What you’re proud of
I wish there was a place where I could read the story of a person. Everybody’s journey is so different and beautiful; each one leads to who we are. It would be the anti-LinkedIn. And because you wouldn’t “engage with brands”, it would be the anti-Facebook, too. Instead, it would be a record of the beauty and diversity of humanity, and a thing to point to when someone asks, “who are you?”
Man, CoreData can be a pain! CoreData funkiness is currently the biggest thing holding back me getting the next beta of Indigenous for iOS out. Hopefully I can fix it soon so it doesn’t hold up 1.0 for the IndieWeb Summit 😞
Is there a better way for publishers to own their own adtech in a more decentralized #IndieWeb sort of way? What would that look like?
This will be the #indieweb #openweb #dweb event of the year. RSVPs limited to 100 total, sign-up before tickets sell-out: https://2018.indieweb.org/
Recommend closure of issue #3704, works for me, no changes to HTML Standard needed.
#journalism #annotations #indieweb
https://indieweb.org/Indieweb_for_Journalism#Annotations
“It is common to refer to universally popular social media sites like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Pinterest as “walled gardens.” But they are not gardens; they are walled industrial sites, within which users, for no financial compensation, produce data which the owners of the factories sift and then sell. Some of these factories (Twitter, Tumblr, and more recently Instagram) have transparent walls, by which I mean that you need an account to post anything but can view what has been posted on the open Web; others (Facebook, Snapchat) keep their walls mostly or wholly opaque. But they all exercise the same disciplinary control over those who create or share content on their domain.”
Tending the Digital Commons: A Small Ethics toward the Future
It is common to refer to universally popular social media sites like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Pinterest as “walled gardens.” But they are not gardens; they are walled industrial sites, within which users, for no financial compensation, produce data which the owners of the factories sift and then sell. Some of these factories (Twitter, Tumblr, and more recently Instagram) have transparent walls, by which I mean that you need an account to post anything but can view what has been posted on the open Web; others (Facebook, Snapchat) keep their walls mostly or wholly opaque. But they all exercise the same disciplinary control over those who create or share content on their domain.
Professor Alan Jacobs makes the case for the indie web:
We need to revivify the open Web and teach others—especially those who have never known the open Web—to learn to live extramurally: outside the walls.
What do I mean by “the open Web”? I mean the World Wide Web as created by Tim Berners-Lee and extended by later coders. The open Web is effectively a set of protocols that allows the creating, sharing, and experiencing of text, sounds, and images on any computer that is connected to the Internet and has installed on it a browser that can interpret information encoded in conformity with these protocols.
This resonated strongly with me:
To teach children how to own their own domains and make their own websites might seem a small thing. In many cases it will be a small thing. Yet it serves as a reminder that the online world does not merely exist, but is built, and built to meet the desires of certain very powerful people—but could be built differently.
I Don’t Know How to Waste Time on the Internet Anymore
I started a Twitter account, and fell into a world of good, dumb, weird jokes, links to new sites and interesting ideas. It was such an excellent place to waste time that I almost didn’t notice that the blogs and link-sharing sites I’d once spent hours on had become less and less viable. Where once we’d had a rich ecosystem of extremely stupid and funny sites on which we might procrastinate, we now had only Twitter and Facebook.
And then, one day, I think in 2013, Twitter and Facebook were not really very fun anymore. And worse, the fun things they had supplanted were never coming back. Forums were depopulated; blogs were shut down. Twitter, one agent of their death, became completely worthless: a water-drop-torture feed of performative outrage, self-promotion, and discussion of Twitter itself. Facebook had become, well … you’ve been on Facebook.
Thank you for this post! I’ve added some of these spots to my to do list for my wife and I! I’ve been really enjoying reading the articles and I just wanted to thank you for having an RSS feed outside of Facebook. I have recently been removing myself from Facebook after all the privacy drama and am reading all my news and blogs in an RSS reader, so I was pleasantly surprised to find this blog had its own RSS feed!
It’s great that you have a comment form on the posts. You might consider enabling Webmentions. It’s a way for people to post comments to your site from their own. (Like this comment was posted on my website before I posted it here: )
If you are based on wordpress, here is some information: https://indieweb.org/Getting_Started_on_WordPress#Webmentions or if you are running your own website there is some more general information here: https://indieweb.org/Webmention