Does anyone know of a WebSub server that does some level of reporting about the information coming in and out of it? This could be used to build niche communities and suggestions for discovery outside of the FAANG echo chambers.
Back at HWC London for the first time in a long long while, and thinking about making some changes around this place. While a Big Rewrite is clearly a Bad Thing, I’ve been looking for a reason to brush up on Node and wean myself off Ruby. Building a new home for myself is quite appealing. And with the Brighton 2019 IndieWebCamp coming up in October perhaps that’s a reasonable target to aim for in terms of a (rough) new site.
HWC London birthday cupcakes!
#IndieWeb
Grateful for your work, and appreciate differences in YT experiences & trade-offs.
Consider also uploading to @internetarchive, or allowing others to do so and link to a non-YT alternative. Thanks 🙏🏻
Was this 2016 or before?
2019: YouTube algo is launching people's conspiracy theories, misogyny, & racism careers: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/08/technology/youtube-radical.html
It rarely promotes sensible content, so why bother posting to it?
@IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf we posted 100% of session videos to @InternetArchive https://indieweb.org/2019/D%C3%BCsseldorf/Schedule#Saturday
@janl not trivial, yet also not complicated
@mountain_ghosts yes we can stop posting to YouTube.
Aside: The Internet Archive’s video pages need #mediafragment support, e.g. #t=300 on the end of URL to cue up the video player to start playing 5 minutes into the video.
This is a test, using an iOS Shortcut to send a note to my Micropub endpoint for syndication to Twitter.#indieweb
— Scott Merrill (@smerrill) June 11, 2019
And here’s a reply from my WordPress admin testing my updates 🙂
Appreciated Creative Passport focus on empowering makers — we’re hosting IndieWeb Summit @MozPDX June 29-30 https://2019.indieweb.org/summit for independent creators of all kinds!
Render Snarky Comments in Comic Sans—zachleat.com
Sounds like Zach had a great time at Indie Web Camp Düsseldorf:
I can’t really express how meaningful this experience was to me. An antithesis to the rat race of social media, IndieWebCamp was a roomful of kindred spirits that care about the web and their own websites and hosting their own content. It felt like the Google Reader days again, when everyone was blogging and writing on their own sites. I dunno if you can tell but I loved it.
He also made a neat little plug-in that renders negative comments in Comic Sans with mixed cased writing:
This isn’t intended to be a hot-take on Comic Sans. Instead it’s meant to change the tone of the negativity to make it sound like a clown is yelling at a kid’s birthday party.
Time for another IndieWeb Meetup! We’re meeting in Brooklyn to be a little closer to the Mermaid Parade.
Come on our and work on your personal website, take ownership of your online identity, content, and relationships! You can do it, we can help.
mathieudutour/medium-to-own-blog: Switch from Medium to your own blog in a few minutes
Following on from Stackbit’s tool, here’s another (more code-heavy) way of migrating from Ev’s blog to your own site.
Khoi Vinh on How His Blog Amplified His Work and Career – Own Your Content
It’s hard to overstate how important my blog has been, but if I were to try to distill it down into one word, it would be: “amplifier.”
Khoi talks about writing on his own website.
I personally can’t imagine handing over all of my labor to a centralized platform where it’s chopped up and shuffled together with content from countless other sources, only to be exploited at the current whims of the platform owners’ volatile business models.
Looking forward to another weekend IndieWeb Meetup!
Join some fun folks and work on your personal website, whether it exists yet or not!
See y’all Sunday at 1pm at Think Coffee on 8th Ave at 14th St.