@jlgatewood mastodon.cloud/@jlgatewood

For today's #followfriday I'd like y'all to check out @lonseidman.

Lon has been one of my favorite #technology reviewers for over 10 years and he specializes in showcasing inexpensive and useful technology that the masses may not now about yet. Brilliant man, great content and extremely personable. He also just showed up to the #fediverse recently so check it him out!

#indieweb is also https://blog.lon.tv
@cambridgeport90 indieweb.social/@cambridgeport90

How many #Indieweb folks would be interested in working on such an open source undertaking? I can think of possibly one person; they go by Saphire on IRC. Any others?
#indieweb mastodon.social/tags/indieweb
I wanted to change my #IndieWeb u-photo but I can't since it has spread to god-knows-where. Great system.
I have stopped processing and displaying pictures of others regardless of their (implicit) consent. And no, brid.gy does not equal giving consent.
@oldschooldev masto.futbol/@oldschooldev

I read a bunch of articles "import your masto toots into WHATEVERFASHIONABLE blog tool" because of PESOS.

every #mastodon account has a built in rss feed (just add .rss to the account‘s page like https://masto.futbol/@oldschooldev.rss) and you can use every existing plugin to import a rss feed. #indieweb
@kinoauge mastodon.social/@kinoauge

#Elk is already a great user experience. This will be am important piece of the #Indieweb and #fediverse ecosystem, to have a client that looks and feels modern and is nice to use.
@zinzy tech.lgbt/@zinzy

@m2m I suppose so! I logged on but didn't do a particular thing, as far as I remember, but things are running quite nicely. Are you telling me it's as simple as logging in? If so, that's the most straight-forward accomplishment I've had with the #IndieWeb so far. 🥳
@jlgatewood mastodon.cloud/@jlgatewood

@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...
@arush indieweb.social/@arush

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
#indieweb mastodon.social/tags/indieweb

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/
@arush indieweb.social/@arush

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
@hollie social.coop/@hollie

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
@raphaelluckom indieweb.social/@raphaelluckom

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.
@cdevroe mastodon.social/@cdevroe

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
@drh hackers.town/@drh

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 😋
social.coop/@hollie/109475538420112894
gRegor Morrill gregorlove.com

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!
@abishek_muthian fosstodon.org/@abishek_muthian

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
@mjgardner mastodon.sdf.org/@mjgardner

@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.
@mjgardner mastodon.sdf.org/@mjgardner

@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.
@mjgardner mastodon.sdf.org/@mjgardner

@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!)
@inthedeltawaves mastodon.social/@inthedeltawaves

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