There's no path to sustainability for an org like @matrix without institutional funders. If you work for a tech company or org that uses the software, advocate for sponsorship.

We can also donate as individuals, and should if we can afford to.

Join me in supporting The Matrix Foundation:

* Libera Pay: https://liberapay.com/matrixdotorg
* Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/matrixdotorg
* Donor Box: https://donorbox.org/keep-matrix-exciting

#Matrix #FLOSS #Foundations #Fundraising #IndieWeb

Interesting:

https://www.microfeed.org

It's a lightweight CMS for blogs, podcasting, photos, documents, links. Hosted on Cloudflare.

"Microfeed allows you to create your own feed of content (text, audio, video, images, etc.) and host it under your own custom domain. This way, you can own your data and your domain name, reducing the risk of being de-platformed and giving you the ability to migrate your data to a different platform if needed."

#OpenSource #Serverless #IndieWeb #CMS

@atomicpoet the #indieweb folks have a really neat matrix, IRC, gitter, whatever platform bridge, if you check their chat.indieweb.org you can see it at work. People choose from where they want to participate and the bridging does all the magic, it's really neat!

huge thanks to @fluffy for this wonderful blog post on #IndieWeb tech!

https://beesbuzz.biz/articles/11127-What-is-the-IndieWeb

General Articles: What is the IndieWeb? beesbuzz.biz

First part of my IndieWeb app for macOS is ready: login. User can login using their domain 👨‍💻

This series may have interest for the #indieweb crowd on the local timeline

The time for an easily self-hosted personal CMS, designed around the Fediverse and IndieWeb is now.

No, I don’t mean hacking it into a legacy CMS like WordPress. It needs to be modern, and completely focused.

(The CMS I use, Known, had the right idea, about 5 years too early).

So close to having an #indiekit instance stood up. It’s not talking to my MongoDB server container, for some reason. #indieweb #POSSE

@mjgardner fully follow that #indieweb is not a protocol. But in the context of being a software engineer looking to build something, at some point a distinction needs to be understood, "I just built this thing. Is it accurate to claim this is working with the #indieweb?"

@fluffy @tuxracer #IndieWeb is an improv troupe constantly saying, “Yes, and…” The world would do better to understand that exercise.

@mjgardner @fluffy My understanding exactly, #IndieWeb a community not protocol.

Now as an engineer if you want to build something which could be said to be #indieweb compatible #webmentions #activitypub #microformats etc are all just many ways

Nothing more than a well documented HTTP `curl` request is required. The data freely available in the open.

This would in some way put #activitypub under the general umbrella of #indieweb

@fluffy @tuxracer The “winning” narrative also stems from the #Malthusian zero-sum idea that there can only be one winner, which is completely counter to #IndieWeb.

@fluffy @tuxracer By its own definition, #IndieWeb is a community. The protocols are a side-effect. If you’re putting the latter before the former you’re missing the point. https://indieweb.org/IndieWeb

@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.