I, for one, welcome all the independents speaking truth to power, criticizing organizations when they do or encourage harmful actions, especially in a systemic or global scope.

Even better when folks post said critiques to their personal sites. #indieweb

Everyone should blog

A blog is just a journal: a web log of what you’re thinking and doing. You can keep a log about anything you like; it doesn’t have to be professional or money-making. In fact, in my opinion, the best blogs are personal. There’s no such thing as writing too much: your voice is important, your perspective is different, and you should put it out there.

#blogging #writing #sharing #indieweb #blogs #personal #publishing
Posting notes on your site is the “Hello World” of the independent web.

If you speak to the ideals of the #openWeb #decentralizedWeb #distributedWeb #federatedWeb #indieWeb or even #smallWeb, walk your talk: post your notes somewhere you control. Whether static HTML, server-generated from storage, or a service supporting your domain, choose a method that works sustainably for you, and stick to it.

Questions about options and when or why to choose one or another?

Ask: https://chat.indieweb.org/
#openWeb #decentralizedWeb #distributedWeb #federatedWeb #indieWeb #smallWeb
Happy 2022 friends!

12 years ago I began posting notes on my site before Twitter: https://tantek.com/2010/001/t1/declaring-independence-building-it

Have a site? Own your notes in 2022.

Be the #P2P #decentralization you want to see, instead of tweeting to the wind.

Questions? Ask #indieweb community:

https://chat.indieweb.org/

2 years ago: https://tantek.com/2020/001/t1/10-years-notes-my-site
#P2P #decentralization #indieweb

2021 in numbers

#2021 #writing #blogging #publishing #words #sharing #indieweb

I have all of the Indieweb supporting plugins installed. It all seems to be working ok.

Newsblur could send to Micropub

Importing blog archive files

There will be a IndieWeb pop-up session in February about personal libraries: using alternatives to Goodreads, tracking books on your own site, and common formats we can use.

There will be a IndieWeb pop-up session in February about personal libraries: using alternatives to Goodreads, tracking books on your own site, and common formats we can use.

Old Web, New Web, Indie Web

The .new domains are pretty cool, and I am tempted to look at something like indieauth.new or oauth.new, especially to hook it into tokens-pls

IndieAuth for WordPress 4.2.0 Released - December 11, 2021

Building ActivityPub into Known

RSS / Atom / WebSub, IndieWeb, and ActivityPub aside, am I missing actively-used open protocols and standards for subscribing to published content?

Owning my Hashtags

Why I decided to treat hashtags in my (syndicated) content as tags on my site.

Advent of Bloggers 2021: Day 3 | James’ Coffee Blog

James is featuring a different blog every day of Christmas and he chose mine for day three. What a lovely project!

I love writing this series. For the last three days, one of the first things on my mind after waking up is “what blog am I going to feature today?” I have seen so many interesting websites in the last few years. If you ever feel like the web is all the same, I’d recommend checking out the IndieWeb or clicking through the websites I feature in this series. You’ll realise there is still a great deal of creative content on the web written by independent bloggers: you just have to know where to start looking.

#indieweb #blogs #blogging #sharing #writing #personal #publishing #websites #advent #bloggers

Simon Collison | Stream on

Writing has been essential for focus, planning, catharsis, anger management, etc. Get it down, get it out. Writing is hard, but it’s also therapy: give order to a pile of thoughts to understand them better and move on.

I concur! Though it’s worth adding that it feels qualitatively different (and better!) to do this on your own site rather than contributing to someone else’s silo, like Twitter or Facebook.

#blogging #writing #sharing #indieweb #blogs #personal #publishing #stream #notes #tagging

Recording for future reference: I need easy access to creating new channels in Kittybox. The update for the top bar has made all of the channels accessible, so I want to separate my feeds to keep some of the in-the-moment things out of the main feed - for that I need to create a channel, and I don’t know of any Micropub clients that are capable of creating feeds the Kittybox way (specifically, posting an h-feed with a name property as a JSON object).

#Kittybox