The wood wide web has been a powerhouse metaphor for popularizing the mutualistic relationships of healthy forests. But like a struggling forest, the web is no longer healthy. It has been wounded and depleted in the pursuit of profit. Going online today is not an invigorating walk through a green woodland—it’s rush-hour traffic alongside a freeway median of diseased trees, littered with the detritus of late capitalism. If we want to repair this damage, we must look to the wisdom of the forest and listen to ecologists like Simard when they tell us just how sustainable, interdependent, life-giving systems work.
A beautiful piece by the brilliant Claire L. Evans.
The project of decentralizing the web is vast, and only just beginning. It means finding a way to uproot our expression and communication from the walled gardens of tech platforms, and finding novel ways to distribute the responsibilities of infrastructure across a collective network. But we needn’t start from nothing.
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Coffee chat has begun at today's mini- #IndieWebCamp on note taking, wikis, digital gardens, zettelkasten, commonplace books, et al.
Come join us.
#GardensAndStreams #PKM
https://events.indieweb.org/2021/09/gardens-and-streams-ii-pPUbyYME33V4
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Here’s a nifty little service from Zach: pass in a URL and it returns an image of the site’s icon.
Here’s mine.
Think of it as the indie web alternative to showing Twitter avatars.
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@MikeKra36812131 Perhaps a bit more free-form with a tangential name, but let's give it a whirl and see who would show up:
https://events.indieweb.org/2021/09/gardens-and-streams-ii-pPUbyYME33V4
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RSVPed: Attending Gardens and Streams II
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Taking the indie web to the next level—self-hosting on your own hardware.
Tired of Big Tech monopolies, a community of hobbyists is taking their digital lives off the cloud and onto DIY hardware that they control.
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September 25th, online:
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I’ve updated my IndieWeb wiki profile page to better reflect my recent projects.
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A very open and honest post by Nolan on trying to live with technology without sacrificing privacy.
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Right now I'm attending the #IndieWeb #IndieAuth pop-up to look at further improving the specifications, and making it easier for folks to implement and integrate
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Micro Camp has wrapped up, but there are IndieWeb online events about once a month. I’ll be attending the IndieAuth popup session next week!
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@vv4rner While I love what RSS enables and there's a huge ecosystem for it, I am against it for DRY reasons. It's stable in the fact that no one has iterated on it in over a decade. It also helps that WordPress core handles a lot of the admin tax for me on maintaining it, but it has caused metacrap issues for me in the past.
So what to do to replace RSS? If you look at most of my content, I've got the HTML marked up with (richer) microformats for those who'd like to consume that directly without needing a side file for it. There's an existing ecosystem of microformats parsers and even social readers that use microformats over RSS. Incidentally microformats are also part of the semantic layer that makes site-to-site converstions on IndieWeb-based sites work better.
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Your attentive kindness doesn’t get picked up by any analytical tool I’ve got other than my heart and my memory—however short lived.
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"text": "Taking a cross country flight\n\n\n\nHowdy! Let me introduce myself; my name is Marcus Povey, and I\u2019m a software developer / full stack software engineer currently based in Europe. My clients include software houses, financial and governmental institutions, news agencies, and companies both large and small.\n\n\n\nI have helped build life saving medical software, secure messaging systems, high performance video platforms, and Open Source projects used around the world.\n\n\n\nMost recently, I\u2019ve been heading up a team of skilled software engineers developing software to facilitate and deliver cutting edge science across Europe, primarily in the fields of structural biology. I collaborate with some of the most important centres of scientific excellence, across Europe and beyond. I am involved in some of the most important and large scale EU Open Access projects developing new ways to access and reuse scientific research, including helping with the response to the global COVID-19 pandemic. I have spoken at large scale scientific conferences, and have helped shape EU data sharing policy.\n\n\n\nPreviously, I was the technical lead on the Elgg project, an Open Source social networking platform. This software is used by companies, universities and governments around the world to improve the efficiency of communication both internally and externally. I am also involved in the development of the Known platform, a modern social publishing platform that incorporates many Indieweb technologies.\n\n\n\nIf you\u2019re interested in knowing more about my professional experience, you can check out my resume. I am also available to hire!\n\n\n\n\u00bb Work with me!\nOutside of my professional life, I am passionate about travel. I live a fairly nomadic existence, and am always interested in exploring and living somewhere new.\u00a0\n\n\n\nI also collect hobbies like precious shinies.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRight now I am training a number of martial arts (currently Judo, Capoeira, Boxing, Muay Thai and Krav Maga), I enjoy rock music, power lifting, archery, black smithing, I climb when I can, ride motorcycles, and pilot light aircraft.\n\n\n\nLet\u2019s go!",
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