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Project Journal: IndieWeb Webmentions: Create a Custom Block Pattern – From Scratch – Part 2
I didn’t have time today to create a block from scratch today but wanted to add two more resources to my list that Jonathan Bossenger provided…
Read More: https://tmichellemoore.com/blog/project-journal-indieweb-webmentions-create-a-custom-block-pattern-from-scratch-part-2/
#ProjectJournal #100DaysOfIndieWeb #CustomBlockPattern #IndieWeb #ProjectJournal #Webmentions #WordPress
Screenshot of the Fediverse Explorer showing posts tagged dataviz across several Mastodon instances.
Back in November, I wrote about how to use your own domain for Mastodon without hosting an instance: https://www.seanmcp.com/articles/use-your-domain-on-mastodon-with-astro/
However, this approach that uses a redirect seems a lighter-weight solution. Definitely give that a look: https://www.hawksworx.com/blog/alias-your-mastodon-username-to-your-domain-with-one-netlify-config-setting/
~ #webrings watch ~
No #webring today 😢 , but here is an awesome web page about their history written by Ray Thomas (brisray):
https://brisray.com/web/webring-history.htm
A must-read in my opinion!
Never needed the #Fediverse and #IndieWeb more than now.
Quoting @samthielman: https://mastodon.social/@samthielman/109778414341392669 #retoot
Is the #IndieWeb just blogs/blogging?
What if I told you the "indie web"^1 is older than "blog" or "weblog"^2?
The IndieWeb, as it says on the homepage^3, also goes beyond blogging^4.
And those are just the terms.
It should come as no surprise that conceptually:
personal sites in general, predated
personal sites with reverse-chronologically-ordered dated entries.
Good concepts, even if forgotten, tend to be rediscovered & reinvented over time.
When I first used the phrase "indie web" (two words) in 2010^5, I used it descriptively, an informal shorthand for the "independent web". I didn’t find out about the 1997^1 use of the phrase until many years later.
I saw & was a fan of the 2001 launch of the "Independents Day" site & its manifesto^6 (at independentsday(.)org, since offline) that asked “if you create^7 your own site”, to join them. That encouragement stuck with me, and was a source of inspiration nine years later.
In my presentation^8 at the 2010 Federated Social Web Summit^9, I referenced the "indie web" again, and afterwards I proposed to @aaronparecki.com that we start something focused on explicit principles & practices.^10
After subsequent chats & discussions, we settled on the term “IndieWeb” (one word). We started with three essential principles/practices, in today’s terms: “create”, “use what you make”, and “own your data”, which the community eventually expanded into 11 principles^11.
This brings us back to the original question, is the #IndieWeb just blogs/blogging?
In short no. Seemingly paradoxically, blogging is neither required nor sufficient to “be” IndieWeb as we use the term today.
Are IndieWeb sites blogs?
Some (perhaps even most) of them are. However, there are plenty of personal sites that are just a homepage^12, or a handful of static pages like a portfolio^13.
Are blogs IndieWeb sites?
Some of them are, if they are personal blogs, or other forms of independent sites, like small organizations with their own blogs, on their own domains. However the concept of the IndieWeb goes far beyond blogging, or any jargon like decentralization or federation.^4
The aforementioned principles^11 provide a good foundation for the IndieWeb, and a good contrast from the prevailing project-centric attitudes of the day. The practices described inside each principle, such as owning your data meaning owning your notes^14 as well, start to hint at what it means to do & be IndieWeb today.
If you have a blog on your own domain, and yet you post notes as tweets or toots on someone else’s domain, are you “doing” IndieWeb?
Such a split practice could be considered a mid-to-late 2000s approach to the “indie web”, but certainly not the 2023 IndieWeb. Since 2010, the IndieWeb evolved & extended far beyond blogs, into many kinds of posts^15 typical in social media (but lacking in blogs), and site-to-site social web interactions^16, like replies that looked like actual comments, rather than awkwardly displayed blog trackbacks/pingbacks.
Either way, if you have your own site (whether a blog or not) and create with it, like the 2001 Independents Day encouragement, come join us^17, and we’ll help you get setup to do so much more.
This is day 25 of #100DaysOfIndieWeb #100Days
← Day 24: https://tantek.com/2023/027/t5/contrast-domain-chat-name
→ 🔮
^1 1997-02-01 https://web.archive.org/web/20010805195949/http://www.uzine.net/article63.html
^2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog#History
^3 https://indieweb.org/#Beyond_Blogging_and_Decentralization
^4 https://indieweb.org/different
^5 http://tantek.com/2010/123/t2/blogger-turned-off-ftp-what-indie-web-diso (https://twitter.com/t/status/13329370781)
^6 https://indieweb.org/Independents_Day
^7 https://indieweb.org/creator
^8 https://web.archive.org/web/20100723133231/http://federatedsocialweb.net/wiki/2010-199-tantek-fsws-talk
^9 https://indieweb.org/Federated_Social_Web_Summit#Portland_2010
^10 https://indieweb.org/founders#IndieWeb_movement_and_terminology
^11 https://indieweb.org/principles
^12 https://indieweb.org/homepage
^13 https://indieweb.org/portfolio
^14 https://tantek.com/2023/001/t1/own-your-notes
^15 https://indieweb.org/posts#Types_of_Posts
^16 https://indieweb.org/responses
^17 https://chat.indieweb.org/
What if I told you the "indie web"^1 is older than "blog" or "weblog"^2?
The IndieWeb, as it says on the homepage^3, also goes beyond blogging^4.
And those are just the terms.
It should come as no surprise that conceptually:
personal sites in general, predated
personal sites with reverse-chronologically-ordered dated entries.
Good concepts, even if forgotten, tend to be rediscovered & reinvented over time.
When I first used the phrase "indie web" (two words) in 2010^5, I used it descriptively, an informal shorthand for the "independent web". I didn’t find out about the 1997^1 use of the phrase until many years later.
I saw & was a fan of the 2001 launch of the "Independents Day" site & its manifesto^6 (at independentsday(.)org, since offline) that asked “if you create^7 your own site”, to join them. That encouragement stuck with me, and was a source of inspiration nine years later.
In my presentation^8 at the 2010 Federated Social Web Summit^9, I referenced the "indie web" again, and afterwards I proposed to @aaronparecki.com that we start something focused on explicit principles & practices.^10
After subsequent chats & discussions, we settled on the term “IndieWeb” (one word). We started with three essential principles/practices, in today’s terms: “create”, “use what you make”, and “own your data”, which the community eventually expanded into 11 principles^11.
This brings us back to the original question, is the #IndieWeb just blogs/blogging?
In short no. Seemingly paradoxically, blogging is neither required nor sufficient to “be” IndieWeb as we use the term today.
Are IndieWeb sites blogs?
Some (perhaps even most) of them are. However, there are plenty of personal sites that are just a homepage^12, or a handful of static pages like a portfolio^13.
Are blogs IndieWeb sites?
Some of them are, if they are personal blogs, or other forms of independent sites, like small organizations with their own blogs, on their own domains. However the concept of the IndieWeb goes far beyond blogging, or any jargon like decentralization or federation.^4
The aforementioned principles^11 provide a good foundation for the IndieWeb, and a good contrast from the prevailing project-centric attitudes of the day. The practices described inside each principle, such as owning your data meaning owning your notes^14 as well, start to hint at what it means to do & be IndieWeb today.
If you have a blog on your own domain, and yet you post notes as tweets or toots on someone else’s domain, are you “doing” IndieWeb?
Such a split practice could be considered a mid-to-late 2000s approach to the “indie web”, but certainly not the 2023 IndieWeb. Since 2010, the IndieWeb evolved & extended far beyond blogs, into many kinds of posts^15 typical in social media (but lacking in blogs), and site-to-site social web interactions^16, like replies that looked like actual comments, rather than awkwardly displayed blog trackbacks/pingbacks.
Either way, if you have your own site (whether a blog or not) and create with it, like the 2001 Independents Day encouragement, come join us^17, and we’ll help you get setup to do so much more.
This is day 25 of #100DaysOfIndieWeb #100Days
← Day 24: https://tantek.com/2023/027/t5/contrast-domain-chat-name
→ 🔮
^1 1997-02-01 https://web.archive.org/web/20010805195949/http://www.uzine.net/article63.html
^2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog#History
^3 https://indieweb.org/#Beyond_Blogging_and_Decentralization
^4 https://indieweb.org/different
^5 http://tantek.com/2010/123/t2/blogger-turned-off-ftp-what-indie-web-diso (https://twitter.com/t/status/13329370781)
^6 https://indieweb.org/Independents_Day
^7 https://indieweb.org/creator
^8 https://web.archive.org/web/20100723133231/http://federatedsocialweb.net/wiki/2010-199-tantek-fsws-talk
^9 https://indieweb.org/Federated_Social_Web_Summit#Portland_2010
^10 https://indieweb.org/founders#IndieWeb_movement_and_terminology
^11 https://indieweb.org/principles
^12 https://indieweb.org/homepage
^13 https://indieweb.org/portfolio
^14 https://tantek.com/2023/001/t1/own-your-notes
^15 https://indieweb.org/posts#Types_of_Posts
^16 https://indieweb.org/responses
^17 https://chat.indieweb.org/
✏️ New Post: A few days ago @matuzo kindly pointed out to me that I haven't been writing a lot lately. I was shocked and launched an immediate investigation.
Here's why I don't write, and why my reasons are probably bullshit.
https://mxb.dev/blog/seven-reasons-why-i-dont-write/ #writing #blog #IndieWeb
Good morning everybody and welcome to Sunday. I'm feeling very rested after Shabbat and ready to take on the week.
Also on:When is there going to be another #IndieWeb NYC meetup?
Drafting something on what a “pure” indieweb web – i.e. with just blogs for writing and RSS for reading and discovery, no social media – would look like. While it’s easy to set up a blog with a domain, it’s still a barrier compared to tweeting. Who wouldn’t be involved? And what would you gain?
🏷 #indieweb
https://www.thisdaysportion.com/notes/a-pure-indieweb
I need to quote the toot. I always liked the saying “back to basics”. Regarding social media platforms, back to basics means for me back to the open web, the web that we own. The #indieweb.
https://strangeobject.space/@esther/109744339967280158
I looked at a few videos to understand how to create a custom block pattern to hold my RSVP webmention. You can do this “from scratch” or use a plugin. I would like to do this from scratch but am not sure if I can maintain it. The steps ... https://tmichellemoore.com/?p=152430
Oops, I missed yesterday. :-)
Day 19 of 100 #100DaysofIndieWeb, #IndieWeb, #ProjectJournal, #WordPress #CustomBlockPattern
January is almost over. Micro.blog has been much more stable after the few glitches we had in November as Mastodon was blowing up. We’ve had ActivityPub support since 2018, but only needed to learn how to actually scale it recently. Progress.
~ #webrings watch ~
Posting a new way to connect with the indie web every day!
Day #5: The Claw Webring
https://whitep4nth3r.com/
Truly a labour of love, whitep4nth3r's #webring is a professional, yet underappreciated work-of-art. Go show her, & it, some love.
More particular questions about this scenario…
- what’s the current best practice for what, back in the day, would have been imagemaps? Is it some kind of canvas / Svg combo?
- is getting going with an ssg like #11ty a good fit?
- node.js, p5js, three.js… where is the interesting action at the mo?
Are there any niche sitebuilding tools that might help?
And who is doing good work with the weird web at the moment?
(Five years away = lifetime.)
Little victories: swapped out the fonts on my site so they don't feel as all over the place stylistically, and added a fade-in on scroll to gallery images. And loading is a touch better on the 2022 and 2023 galleries. :'D
Enjoy my 2022 gallery! Going to be updating the older galleries with these tweaks when I get the chance.