@chrisaldrich

This cannot be boosted hard enough. Especially as I'm looking to use ActivityPub and #IndieWeb stuff together as a commenting and forum system for my personal site...

Damn. That didn't work. Trying to figure out how to pass the "exercise" microformat with a link to activity since Strava is being a jerk about this and not passing info if it's not a ride/walk/run. &h=entry&exercise doesn't work, so next I'll try &h=entry&kind=exercise. #indieweb #WillMakeThisWork

The Quick Start page at https://indieweb.org/Quick_Start has some inexpensive and user friendly options as well as some indication of their levels of IndieWeb friendliness. Beyond this, WordPress has a reasonably low self-host bar with lots of options depending on how much time you want to spend on the hosting/maintenance.

#indieweb #self-hosting

https://boffosocko.com/2022/12/08/55812509/

OK I think I may have figured out how to automate posting of exercises to my website. If this works I'll do a write-up. #Indieweb

I'm having a really hard time getting non-techie folks to care about #IndieWeb or open web values.

I'm talking about (highly) educated folks here. All of them are pro social justice and have (or say they have?) the anti-corporate values I'd expect this to appeal to.

Mastodon is "too confusing" and me making a website not designed to sell anything but just to share my interests is "old school". Also "blogging is dead". Also tech is for techies.

I want this to change.

#OpenWeb

The more I look at #webdev as a not-full-time practitioner, the more I start to appreciate what I think of as the #indieweb position:

The basic document structure of the web is #HTML.

The basic layout engine is #CSS.

The more that a framework leverages these things directly--puts them in front of code authors and also expresses them clearly in its output, the better it is.

The more a framework hides or misrepresents them or doesn't engage with their semantics, the worse it is.

For the past several years I've been POSSE-ing. In Indieweb terms that means to publish content on my own site and syndicate it to other platforms. I've decided I'm going to discontinue using automation in favor of manually writing posts for each of the platforms I want to post to.

🔗 More on my blog: https://cdevroe.com/2022/12/08/disbanding-posse

Inspired in part by @SaraSoueidan

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#indieweb #blogging

What is the most simple and cheapest way to #selfhost your own #blog or #microblog? I’d really like something that fits in with the protocols used by the #IndieWeb massive. Also, something that is simple to post from a smartphone. Pleeeease 😋

I think the easiest way would be to create a separate HTML page for the updates and add microformats for note posts. Then plug that URL in to Granary (https://granary.io/?x=118&y=19&input=html#logins) and convert it to RSS. Granary will give you an RSS URL that people can subscribe to in a reader. That way you don't have to mess with RSS and XML, which can be messy. I do this for the feed of my notes: https://gregorlove.com/notes.atom redirects to the Granary magic and voila!

Indies of Mastodon, Especially those who have moved from Twitter; I believe you did so in-spite of Twitter being the lifeblood of an indie because you don't conform to the idea that indies should be constantly pimping themselves, Simp for Billionaires and Strive to become celebrities themselves. If so,

What do you do?

How do you compartmentalize the evils of unfettered capitalism and still do business?

How do you be a lesser capitalist?

#indie #indiedev #indieweb #indiegame #philosophy

@osi I replied to @webmink’s original thread here https://mastodon.sdf.org/@mjgardner/109475883376824296

Key takeaways: #Mastodon and #ActivityPub are not the only game in town. #IndieWeb was here first. The two can and do co-exist, though.

@webmink @osi #IndieWeb standards *can* work on social sites, even in parallel with #ActivityPub (see https://micro.blog). But it’s fundamentally a community effort to be connected while still owning your content.

@webmink @osi The #IndieWeb has been replying to #RSS (or anything else posted on the web) for *ten* *years* with #webmentions https://indieweb.org/reply

But it’s not wrapped up in a social networking stack that managed to welcome the #TwitterExodus of people who just wanted to post and reply on yet another platform they don’t own. (Yay, now there’s a *federation* of services that don’t have to answer to their users!)

Oops, figured something like that might happen. Imported my posts AND replies through RSS and then those proliferated through cross post after cross post like a mirror. Apologies for the multiple tags and spam, should be resolved now. #indieweb #microblog

A Creator of ActivityPub on What’s Next for the Fediverse

So…I know how to cross-post from Micro.blog to a Mastodon account, but what about the other way around? #indieweb #microblog

MEMO

TO: app developers considering #Mastodon and other #ActivityPub related apps and interfaces

Perhaps spend a day or two to add Micropub support to the platform first, then your app could potentially be used to publish to ANY website/platform that supports the W3C spec. #OpenWeb #IndieWeb #FTW

https://boffosocko.com/2022/12/07/55812480/

I was curious how easy it is to make a web page from a markdown editor (using "export as html"). Turns out, it's pretty easy! Looks great, too! I used #Typora for this.

I'm sure I'll use this for making landing pages, sharing lists with folks, sharing notes. It feels like this really fits with IndieWeb values of being able to have your own space and own and edit your own content. I'm always looking for ways that people can share their stuff easily.

https://eilloh.net/testerama/easywebpage/index.html

#blogging #IndieWeb

Added a Micro Blog page on my website that syndicates from my #Mastodon toots. https://abhinavsarkar.net/microblog/
#indieweb

New rambling blog post about a general distrust in the term "terrorist." Not meant to be a deep-dive on the subject, just a brain dump really. #indieweb
https://www.vzqk50.com/blog/scraps/define_terrorist/