Scheduled more podcast episodes. I *love* places that let you do this! Makes me look far more productive than I actually am! But if you wanna check out the podcast which features serialized versions of my audiobooks, and narrated blog posts, go here https://weirdwritings.pinecast.co/ #Audible #Audiobooks #Audiobook #Blog #Blogs #IndieWeb #Podcast #Podcasts

RSS, Syndication, and the Future of the Web

This is a potted history of blogging, podcasts, and why I think things might not be so grim for the future of the web. 🔄📡 #RSS #WebDev #OpenWeb #IndieWeb #Syndication #Podcast

https://www.kevinrkuhl.com/blog/2026/02/rss-syndication-and-the-future-of-the-web/

I built a postroll for my site using Linkding (self-hosted bookmark manager) and Flora (static site generator that @nickv created).

It's still a work in progress, but I'm already happier with it than my previous blogroll, which didn't give me enough granularity:

https://kat5.dev/postroll

#indieweb

#blogues #indieweb #blogroll

As redes sociais nos ensinaram a nos cercar de iguais. Mesmas opiniĂ”es, mesmos repertĂłrios, mesmas bolhas. A desgraça do algoritmo reforçando isso o tempo todo: quanto mais previsĂ­vel vocĂȘ for, mais ele te entrega versĂ”es de vocĂȘ mesmo.

Mas o blog faz o contrĂĄrio porque ele abre uma porta para desconhecidos. Pessoas que vocĂȘ nunca viu, de cidades que vocĂȘ nĂŁo conhece, que hegam ali por caminhos improvĂĄveis.

Elas leem sobre sua vida, suas ideias, seus tropeços. Às vezes deixam um comentário. Às vezes mandam um e-mail. Às vezes só passam
 Mas tenho certeza absoluta que elas sempre levam algo!

Em: Todos deverĂ­amos blogar mais (e nos conectar mais com estranhos!)

if anyone here is interested in the Indieweb, here's a cool primer. I have an omg.lol account, and it's truly a delightful place. #indieweb #smallweb
https://brennan.day/a-beginners-guide-to-the-indieweb-for-writers-who-dont-code-but-maybe-want-to-a-little/

> I’m sure I’ll fall for that voice in my head many more times. And I hope I’ll manage to crawl back up again and again.

#blogging #indieWeb

🍜 Writing with doubt https://robertbirming.com/writing-with-doubt/

You need to make your bed

What to do when you are at rock bottom, from someone who's been there.

https://lzon.ca/posts/life/make-your-bed/

#indieweb #smallweb #blogging #personalweb #depression #mental-health

Content warning:Article: Postcard from San Diego

Another postcard for my collection; this time from an indieweb blogger who was previously JUST outside of my circle - Joe from ArtLung. There's something in this.
Read more: https://danq.me/2026/02/03/postcard-from-san-diego/

#article #blogging #indieweb #internet #postcards

New post on chronosaur.us - lunchtime boundaries. https://chronosaur.us/lunchtime-boundaries/
#blog #blogging #indieweb #smallweb

Looking back at January, I am watching **way too much** YouTube, particularly Shorts 😬 I also haven't touched my feed reader in *months*!

Let's see what happens in Feb if I delete the YouTube app on my phone, and reorder my apps so that Reader is where it was đŸ€ž

#FeedReader #RSS #IndieWeb #YouTube

First step toward full IndieWeb support for Jottit: social links. Add your GitHub, Mastodon, or other profiles in settings and they'll appear in your footer with proper rel="me" verification. #indieweb

RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/116005974914964322

Let's take social media back from the platform owners and give it back to its true owners, the communities.

The community sets the rules, and the community manages. No one's data has to be a resource for someone else.

#indieweb #fediverse #independentweb

🔖 Bookmarked: Understanding blogs – Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden https://tracydurnell.com/2023/01/15/understanding-blogs/

Tracey Durnell breaks down what personal blogs are.

đŸ”„ Read more: https://flamedfury.com/bookmarks/understanding-blogs-tracy-durnells-mind-garden/

#Blogging #Personalweb #Indieweb

Let me tell you about OpenMentions



OpenMentions is a website I made around the idea of OpenTopics, which are targets for WebMentions with a standing invitation to tag them whenever you want. This, I hope, creates a little more discoverability in the WebMention ecosystem.

OpenMentions also supports ActivityPub.

Eh, what, Matt?

This post is about my website, which you can add comments to from your own website.

If your website supports WebMentions (the tech that does all that) and auto-sends mentions, all you need to do is add a link to the topic page (or question of the week). If not, there’s a ping thing where you can post your link on the page you linked to.

WebMentions are a better, more modern Trackback.

Why, though, Matt?

Not long after I started using WebMentions, I started to think thoughts. Dangerous, I know. My thoughts ran something like this:

I remember when Technorati was cool. It used to index blog posts.

I wish we had something like that now, but a bit more IndieWeb.

These WebMention things are great. You could use them to live update blog topics. I wonder why no one has done that yet.

With those thoughts refusing to leave my head, I saw an idea I could make happen. That was when I made OpenMentions. I was, I would later learn, following the IndieWeb principle of make what you need. Closely followed by use what you make.

I tag OpenMentions from many of my blog projects and try to encourage others to do the same. To avoid drowning out less frequent voices, I try not to tag it too much.

Okay, sure. What’s the tech behind OpenMentions, Matt?

Because I lacked the spoons to code something from scratch, I took a few minor shortcuts. I created a WordPress blog, custom-themed it (not my best work) and used the excellent WebMention (and later, ActivityPub) plugins. After all, why reinvent the square wheel?

I wrote a simple plugin to help me add topic pages.

That’s it. Not much at all.

You said something about OpenTopics. What are they, Matt?

OpenTopics is the theory I cooked up first. My idea was that my website should not be the sole endpoint because it could go away.

I envisage a set of meta tags that all topic end points to be found and followed. But, for now, all I do is link from a topic page to other websites that want to host more specific topics.

You silly-billy, Matt. IndieNews is a thing!

I first learned about IndieNews in the last few days from Wojtek Powiertowski’s blog post, “Exploring the Smallweb and IndieWeb“. To be honest, I might not have made OpenMentions if I found IndieNews first.

I think both can coexist because the overlap is only a good thing. I’m about to go add links to IndieNews to OpenMentions.

Who can use OpenMentions?

Anyone at all.

What about spam then?

Because WebMention checks for an inbound link, spam has been entirely self-filtering up to now. Long may that last.

Hey Matt, you broke something. My ping was accepted, but I don’t see my comment.

WordPress holds comments from places it has not seen before for manual approval. I keep meaning to write a plugin that will auto-approve WebMentions and ActivityPub replies. I’ll get there eventually unless someone beats me to it.

I have suggestions, Matt

Every topic page has a topic meta. If you need to be more general, the OpenMentions Mentions page exists. Send a mention ping to whatever chatty meta bit you want to talk about.

Or comment here (even though OpenMentions is where the cool kids are).

In conclusion

In conclusion. I made a thing. It is sort of like a forum, except you use your own website (or Mastodon account). It is free, open to all, and (in my egotistical opinion) rather cool.

I would love more people to use it.

PS

I’m writing this for IndieWeb News and filing this as IndieWeb on OpenMentions. If you read it on MatrixDreams.com, the middle bit has some cool formatting.



#ActivityPub #IndieWeb #OpenMentions #Webmentions