub³, not to be confused with micro.blog), or ideally directly using their own site, blog etc. to connect to the fediverse.

Do you have an @-@ address and want to use your own site instead?

If you’re a #webdev, you can totally do this by connecting your existing personal site with https://fed.brid.gy/ and own your presence on the web, social web, fediverse all at one place.

Got questions? Drop by the IndieWeb chat! https://chat.indieweb.org/dev


This is day 35 of #100DaysOfIndieWeb #100Days

← Day 34: https://tantek.com/2023/072/t1/blog-as-if-ai-trained-posts
→ 🔮


¹ https://schedule.mozillafestival.org/session/UEEGYL-1
² https://mozilla.social/
³ https://indieweb.org/microblog.pub
https://indieweb.org/micro.blog
https://tantek.com/2022/301/t1/twittermigration-bridgyfed-mastodon-indieweb
#MozFest #Mastodon #socialWeb #socialMedia #Mozillians #fediverse #IndieWeb #webdev #100DaysOfIndieWeb #100Days

I wrote a small python script that takes the CSV of the accounts you follow and converts them into an OPML file that can be imported into an RSS reader.  This way you can read all your RSS feeds and follow Mastodon accounts in one place.

The script is available on GitHub.

#indieweb #python #rss #technology

https://www.jdzero.net/2023/03/22/mastodon-to-rss/

I hate it when there isn't parity between iOS and Android for one particular application, particularly if it's an app that's not for productivity as much as for enrichment. As a tech witch, I have found ways to use technology to assist with spiritual communications. I will seriously buy a cheap tablet just to run Indigenous and valhalla+. Indigenous is for the #indieweb, while Valhalla+ is for Viking communications with the gods and lots of other cool pagan features.

I am once again asking you to own your notes, rather than tweeting them into Big Chad’s garage.

Maybe you left the big garage and now toot in your neighborhood Chad’s garage. It’s still someone else’s garage. https://xkcd.com/1150; #IndieWeb

Maybe it was an easier first step to take. Time to take the next step, with your own domain, and a turnkey service like https://micro.blog/;, or an https://indieweb.org/CMS; if you prefer, or go full stack and make it yourself, using building blocks like https://indieweb.org/Indiekit;.. Just https://indieweb.org/start.

This is day 1 of my 2023 #100Days project, #100DaysOfIndieWeb, posting an #IndieWeb encouragement, tool, or tip at least once a day for 100 days, to setup and use your own personal site instead of someone else’s garage.

In the theme of: https://indieweb.org/100_days#100_Days_of_IndieWeb

Previously: https://tantek.com/2022/001/t1/12-years-notes-my-site

← ✨
→ Day 2: https://tantek.com/2023/002/t6/key-owning-notes-domain-name;

Decentralized Social Media Rises as Twitter Melts Down

ActivityPub is the kept as small as possible. The translation RSS -> ActivityPub can be done by independent service, I've written one for bovine here. I haven't gotten around to updating the package names there yet, but I think all that needs to be changed is bovine_core -> bovine.

I can hardly believe it, after two years I finally managed to work through all my tweets and sort them out properly. All tweets that remained, I have taken over to my website following PESOS.

There were really so many posts whose context I no longer understood myself. How should it expect it from others?

#indieweb

Go Time

#hugo #webdev #time #parsing #microformats

Found out about the #HomebrewWebsiteClub on the #IndieWeb site. It’s

“a growing world-wide network of meetups for everyone who wants to take back their web experience from #socialMedia silos, and own their online identities & content, or just want support with #blogging!”

I’ve been anti-digital sharecropping for awhile and with my new #blog, this is right up my alley.

I’d love to try to do a #meetup locally in person but this might be a cool thing to do as a monthly #webchat here on #Mastodon/the #Fediverse.

Comment or boost if you’re interested in joining a regular webchat here.

https://indieweb.org/Homebrew_Website_Club

Kind of odd to me that #ActivityPub doesn't support following #RSS feeds in the spec. #IndieWeb 🤷‍♂️

Do you use indieauth?

Check out my blog post on implementing indieauth and enabling h-entry on my website using Datenstrom Yellow Flat File CMS.

https://lifeofpablo.com/blog/i-added-indielogin-to-my-site-and-making-it-h-entry-compatible

#indie #indieauth #indieweb #community #w3c #opensource #datenstrom #cms #implementation #hentry

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IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf planning, A People’s History of Twitter, and an AI’s history of James. It’s your < 5min update on the #IndieWeb community!

This Week in the IndieWeb audio edition for March 11th - 17th, 2023. https://martymcgui.re/2023/03/18/this-week-in-the-indieweb-audio-edition--march-11th---17th-2023/

This Week in the IndieWeb Audio Edition • March 11th - 17th, 2023

#podcast #IndieWeb #this-week-indieweb-podcast

Here is my plan for testing the IndieWeb plugins. Day 31 of #100DaysofIndieWeb, #IndieWeb, #ProjectJournal The Purpose Testing and Offering Suggestions on the IndieWeb Plugins. One of the plugin authors said that he wished he had a volunteer to help test the plugins. I volunteered. I had to think about how to do this and… (https://tmichellemoore.com/?p=153048)

IndieWeb Plugin Testing and Suggestions Project – Planning

Here is my plan for testing the IndieWeb plugins.

Day 31 of #100DaysofIndieWeb, #IndieWeb, #ProjectJournal

The Purpose

Testing and Offering Suggestions on the IndieWeb Plugins. One of the plugin authors said that he wished he had a volunteer to help test the plugins. I volunteered. I had to think about how to do this and the steps are below.

The Scope

The scope includes all plugins on the IndieWeb plugin plugins page that don’t require a classic theme.

Assumptions

A block theme and not a classic theme will be used.
Some plugins won’t be tested because of the use of a block theme.

The Plan

List the Plugins. (Name, descriptions, WordPress.org link, IndieWeb.org link, and GitHub link)
Pull the descriptions from the IndieWeb plugin interface.
Pull the descriptions from the plugin page on WordPress.org.
Pull the description from IndieWeb.org.
List the features based on the WordPress.org description.
View the plugins settings page to try to identify the feature through the settings.
Test the plugin by performing an action related to the features list and record the results.
Record the test results.
Record my suggestions.
Put it in a blog post.
Post negative results on the plugin’s GitHub page, if I see an error.
Let David S. know in the IndieWeb WordPress Slack channel.

#100daysofindieweb #indieweb #projectjournal

https://tmichellemoore.com/blog/indieweb-plugin-testing-and-suggestions-project-planning/