"A photoblog is like Instagram, only it's harder to use, your friends aren't on it, and it's owned by you, not a megacorp." 😂 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/davidfg/you-have-to-see-this-place
This is pretty cool being able to sign in to an iOS app with my own website

I’m not a regular WordPress user, but willing to help however I can. There was some discussion in #indieweb-wordpress about capturing these in such a way they can be individually worked on.

Robin Rendle › How to Read the Internet

The past, present and future of RSS.

If I had to choose my Twitter account over my RSS setup I wouldn’t hesitate for a second — I’d throw Twitter right into the ocean.

#rss #syndication #reading #publishing #indieweb #blogging #sharing #writing #feedbin #reeder #history #personal

Microblogging / Paul Robert Lloyd

Paul weighs up the pros and cons of using silos (like Twitter and Facebook) and using the Indie Web. This bit made me want to stand on my desk and cry, “Oh captain, my captain!”:

“The market has proven that consumers want freely available social networks that are easy to use, and used by everyone else. Only centralised services can provide this, not familiarity with a command line and a succession of acronyms and protocols”, says my not entirely fictional naysayer.

I’m not sure this argument follows. While the human desire to connect and communicate easily with each other has been proven many times over, it’s becoming clear that all-encompassing centralised networks are not the solution. That way lies algorithmically-skewed streams of consciousness, layered upon sordid business models and Californian ideology. Fuck that.

The web is agreement, but that doesn’t mean we agree to use the same websites.

#indieweb #twitter #microblogging #publishing #personal #writing #sharing #decentralisation

The IndieWeb outside of Facebook is full of opportunities - The Garage

A nice description of syndication via POSSEing.

(I never thought I’d find myself linking to quality content on Go Daddy.)

#indieweb #posse #syndication #indieauth #relme #publishing
Two exciting #openweb announcements today! 🎂 We're celebrating 1 million webmentions! https://snarfed.org/1-million-webmentions 🎉 Our @W3C WebSub REC and IndieAuth NOTE were just published! https://aaronparecki.com/2018/01/23/34/w3c-websub-indieauth
#openweb #webmention #websub #indieweb

WebSub and IndieAuth Published on w3.org!

#websub #indieauth #w3c #standards

Winter break retrospective & spring semester goals

🎉 Jekyll’s default Minima theme now has #microformats baked in to its templates. Really pleased to see my pull request merged in the latest gem release. #indieweb

https://twitter.com/jekyllrb/status/955551155031101440

#indieweb #microformats #jekyll
Goodbye Baltimore! That was a fun #IndieWebCamp weekend!
#IndieWebCamp #indiewebcamp

My first IndieWebCamp!

This past weekend was IndieWebCamp Baltimore and it was awesome! I’ve been hanging out online with those in the IndieWeb for the past year but until now I was unable to make a trip out to the IndieWebCamps that took place in 2017. Thanks to Marty and Jonathan, Baltimore hosted it’s first ever IndieWebCamp.
#indieweb #indiewebcamp

Owning my authentication

For the last year, since I’ve been involved in the IndieWeb, I’ve used IndieAuth.com for my IndieAuth authentication. It’s a hosted service for authorization and token endpoints that helps bridge the technological hurdle of allowing new people to the IndieWeb to start being able to login using the IndieAuth protocol.
#indieweb #indiewebcamp #token-revocation

Pixel Art!

#indiewebcamp #pixel #art #p3k
Digital Harbor Foundation Tech Center
Setting up for #indiewebcamp day 2! — with microformats

Hello from IndieWebCamp Baltimore!

Fears of the IndieWeb

Most of my online friends and acquaintances will never understand or participate in the IndieWeb, and so I require a bridge between these worlds. On one side I choose what content to post and how it is stored, and it exists mainly on an island that few visit regularly. On the other side is nearly everyone I know, blissfully ignorant of my real home on the web and unable to see any content shared there without manual intervention or working plugins.

This does not all seem bad, though. Maintaining control will require more attention be placed on managing my content, and this time must come from somewhere. I imagine that I’ll slowly begin using social media less, writing more, and learning more about how to develop solutions to problems that arise within my setup.

#indieweb #distribution #syndication #blogging #blogs #independent #publishing #posse

Web Trend Map 2018 – iA

If you are one of those old or young bloggers, please join in. Drop Facebook, drop Twitter and drop Medium for original thought. Own your traffic. You can use them to engage in discussion. But don’t get lost in there. Write daily. Publish as often as you have something to say. Link to other blogs.

#blogging #blogs #indieweb #independent #publishing #writing #sharing #decentralisation