Interesting idea. Now the reason #Fediverse and #ActivityPub is powerful is precisely for everything you state here – it’s that mix of person (agent), your content (whatever it is you pour out), the links or interlinking of everything and your actions (follow, like, respond, share). What will eventually stick is that permutation of these entities that will determine the success or failure of any social network of any scale. #Fediverse is attractive because of its planetary scale beyond boundaries. Which is why #Indieweb, when they include #ActivityPub on their individual sites and decide to #Federate, become so much more powerful. Original static web had this promise but protocols that connect creators with content and activities give that shape.

#social-media #twitter #fediverse

This Week in the IndieWeb Audio Edition • January 7th - 13th, 2023

#podcast #IndieWeb #this-week-indieweb-podcast
Your #IndieWeb site can be the home you’ve always wanted on the internet.

While posting on a personal site has many^1 advantages^2 over only posting to #socialMedia, maybe you already quit social media silos^3.

There are lots of reasons to get a domain name^4 and setup your own homepage on the web.

If you’re a web professional, a personal site with your name on it (perhaps also in its domain) can make it easier for potential employers to find you and read your description in your own words.

If you’re a web developer, a personal home page is also an opportunity to demonstrate your craft.^5

If you’re a writer, you can organize your words, essays, and longer form articles in a form that’s easier for readers to browse, and style them to both be easier to read, and express your style better than any silo.

Similarly if you’re an artist, photographer, or any other kind of content creator.

See https://indieweb.org/homepage for more reasons why, and what other kinds of things you can put on your home page.

Thanks to Chris Aldrich (https://boffosocko.com/) for the header image.

This is day 13 of #100DaysOfIndieWeb #100Days.

← Day 12: https://tantek.com/2023/012/t1/six-years-webmention-w3c
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^1 https://tantek.com/2023/001/t1/own-your-notes
^2 https://tantek.com/2023/005/t3/indieweb-simpler-approach
^3 https://indieweb.org/silo-quits
^4 https://tantek.com/2023/004/t1/choosing-domain-name-indieweb
^5 https://indieweb.org/creator
#IndieWeb #socialMedia #100DaysOfIndieWeb #100Days

I updated my homepage to show the latest photo post: gregorlove.com/#photos

I updated my homepage to show the latest photo post: gregorlove.com/#photos

I added a "Guestbook" to my personal site!

Feel free to drop by and sign it however you please:

https://foreverliketh.is/docs/assortments/guestbook/

Also open to any thoughts / suggestions on its implementation.

#webdev #web #indieweb #website #hugo

New Core Intuition! We talk about marketing and upcoming app plans. I also fixed a feed issue in Micro.blog with it, so posts will start flowing into @coreint@micro.blog again for fediverse folks who want to follow along.

Are there any other indie web makers on Mastodon making cool things?

#indieweb #indie #maker

I'm dying! The Normal Gossip Podcast described 90s internet as

"a magical, lawless land where fewer parts of the internet were centralized so that 4 men could make a lot of money"

#internet #indieweb

One way of getting to know me is my writing and my talks.

Here is a selection of posts within the areas of Digital Ethics, Human Rights, Usability, Accessibility and more – all with a leaning towards design and communication theory.

The Elements of Digital Ethics
AI and Human Rights - video and transcript
The Trouble Diamond
Design for Universal Wellbeing
The world map that reboots your brain
The slavery supported by that device in your pocket
Tech addiction: Why it matters
Digital Compassion: A Human Act
Fairy tale experiences talk at UXLx - my first talk on design ethics in front of an international audience
25 years of online resilience - a newsletter about #indieweb
Digital abuse is hard to leave – by design

I teach, consult and write about these issues. If you want to know more, don’t hesitate to contact me.

#Introduction #DigitalEthics

🎉 Six years ago today, the #IndieWeb Webmention protocol was published as a W3C REC https://www.w3.org/TR/webmention/

A key social web building block, Webmention enabled peer-to-peer comments, likes, and other responses to be created, updated, and deleted across the web, by both dynamic & static websites.

It was accompanied by a report of over a dozen implementations that demonstrated interoperability: https://webmention.net/implementation-reports/summary/ using an open test suite: https://webmention.rocks/ that is still up and running and used by developers today.

Many many more implementations have been developed, open sourced, shipped, launched since. The specification itself has a webmention endpoint and accepts webmentions.

Exactly a year before that, Webmention was published as a First Public Working Draft by the W3C Social Web Working Group: https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/WD-webmention-20160112/

It took the best parts of the prior Pingback protocol, simplified it (ditched XML-RPC), made it more secure, separated presentation from plumbing, and added update & delete semantics.

It was in many ways a model for how open web standards should be developed.

See the wiki page for an overview and numerous screenshots of implementations: https://indieweb.org/Webmention

If you want to implement Webmention yourself, there are now numerous developer resources to do so.

Start here: https://indieweb.org/Webmention-developer and come say hi at the IndieWeb development chat channel: https://chat.indieweb.org/dev

Previously, previously, previously:
* https://tantek.com/2020/012/t1/happy-birthday-webmention
* https://tantek.com/2018/012/t1/anniversary-million-webmentions
* https://tantek.com/2017/012/t1/webmntion-first-w3c-recommendation-high-bar

This is day 12 of #100DaysOfIndieWeb #100Days.

← Day 11: https://tantek.com/2023/011/t1/indieweb-evolving-at-mention
→ 🔮
#IndieWeb #100DaysOfIndieWeb #100Days

I was able to get my #100DaysofIndieweb post today in just under the wire. I was actually able to write it from my phone!

Have a look here: https://crowdersoup.com/posts/projects/indieweb/100-days/day-7-posting-from-my-phone/

#indieweb

Someone should create a service that enables people to establish and retain an identity in the Fediverse. Its great that you can move from instance-to-instance on Mastodon, with redirection, but it would be better if the instance that a user was on was largely irrelevant.

You should be “@ user @ your domain” and seamlessly be able to change backend instances.

opened: Memento Mori, the Yami no Matsuei fanlisting
http://hoshi.nu/yamimatsu/

...okay, it's 3AM, I'm exhausted, bedtime nao.

#YaminoMatsuei #YamiMatsu #fanlisting #fansite #staticwebsite #oldweb #handmadehtml #indieweb #retroweb

I think an often-overlooked tool for us alternative-platform users is bridging/syndication. Not everyone agrees on what platforms to use, and that's okay.

How do we resolve disagreements in platform choice? By bridging between them! We must accept disagreements in choice.

Also known as: https://indieweb.org/bridge_all_the_things

i.e. Philosophies must be progressive -- not in the political sense, but in the "don't expect everyone to use the same platform" sense.

#SocialCoding #IndieWeb #Fediverse

Medium embraces Mastodon