Trying to get more into blogging and #Indieweb and learn its standards and protocols, check my own personal blog https://rd1.tech/ and subscribe to me RSS feed! also drop your suggestions for further reading materials, I'm really interested in that topic

😍 If you love #RSS or want to (re)start reading #blogs via RSS in 2023, then you’ll love this: @chriscoyier just shared his OPML of developer and designer blogs. 🔥
#YearOfBlogging #personalsites #indieweb

https://chriscoyier.net/2023/01/05/a-big-pile-of-personal-developer-designer-blogs-in-an-opml-file/

The #IndieWeb approach *is* the simpler day-to-day approach.

Once you setup your domain & provider (or host/CMS), you always know where to post.

Your own site.

Write first, defer “destination decisions”.

Create first, edit for audience(s) second.

It’s refreshing & liberating.

Whether text, photos, videos, podcasts, brief thoughts, thinking out loud, a considered essay or “thought piece”, or replies to any of the above, start with your own site.

Why burden yourself with having to decide what to post based on:
* Will this fit in 140^H^H^H 280 characters?
* Or 500?
* Does it need a title?
* Will my photos/videos fit their aspect ratio limits?
* Which four photos for this album? Or 10? What one aspect ratio to crop them all into?
* Will my video fit in 15, 30, 90, or 140 seconds?
* Will I upset Big Chad or be subject to selective enforcement of ever-changing policies?
* Can I edit my post after publishing?

By decoupling creating from “distribution”, or “audience”, or “reach”, or the size of someone else’s storage boxes, you are free to express your thoughts first, then optionally decide if you want to share them elsewhere and edit as necessary.

If you do want to syndicate (POSSE) your post, then you can decide:
* Where else to send your post
* Is it worth your time to edit your post for any particular destination
* … their content limits (number of characters/photos, or video length)
* … their audience expectations or terms of service sensitivities

Creating and editing are different mental tasks.

Decoupling them makes posting easier and you can do a better job at both.

You can defer destination decisions & editing to some point in the future entirely, when you feel it’s worth your time.

You decide how and when to spend time creating vs editing. You are in control.

This is day 5 of #100DaysOfIndieWeb #100Days
Day 4: https://tantek.com/2023/004/t1/choosing-domain-name-indieweb
#IndieWeb #100DaysOfIndieWeb #100Days

Registered for Decentralized Website Communication with Webmention on Jan. 15.

I hope the #IndieWeb continues to gain momentum in 2023. I’m going to try and attend more virtual events like this. https://www.codementor.io/events/decentralized-website-communication-with-webmention-fwusximcte

😮 Fediverse may centralize. Large instances can be #bought. The #CEO of #Tumblr has promised to implement #ActivityPub ASAP, and with 135 million monthly active users, that could make Tumblr the bright #giant around which the rest of the #Fediverse revolves. MacWright speculates that in such a case, “Inevitably everyone's gonna get grumpy that they're dominating the standard and it's no longer an #Indieweb thing, and the cycle starts over."

❓ What's your opinion on this??

Full article:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/01/mastodon-highlights-pros-and-cons-of-moving-beyond-big-tech-gatekeepers/

If you live in Germany or Austria and want to get started with your own website, as part of the #indieweb, it is good to know about the "impressumspflicht". Info in English: https://indieweb.org/Impressum

I don't consider companies like #adobe or Hasbro as anything other than gigantic corporate diseases, so far removed from their founding vision that they've become a behemoth better off slain.

Let’s Take A Minute To Talk About D&D’s Open Gaming License (OGL) | by Noah "MyLawyerFriend" Downs | Jan, 2023 | Medium
https://medium.com/@MyLawyerFriend/lets-take-a-minute-to-talk-about-d-d-s-open-gaming-license-ogl-581312d48e2f

#DnD #opendnd #ttrpg #ttrpgs #dungeonsanddragons #hasbro #wotc #mtg #indieweb

@deerbard how about having a personal website, or use some place in the #fediverse (like mastodon.art or some #pixelfed instance) to call home to store your art ?
We have room at the #cipherbliss instance i manage, and i have quite a lof of history in drawing stuff.
You would be welcome here. Beware, we have lot of French speaking people around :D but they are lovely

#smallweb #ownYourWeb #indieWeb

Blogging is kinda social

I’ve always liked the idea of a CMS-agnostic (!) Microsub/Micropub client, but I’d want to host it myself, because what if it goes down, and so on. But I’d then have to host the Microsub server, too.

This way, I’ve only ever got to keep one (!) app running, one I was running already—my own site! (How’s that for sticking it to 3rd-party platforms?) Hooray

#indieweb

Hey, I'm research for a personal project I'm hoping to do this year. What is everyone favourite site from the years 2000 - 2013ish.
Personally I want study Y2K and Frutiger Aero aesthetics but all are welcome. Boosts are appreciated. I'll Start with some of my favs. Good old newgrounds, ytv, and the old xgen and miniclip sites to name a few.

#Oldweb #Y2K #indieweb #2000s #Retroweb

@jeremy perhaps, although I feel like blogs and comments need to be more dynamic. Integrating #ActivityPub + other #IndieWeb elements could be a nice way to add a little more connectivity between everything.

@tantek.com I really like the phone company comparison for choosing a domain registrar... It's the most finicky part of #IndieWeb , unfortunately :/

I'm streaming working on my site again today.

If you're interested in Next.js the #IndieWeb, or watching me code, come say hi.

https://youtube.com/live/t7crI8PyBGQ

I think I need to do an #indieweb #mastodon #introduction for myself - I'm a #webdev, #guitarist (messing around with #synths and #keys lately too), and have a background in #environmental studies.

I worked as a field #biotech combating #invasiveSpecies before I got tired of the seasonal job hunt and switched to a childhood passion of tinkering with computers.

Lately I've been trying to combine all of my passions - mainly by way of #FOSS, such as #iNaturalist and #audacity.

Say hi!

If you can’t play with horizontal scrolling on your personal home page, where can you? #CSS #indieweb https://kevinyank.com/

Good evening #Fediverse :fediverse:! In tonight's #Introduction #ConnectionList #TwitterMigration post, where I help to more richly connect the Fediverse, I'd like you to meet:

@unsw_ai is #UNSW #AI research centre 👋

@oj_gstrein is the Director of #DataScience and society at the University of #Groningen #researcher #academic 👋

@hollie is enthusiastic about #nature, #puns, the #IndieWeb, #reading, #sewing and #knitting (me, too Hollie! 🧶 👋 )

@futilityfunc is a #DataScience person who is interested in #complexity, #DynamicSystems, #systems and #cybernetics 👋

@mythopoetica is a Senior #Lecturer #researcher in #Literature and #CreativeWriting and is into #CriticalTheory 👋

@peridragon designs colourful #knitting patters and is into #history #biology and #StarTrek Knit long and prosper, Peridragon! 👋

@HackingDave is the #founder of Binary Defense and TrustedSec and works in #infosec and is a #hacker 👋

@Ellopunk is into #Linux 🐧, #infosec and is into #ThreatModeling 👋

@ErikC is an #academic #researcher at UniSA and is into #DigitalHumanities, #VirtualHeritage and #SeriousGames 👋

Don't forget to build your own #ConnectionList #FollowFriday so we can more richly connect the Fediverse ❤️

Choosing a domain name is a key step toward getting your own #IndieWeb site. Like choosing an account name (chat, email, Mastodon) but global, feels more personal, and like more of a commitment. Six tips:

1. Use some form of your name (given & family), so you have a chance of having your site and posts show up when people search for you
2. Or a made-up nickname that fits you now and into the future
3. Something easily memorable, speakable, & spellable to better tell people in-person or on the phone (i.e. avoid "cute" or "weird" spellings like dropping vowels)
4. Use https://domai.nr/ to quickly try variants
5. Try to get a .com .net or .org, which are still seen as more legitimate. A .me is ok, as is your country/region (e.g. .us .uk .eu etc. see https://indieweb.org/ccTLD for more examples)
6. Shorter is better for many reasons: https://indieweb.org/short-domains

Once you find an available name, choose a domain registrar, which is like choosing a phone company, except there are more of them. Some recommendations: https://indieweb.org/personal-domain#Domain_Registrars

Got questions, or want more tips & opinions?

Ask in https://chat.indieweb.org/ — you’ll get a lot of sympathy & support as nearly everyone there has gone through this process, and many are eager to share their experiences to make it easier for new folks.

https://indieweb.org/naming is hard, it’s ok to ask for help.

This is day 4 of #100DaysOfIndieWeb #100Days
Day 3: https://tantek.com/2023/003/t1/indieweb-path-chosen-why
#IndieWeb #100DaysOfIndieWeb #100Days

While diving ever deeper into the #yesterweb / #indieweb and the #fediverse and having just rediscovered #knoppix with its #compiz composer and its own style i realise that we -while having gained power- have lost one thing for a long time in the computer hobby: FUN

Creating things not to promote oneself or build a marketable portfolio but just because it can be done and doing could be fun.

I am glad to have (re-) discovered that.

"would you like some cancer and tracking with your website"

- every time a damn site full of text won't load on my crummy third world pre-paid internet SIM

it should just be text! 2023 on the web is hell.

#webdesign #indieweb