@acm_redfox agree and that's where the whole #fediverse potential bridge with #indieweb movement and blog revival, combined, it can reshape the way we use the web (less platforms, more user sovereignty) I love these ideas!
I'd say do it!!
Chipping away at setting up an instance of @paulrobertlloyd's #indiekit to publish to my website, and from there to Mastodon. This is the first time I'm going to be writing a Dockerfile (or two) from scratch. Long overdue! #POSSE #indieweb
@the_Effekt @nova Mind you, the same policy gave them the right to make copies of your work when you posted it without guaranteeing they would maintain your access to it. If you want to keep your work, keeping backups is officially Your Problem. That’s why so many self-host and #POSSE syndicate per #IndieWeb values. https://indieweb.org/POSSE
#hn #indieweb "Building a #website like it's 1999... in 2022"
https://localghost.dev/blog/building-a-website-like-it-s-1999-in-2022/
Regarding “this account for your Mastodon posts”, I don’t use an “account”, nor any “Mastodon posts”. I have my website, https://tantek.com/, and use it to directly post notes & replies (like this one). Previously I had a https://xoxo.zone/ account which I have redirected to my website.
Regarding, “not using any other Mastodon accounts”, there is no need to use any other accounts, Mastodon or otherwise, when you can post all notes & replies on your own site where you fully control the display, design, markup etc., without depending on an instance admin.
#IndieWeb building blocks and Bridgy Fed (https://fed.brid.gy/) make all this possible, as described in my post: https://tantek.com/2022/301/t1/twittermigration-bridgyfed-mastodon-indieweb
I'm doing some weeding on a 15 year old bike blog.
I have to remind myself that the mission was to provide actionable information to move people forward, not curate a content museum.
It''s time to ditch the product reviews for products that don't exist any more.
Big Tech supports the infinite storage model, where every post you give them is more lock-in, more data for profiling, more pages to show ads. But for a sustainable, useful #indieweb, I gotta weed the garden.
Shavuah tov and chodesh tov everybody. Welcome to a new week. Just a heads-up for #indieweb folks that if you're using IFTTT to pesos stuff back to your sites, &status=draft no longer works. I'm throwing things at the wall to see what sticks and will post a solve for posting drafts when I find one that works.
Gift calendar season continues and join us for the final meetups of the year. It’s your < 10min update on the #IndieWeb community!
This Week in the IndieWeb audio edition for December 17th - 23rd, 2022. https://martymcgui.re/2022/12/24/this-week-in-the-indieweb-audio-edition--december-17th---23rd-2022/
A beautiful treatise on #InterOperability, the #IndieWeb, and the commercialisation of social platforms from @pluralistic.
Explores what #Mastodon is, and isn't, and the nature of the structures through which we are connected. The internet, Cory Doctorow writes, is in a constant state of struggle between those who wish to encapsulate it, and those to wish to open it.
"The early web was made up of thousands of small firms, hobbyists, and user groups that all used the same standard protocols, which let them set up their own little corners of the internet — but also connected those communities through semi-permeable membranes that joined everything, but not in every way."
https://doctorow.medium.com/what-the-fediverse-does-nt-solve-f2ea32e52afe
@tangentnotes
Not "just". This absolutely *can* be a blog with an RSS feed and webmention support.
Maybe with something like micropub for low-friction posting.
#IndieWeb
But there's value in joining a network like Mastodon, or the fediverse at large. Signing up and not worrying about the underlying tech, conversations with like-minded folk on the same network, etc.
All the reasons you and me are here instead of "just" running a blog.
FreshRSS – A Feed Reader of My Own
I was exploring ways to add an RSS feedreader to my WordPress site and installed PressForward. I was looking for a replacement for my Inoreader subscription. PressForward is a great tool, but a little more than I needed. I could see the benefits for organizations with multiple people that curate, comment on, and publish articles. After explo
https://tmichellemoore.com/blog/freshrss-a-feed-reader-of-my-own/
#IndieWeb #Feedreader #RSS #Self-Hosted
It’s important to note:
Mastodon =/= Fediverse;
Fediverse == #Mastodon, #Pixelfed, #Write.as, #Micro.blog, #Pleroma, #Peertube, #Lemmy etc.
There’s a whole breadth of components that plug into this ecosystem and each one has its own strengths and weaknesses. Its pretty easy to imagine journalists using more than one tool that can get the job done here; Right now I’m doing just that – putting my longer form posts and series on a test blog instance at @jlg@micro.blog (which is neat – see #indieweb for more); keeping a pure Mastodon official presence at @jlgatewood and also being able to talk to #Diaspora networks (the “other” fediverse) over with my #Friendica instance @starrwulfe.
Unlike #birdsite, there’s no one-size-fits-all here; this is an ecosystem– a protocol like email, not just one app/one site. In order to completely understand how it works, it’s important to understand that analogy– Just as there’s some people who will use Gmail; there’s others who use Outlook, Thunderbird, or even Pine in a terminal window. But they can still talk to each other no matter what because the apps still use SMTP/IMAP/POP. The same could be said about the underlying protocol, ActivityWeb, that underpins Mastodon. Therefore, it’s important to make the distinction:
Mastodon is not a social network; it’s a service/app/component within ActivityWeb/Fediverse/OpenSNS*
Let it be known that for the sake of easier explanation in layman’s terms that I’m coining a new term “OpenSNS - Open Social Network Service” as a way of defining what up until now has been called the ActivityWeb protocol powered flavor of the “Fediverse” in order to help those more used to “Big SocialNets” way of doing things in a centralized silo manner. The use of OpenSNS when used as a protocol/underpinning discription is meant to be used in manner of how one would define Apple Homekit, Amazon Alexa and Apple Homkit’s use of Matter to talk to apps and equipment, i.e., Mastodon and PeerWeb are a part of OpenSNS.
cc @jlg@micro.blog @jlgatewood for visibility
Thoughts on decentralization:
- I believe in the decentralized internet and ideas like #indieweb, #fediverse and #selfhosting.
- I'm not interested in cryptocurrency/blockchain/web3, they are bad ideas, or at least bad implementations.
- I believe PoW (proof of work/waste) should be banned globally as it's burning this planet and make everyone's life at stake.
- As a gamer, I consider myself a victim of crypto/PoW for the skyrocketed GPU price and supply chain shortage. (1/2)
@dean @blindscribe I do use #Flickr, and would definitely recommend it as a good alternative to Facebook (full-res originals, proper licence metadata, approximate dates, …) but I wouldn't really call it part of the #indieweb. Not yet, anyway (they don't support #ActivityPup). The most #fediverse image system is #pixelfed I think, although I've not used it so can't really say what it's like. :-) https://pixelfed.org/
I have been remaking my website lately!
It is squarely situated within the retro web or indie web subculture. Only semantic XHTML and CSS, with link lists, blinkies, tons of gifs, playful designs, shrines, blog posts... Like on #Geocities in the far-gone past! Should be accessible too.
It still ought to be filled with content, but we're getting there.
Here you go:
https://libre.town
#xhtml #css #retroweb #indieweb #showcase #blog #internet #yesterweb #reclaimtheweb #oled #website
I want to be free from the confines of this hyper-capitalist world we are living in.
I want to see the Internet that I never got to see — an open, free ecosystem run by enthusiasts from their closets.
I wonder what would be of it in our current highspeed era if it were not killed by corporations and silos.
Perhaps we would have something absolutely beautiful on our hands. Perhaps...we could still have it?