Jeremy Cherfas jeremycherfas.net

I have to test a webmention

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        "text": "Sometimes, a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.\nLike send a webmention to himself. Because someone else was getting an error when they tried to send one.\nAnd then, maybe, I can try using Telegraph to resend Chris' original.",
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Jeremy Keith adactio.com

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        "text": "15 years of blogging (and 3 reasons I keep going) - Austin Kleon\n\n\n\n\n  Why keep blogging? For me, there are at least 3 good reasons:\n  \n  To leave a trace.\n  To figure out what I have to say.\n  Because I like it.",
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Matthias Pfefferle notiz.blog/author/matthias-pfefferle/

WP Meetup Stuttgart – IndieWeb und WordPress

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        "text": "Gutenberg compatibility would be killer. All the tools are there in Gutenberg to make awesome IndieWeb friendly posts, but might be difficult to get it to play nice with the current plugins & themes.",
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        "text": "You have hit upon one of the great conundrums of the IndieWeb - everyone loves static sites until they want to do something dynamic \ud83d\ude04I know you already moved off Next.js but I use that now, and it can actually be a mix of statically generated and dynamic content which works great for me.The other thing to look into is basically fancy build steps. I don't really know if it is common in Jekyll, but in things like Gatsby and 11ty it is quite common to have a build step that pulls data from external sources, then new builds can be fired by webhooks.",
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Jamie Tanna www.jvt.me

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Marty McGuire martymcgui.re

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Manton Reece www.manton.org

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        "html": "<p><a href=\"https://sunlit.io/\">Sunlit 3.0 for iOS</a> is now available in the App Store! It\u2019s built on the foundation of Micro.blog, but just for photos, and it can also publish to WordPress or IndieWeb blogs. Kind of like Instagram except no ads, no algorithms, and no Facebook.</p>",
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Jamie Tanna www.jvt.me

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        "text": "Reminder that it's #HomebrewWebsiteClub Nottingham tomorrow! I hope to see you there at 1730 for some website stuff! https://events.indieweb.org/2020/09/homebrew-website-club-nottingham-WAiW57QjvHe2",
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        "html": "<p>Interesting thought on how having generic tools for publishing lost us some of the fun of hand-crafted homepages.</p>\n<blockquote><p>once you are given a tool that operates effortlessly \u2014 but only in a certain way \u2014 every choice that deviates from the standard represents a major cost.</p>\n<p>\u2013 <a href=\"https://stackingthebricks.com/how-blogs-broke-the-web/\">How the Blog Broke the Web \u2013 Stacking the Bricks</a></p></blockquote>\n<p>I hear that \u2013 publishing through WordPress got me lots of IndieWeb goodness, but I feel a bit restricted in other ways sometimes. That said, you definitely should have tooling available for people who can\u2019t/don\u2019t want to hand-roll everything.</p>\n\n\nAlso on:<p><a href=\"https://social.coop/@neil/104785532460024176\"> social.coop</a></p>",
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Manton Reece www.manton.org

Countdown to Sunlit 3.0: Tumblr blogs

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        "text": "I think my ideal social world will be a mixture of the IndieWeb and Secure Scuttlebutt view of things.",
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        "html": "Replied to <a href=\"https://diggingthedigital.com/indieweb-we-zijn-er-nog-niet/#comments\">a post</a>\n\n\nI am less active too right now, in the sense of building anything or attending events. \n<p>But I hope that just regularly posting and being visible as part of the wider IndieWeb is a useful contribution, too.</p>",
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        "html": "Related: this is a really fun listen from Doug Belshaw. He discusses IndieWeb and the issues he sees with it.\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2020/01/01/microcast-81/\">Microcast #081 \u2013 Anarchy, Federation, and the IndieWeb</a></p></blockquote>\n\n<p>Doug has a preference for the Fediverse as an approach to an open web, and says the political philosophy of the IndieWeb is a type of right-libertarianism, because it lacks social equality, and without that it is just a focus on individual freedom.</p>\n<p>My gut response is that I disagree of course. But it\u2019s a great jumping off point for some thought and reflection\u2026</p>\nAlso on:<p><a href=\"https://social.coop/@neil/104769213095468630\"> social.coop</a></p>",
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Plaidophile: Incremental progress

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There\u2019s also still a distinct lack of availability of private posting; while I\u2019ve focused on that for my own tooling, it\u2019s not a core feature in any of the other IndieWeb publishing platforms that I know of, nor are there any reader mechanisms that yet support <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/IndieAuth_Ticket_Auth\">Ticket Auth</a>. Plus, there\u2019s also the overarching problem that IndieWeb more or less requires that people own their own domain name, which is also a major technical hurdle for people to overcome.</p><p>But none of this means that this work isn\u2019t worth doing! Building new things takes a lot of incremental process, especially when it comes from hobbyists who are trying to do, in their spare time, what major multi-billion companies have built with huge amounts of investment capital. As a result, much of it is itch-scratch software; we build the stuff that we need in the immediate term, and don\u2019t have the time, energy, or resources to build what makes things accessible.</p><p>To me, the ideal situation would be the commercial social networks embracing open interoperability standards, but I don\u2019t see that coming any time soon. Sure, Jack has <a href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/12/21012553/twitter-bluesky-decentralized-social-network-developers-reaction-mastodon-activitypub\">paid lip service to the idea</a> but so far hasn\u2019t actually shown any signs of actually wanting to participate in anything meaningful. There just isn\u2019t money in this.</p><p>What I\u2019d love to see more of is the easy-to-host blogging platforms like <a href=\"https://wordpress.com/\">hosted WordPress</a>, <a href=\"https://medium.com/\">Medium</a>, and <a href=\"https://tumblr.com/\">Tumblr</a> embrace these protocols; their power isn\u2019t in being a locked-in Entire Social Experience platform so much as in being places where people can post online and interact with other Internet users. They have other monetization strategies that make more sense than requiring complete lock-in. What\u2019s even better is that due to the nature of how IndieWeb protocols work, they don\u2019t even need to add any specific platform support for the vast majority of protocols; they just need people to be able to add various bits of HTML markup to their page templates. (Which is already allowed in varying forms by Tumblr and WordPress, at least!)</p><p>Anyway. All this is to say that IndieWeb people are, as a whole, very much aware of our respective privilege and we all want to get to a point where anyone can join in with as little friction and technical know-how as possible. Users of IndieWeb platforms shouldn\u2019t have to know anything about the different protocols in play; they should just be able to post, follow, and react and it should all Just Work. And there\u2019s absolutely a long way to go from here, but that\u2019s the sort of bridge we\u2019re trying to build.</p><p>Much of the criticism I see comes from people who want to focus on one particular aspect, like how certain outspoken IndieWeb-adjacent people (who aren\u2019t even part of IndieWeb and don\u2019t want to be!) have exclusionary codes of conduct, or how some of the earliest IndieWebCamp gathering photos are filled primarily with cis white men. Diversity is absolutely a problem in tech, but IndieWeb folks are, from my experience, absolutely doing what they can to rectify that; bringing in people from all sorts of backgrounds, trying to boost the minority voices, and being supportive of everyone who is trying to make the world, or at least the Internet, a better place.</p><p>Another form of criticism seems to come from people who are concern trolling about how difficult it is to get in right now, and because \u201c&lt;Facebook|Google|Twitter&gt; has won\u201d there\u2019s no point in even trying, privacy is dead, things are Just Too Hard. Or they might focus on the fact that we\u2019re building things on simple HTML-based structures and then strawman that into \u201cHTML frameworks are hard\u201d or \u201cbuilding a webpage is hard\u201d and like\u2026 that\u2019s skipping several levels of what\u2019s going on here. Yes, HTML <em>as it has evolved in corporate web stacks</em> is \u201chard,\u201d but that doesn\u2019t mean building HTML is hard, and just because we\u2019re HTML-focused doesn\u2019t mean people should have to touch HTML themselves in the first place. And we\u2019re also focused on keeping it simple and not being locked into a single framework or distribution mechanism or whatever, and we\u2019re <em>absolutely</em> avoiding things that require building things in terms of active JavaScript stuff.</p><p>Basically, while the criticism has a kernel of validity and possibly even comes from a good place, it always feels like it\u2019s heavily distorted in bad-faith ways, from people who seem to have an agenda against trying to improve things. I don\u2019t know if they\u2019re actively trying to maintain the status quo, but their rhetoric does a really good job of it all the same.</p><p>It\u2019s easier to criticize and tear down than to work to improve things.</p><p>Some analogies to consider:</p>\n<ul><li>Payments processing is hard. Therefore, nobody should try to build a new retail store; after all, Wal-Mart and Amazon exist already.</li>\n<li>Designing a building is hard. Therefore, nobody should even think about making their own house, and instead they should just move into pre-existing apartment buildings.</li>\n<li>Mass transit is less-than-perfect and electric cars don\u2019t have infinite range; therefore everyone should own a gas-powered SUV and drive themselves everywhere.</li>\n</ul><p>I\u2019d like to share this particularly good video by Tech Connections, about this tendency:</p>\n\n<p>Yes, things currently aren\u2019t perfect. But just because a solution isn\u2019t perfect, or still has a ways to go, doesn\u2019t mean it isn\u2019t worth taking steps in the right direction. You can\u2019t run a marathon in a single step.</p><p>Don\u2019t get caught up in the <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy\">Nirvana fallacy</a>.</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/3876-Incremental-progress#comments\">comments</a></p>",
        "text": "Lately I\u2019ve been seeing a lot of criticism about the IndieWeb movement based on the notion that everything that comes out of it is biased towards people with technology privilege; that it\u2019s all well and good for people who know how to run a website to build their own thing, but that the vast majority of the Internet is made up of people who\u2019d have nowhere to begin. And that it follows that the IndieWeb movement is inherently flawed.I agree with the issues of tech privilege and access, but I disagree with the conclusions.\n\n\nThere are two major aspects to IndieWeb: making it possible for people to own their own data and Internet presence, and making the tools for this accessible. For the most part, the developers have, being developers, focused on the protocol side of things. There are so many amazing protocols which have come about from IndieWeb; in particular, Webmention and mf2 form the backbone of the communications aspects, and IndieAuth forms a fundamental identity component.There is absolutely a lot more that needs to be done. While it\u2019s getting easier for people to join in (via the IndieWeb WordPress plugin or hosted services like micro.blog), it still requires a lot of people to want to overcome the technical hump of joining in, as well as the loss of network effect around the locked-in major social networks (notably Facebook and Twitter). There\u2019s also still a distinct lack of availability of private posting; while I\u2019ve focused on that for my own tooling, it\u2019s not a core feature in any of the other IndieWeb publishing platforms that I know of, nor are there any reader mechanisms that yet support Ticket Auth. Plus, there\u2019s also the overarching problem that IndieWeb more or less requires that people own their own domain name, which is also a major technical hurdle for people to overcome.But none of this means that this work isn\u2019t worth doing! Building new things takes a lot of incremental process, especially when it comes from hobbyists who are trying to do, in their spare time, what major multi-billion companies have built with huge amounts of investment capital. As a result, much of it is itch-scratch software; we build the stuff that we need in the immediate term, and don\u2019t have the time, energy, or resources to build what makes things accessible.To me, the ideal situation would be the commercial social networks embracing open interoperability standards, but I don\u2019t see that coming any time soon. Sure, Jack has paid lip service to the idea but so far hasn\u2019t actually shown any signs of actually wanting to participate in anything meaningful. There just isn\u2019t money in this.What I\u2019d love to see more of is the easy-to-host blogging platforms like hosted WordPress, Medium, and Tumblr embrace these protocols; their power isn\u2019t in being a locked-in Entire Social Experience platform so much as in being places where people can post online and interact with other Internet users. They have other monetization strategies that make more sense than requiring complete lock-in. What\u2019s even better is that due to the nature of how IndieWeb protocols work, they don\u2019t even need to add any specific platform support for the vast majority of protocols; they just need people to be able to add various bits of HTML markup to their page templates. (Which is already allowed in varying forms by Tumblr and WordPress, at least!)Anyway. All this is to say that IndieWeb people are, as a whole, very much aware of our respective privilege and we all want to get to a point where anyone can join in with as little friction and technical know-how as possible. Users of IndieWeb platforms shouldn\u2019t have to know anything about the different protocols in play; they should just be able to post, follow, and react and it should all Just Work. And there\u2019s absolutely a long way to go from here, but that\u2019s the sort of bridge we\u2019re trying to build.Much of the criticism I see comes from people who want to focus on one particular aspect, like how certain outspoken IndieWeb-adjacent people (who aren\u2019t even part of IndieWeb and don\u2019t want to be!) have exclusionary codes of conduct, or how some of the earliest IndieWebCamp gathering photos are filled primarily with cis white men. Diversity is absolutely a problem in tech, but IndieWeb folks are, from my experience, absolutely doing what they can to rectify that; bringing in people from all sorts of backgrounds, trying to boost the minority voices, and being supportive of everyone who is trying to make the world, or at least the Internet, a better place.Another form of criticism seems to come from people who are concern trolling about how difficult it is to get in right now, and because \u201c<Facebook|Google|Twitter> has won\u201d there\u2019s no point in even trying, privacy is dead, things are Just Too Hard. Or they might focus on the fact that we\u2019re building things on simple HTML-based structures and then strawman that into \u201cHTML frameworks are hard\u201d or \u201cbuilding a webpage is hard\u201d and like\u2026 that\u2019s skipping several levels of what\u2019s going on here. Yes, HTML as it has evolved in corporate web stacks is \u201chard,\u201d but that doesn\u2019t mean building HTML is hard, and just because we\u2019re HTML-focused doesn\u2019t mean people should have to touch HTML themselves in the first place. And we\u2019re also focused on keeping it simple and not being locked into a single framework or distribution mechanism or whatever, and we\u2019re absolutely avoiding things that require building things in terms of active JavaScript stuff.Basically, while the criticism has a kernel of validity and possibly even comes from a good place, it always feels like it\u2019s heavily distorted in bad-faith ways, from people who seem to have an agenda against trying to improve things. I don\u2019t know if they\u2019re actively trying to maintain the status quo, but their rhetoric does a really good job of it all the same.It\u2019s easier to criticize and tear down than to work to improve things.Some analogies to consider:\nPayments processing is hard. Therefore, nobody should try to build a new retail store; after all, Wal-Mart and Amazon exist already.\nDesigning a building is hard. Therefore, nobody should even think about making their own house, and instead they should just move into pre-existing apartment buildings.\nMass transit is less-than-perfect and electric cars don\u2019t have infinite range; therefore everyone should own a gas-powered SUV and drive themselves everywhere.\nI\u2019d like to share this particularly good video by Tech Connections, about this tendency:\n\nYes, things currently aren\u2019t perfect. But just because a solution isn\u2019t perfect, or still has a ways to go, doesn\u2019t mean it isn\u2019t worth taking steps in the right direction. You can\u2019t run a marathon in a single step.Don\u2019t get caught up in the Nirvana fallacy.\n\ncomments"
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        "name": "Neil Mather",
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    "url": "https://doubleloop.net/2020/08/28/7107/",
    "published": "2020-08-28T19:46:05+00:00",
    "content": {
        "html": "<blockquote><p>Diversity is absolutely a problem in tech, but IndieWeb folks are, from my experience, absolutely doing what they can to rectify that; bringing in people from all sorts of backgrounds, trying to boost the minority voices, and being supportive of everyone who is trying to make the world, or at least the Internet, a better place.</p></blockquote>\n<p>This is a really good article by Fluffy on the state of the <a href=\"https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/indieweb.html\">IndieWeb</a> and making it more accessible for wider adoption. Just because we\u2019re not there yet, doesn\u2019t mean that we\u2019re not trying.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/3876-Incremental-progress\">https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/3876-Incremental-progress</a></p>\n\n\n\n\nAlso on:<p><a href=\"https://social.coop/@neil/104768731299250273\"> social.coop</a></p>",
        "text": "Diversity is absolutely a problem in tech, but IndieWeb folks are, from my experience, absolutely doing what they can to rectify that; bringing in people from all sorts of backgrounds, trying to boost the minority voices, and being supportive of everyone who is trying to make the world, or at least the Internet, a better place.\nThis is a really good article by Fluffy on the state of the IndieWeb and making it more accessible for wider adoption. Just because we\u2019re not there yet, doesn\u2019t mean that we\u2019re not trying.\nhttps://beesbuzz.biz/blog/3876-Incremental-progress\n\n\n\n\nAlso on: social.coop"
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I Haza Autonomy

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    "published": "2020-08-28T17:29:39+00:00",
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        "html": "<p>Couple of IndieWeb links \u2013 a nice article by <a href=\"https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/20200828182233-ana.html\">Ana</a> on the <a href=\"https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/indieweb.html\">IndieWeb</a> as a space for online <a href=\"https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/20200721194732-autonomy.html\">autonomy</a>. <a href=\"https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2020/08/autonomy-online-indieweb/\">Autonomy Online: A Case For The IndieWeb</a></p>\n<p>It is on Smashing Magazine, so aimed at web developers building their own sites. For hosted IndieWeb services, where you get a site without needing to build it, I noticed that <a href=\"https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/20200828182550-malcolm.html\">Malcolm</a> has added a way to use Haza.Website without needing to register a domain straight away \u2013 <a href=\"https://no.haza.website/\">https://no.haza.website/</a>.</p>",
        "text": "Couple of IndieWeb links \u2013 a nice article by Ana on the IndieWeb as a space for online autonomy. Autonomy Online: A Case For The IndieWeb\nIt is on Smashing Magazine, so aimed at web developers building their own sites. For hosted IndieWeb services, where you get a site without needing to build it, I noticed that Malcolm has added a way to use Haza.Website without needing to register a domain straight away \u2013 https://no.haza.website/."
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Ben Werdmüller werd.io/profile/benwerd

My daily writing process

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        "text": "I've been writing at least a post a day during my short social media hiatus. Although I'm a little bit worried about flooding the folks who subscribe via email - it's occurred to me to limit the mailing list to a couple of days a week and send as a digest - I find it meditative. I tend to write first thing in the morning, right after reading through my feeds in Reeder. I compose on my iPad in markdown using iA Writer and then copy to my site using its \"copy as HTML\" function. iA Writer uses micropub, so theoretically I could publish directly, but I like the opportunity to read over the piece in context before I push the button.As I mentioned on Monday, I've been writing more fiction, which has mostly meant fleshing out a book in Scrivener. I've also been submitting some short stories for publication - my rejection-proof skin has been thickening steadily - and taking part in a few competitions. My round one piece for the NYC Midnight flash fiction challenge placed first in its group. To be honest, I needed the encouragement - and tonight I'll move on to round two with my head held high.I have an iPad Pro with a magic keyboard case, which is strictly for creative work. My work accounts are nowhere to be seen, and notifications are switched off across the board. You can't develop software on an iPad - at least, not really - and I don't use it for coding projects. It's just for writing and drawing. While the OS is locked down to the extent that Apple may be legally forced to open it up sometime soon, I find it makes for a pretty good distraction-free environment. It's one of the best gadget purchases I've ever made. (Who would have thought I'd be so bought into the Apple ecosystem a decade ago? Not me.)But even more importantly, cultivating the space to write and reflect has been an important habit for me. Like regular exercise and eating well, it sets me up for the rest of the day. In a world where we're expected to be always on and instantly reactive, some nearly-offline slow thinking time has proven to be a very good thing indeed. Getting that in first, over a cup of coffee while the morning is still quiet, has been lovely.",
        "html": "<p>I've been writing at least a post a day during my short social media hiatus. Although I'm a little bit worried about flooding the folks who subscribe via email - it's occurred to me to limit the mailing list to a couple of days a week and send as a digest - I find it meditative. I tend to write first thing in the morning, right after reading through my feeds in <a href=\"https://reederapp.com/\">Reeder</a>. I compose on my iPad in markdown using <a href=\"https://ia.net/writer\">iA Writer</a> and then copy to my site using its \"copy as HTML\" function. iA Writer uses <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Micropub\">micropub</a>, so theoretically I could publish directly, but I like the opportunity to read over the piece in context before I push the button.</p><p>As I mentioned on Monday, I've been <a href=\"https://werd.io/2020/another-day-in-hellsville\">writing more fiction</a>, which has mostly meant fleshing out a book in <a href=\"https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview\">Scrivener</a>. I've also been submitting some short stories for publication - my rejection-proof skin has been thickening steadily - and taking part in a few competitions. My round one piece for the <a href=\"http://www.nycmidnight.com/Competitions/FFC/Challenge.htm\">NYC Midnight flash fiction challenge</a> placed first in its group. To be honest, I needed the encouragement - and tonight I'll move on to round two with my head held high.</p><p>I have <a href=\"https://www.apple.com/ipad-pro/\">an iPad Pro</a> with <a href=\"https://www.apple.com/ipad-keyboards/\">a magic keyboard case</a>, which is strictly for creative work. My work accounts are nowhere to be seen, and notifications are switched off across the board. You can't develop software on an iPad - at least, not really - and I don't use it for coding projects. It's just for writing and drawing. While the OS is locked down to the extent that Apple may be legally forced to open it up sometime soon, I find it makes for a pretty good distraction-free environment. It's one of the best gadget purchases I've ever made. (Who would have thought I'd be so bought into the Apple ecosystem a decade ago? Not me.)</p><p>But even more importantly, cultivating the space to write and reflect has been an important habit for me. Like regular exercise and eating well, it sets me up for the rest of the day. In a world where we're expected to be always on and instantly reactive, some nearly-offline slow thinking time has proven to be a very good thing indeed. Getting that in first, over a cup of coffee while the morning is still quiet, has been lovely.</p>"
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Tantek Çelik tantek.com

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        "text": "I believe in the #webPlatform (#EngineDiversityAbsolutist)\nAnd the web as *your platform* (#IndieWeb over #BigTech #socialMedia corporate web)\n\n#webDeveloper @ohhelloana @smashingmag:\n\u201cAutonomy Online: A Case For The IndieWeb\u201d https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2020/08/autonomy-online-indieweb/",
        "html": "I believe in the #<span class=\"p-category\">webPlatform</span> (#EngineDiversityAbsolutist)<br />And the web as *your platform* (#IndieWeb over #<span class=\"p-category\">BigTech</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">socialMedia</span> corporate web)<br /><br />#<span class=\"p-category\">webDeveloper</span> <a class=\"h-cassis-username\" href=\"https://twitter.com/ohhelloana\">@ohhelloana</a> <a class=\"h-cassis-username\" href=\"https://twitter.com/smashingmag\">@smashingmag</a>:<br />\u201cAutonomy Online: A Case For The IndieWeb\u201d <a href=\"https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2020/08/autonomy-online-indieweb/\">https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2020/08/autonomy-online-indieweb/</a>"
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Jamie Tanna www.jvt.me

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