@fluffy aware they are different my understanding is #activitypub is part of #indieweb it's just one protocol of many #microformats being another

unless the term #indieweb is specific to #microformats or some specific protocol ? truly unclear to me

The temperature in the past days was ~11-13 degrees Celsius. For Christmas in South #Romania this is absurd and getting worse by the year.

10y ago it was much much colder and 15y ago we even had some solid chances of snowing before Christmas Eve.

20y ago, by this time, the snow was already some weeks old and adding up, and we were sledding everyday after school from December til early February.

I can't explain how bad it feels to know how it used to be.

#ClimateChange #indieweb

As new federated systems go mainstream, we need to ensure we're supporting the humans and organizations behind them. I'm not just talking about Mastodon, Pixelfed, Peertube, and BookWyrm :blobcatoutage:

This update from The #Matrix Foundation is concerning:
https://matrix.org/blog/2022/12/25/the-matrix-holiday-update-2022

We are on notice. The success of the tech we rely on isn't guaranteed just by merit of our use. We need to invest in these projects and communities.

#ProtocolsNotPlatforms #OpenSource #FLOSS #Foundations #IndieWeb

General Articles: What is the IndieWeb?

There are a bunch of people trying to build social platforms which happen to be #indieweb compatible but unfortunately, building platforms takes time and effort, and getting users on board in a way that provides the resources for that is difficult.

I’d love for working on this stuff to be a full-time job but my available resources mean I’m only able to focus on the parts I personally need, and that’s a common issue in general.

BTW the criticism of #indieweb based on it being “too technical” is absolutely a valid one. It’s more of a set of guides for someone to build IndieWeb-compatible tools, but unfortunately there are very few such tools that have been built for users to just Use.

It’s a tough chicken-egg, because the idea is to make it so *anyone* can join which makes for a bit of a paradox.

This is why I keep evangelizing it to tumblr, cohost, etc, because it’s something the platforms can (and should!) adopt.

@jecxjo yeah, good point, maybe. What would be *great* is if non engineers got involved in open source. Like product folk getting involved in the roadmap, or qa testers testing for humans instead of engineers. Or design people making things look less bootstrap-y (side note, I’m super impressed with the design chops of a lot of the #indieweb folks). Non-engineers working on OSS would make a huge difference, but there’s usually not a reasonable way to do that for them without learning git, &c

That time of the year when I am trying to remember how my site works so I could tinker with it.

#website #indieweb #holidays #eleventy

I’m starting to come around to the idea of #micropub and #indieweb in general, but discovery is so hard. Also, the prerequisite amount of technical knowledge required is sooooo high. People think Mastodon is too technical for goodness sake. That kind of built in gatekeeping rubs me the wrong way. Not that I think it’s intentional, and I know there are a lot of folks working hard on making it more approachable, but maybe that could be a focus instead of designing yet another open standard.

Epilogue 1.5

@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

https://tmichellemoore.com/,
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.

#BikeTooter #blogging

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/