After nearly two decades of fighting for this vision of the internet, the people who believed in federation feel like theyāre finally going to win. The change they imagine still requires a lot of user education ā and a lot of work to make this stuff work for users. But the fundamental shift, from platforms to protocols, appears to have momentum in a way it never has before.
I am really impatient for #SocialMedia to become more like email and for all walled gardens to just connect with one another already.
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āConvenience is one of those things you pay interest on. And when the price is as valuable as our attention, itās rarely worth the costā
Another #blog post up and some more thoughts about the digital world, the attention economy and the tools we use (and how they use us in return)
On a side note, itās quite exciting to see this little blog of mine starting to actually take shape now.
The Verge has a long article by David Pierce today about ActivityPub. The quote from me about domain names doesnāt come across quite how I intended it⦠Yes, domain names are hard, but we need to make them much easier to deal with because theyāre actually great.
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this one is a little til on running python, via cron, in a docker container, on a raspberry pi (and all the associated headaches)
https://andrewconl.in/til/running-python-in-cron-in-docker/
#selfhost #webdev #indieweb #blog #docker #python #raspberrypi
This might be the most important blog post I ever wrote. It's been a while since I wanted to publish some sort of personal manifesto on my site.
After I stopped promoting myself as if I were a brand, I needed to put my foot down and declare what I stand for, on the only place that's not going away: my personal website.
So, here it is. A personal manifesto, where I touch on these topics:
#MentalHealth
#Sustainability
#Technology
#SmallWeb
#IndieWeb
#SocialMedia
Is there a #fediverse variant that has implemented threads well?
I think this might be an underestimated feature. There's a cadence that the threaded microblog post created that is kind of a new mode of communication - even a new kind of format for thinking.
It's this format that allows us to share the hook of a thought, then unpack it. It facilitates collaboration on early ideas - including testing the soundness of those ideas.
š¢ Webmention Support in Enhance Blog Template
Our next step towards making it easier for folks to participate in the open and indie web is adding support for incoming and outgoing webmentions to the Enhance blog template.
by @macdonst
#enhance #blog #indieweb #webmentions
https://begin.com/blog/posts/2023-04-19-webmention-support-in-enhance-blog-template
We finished #btconf last night talking about the discoverability of personal websites with @sophie and @nickautomatic.
It turns out it's hard to be read, even if you have captivating and original content.
Reply to this post with your personal url and I'll link you on my website, https://fredrocha.net. Bonus points if you have an RSS feed link.
Let's start a @btconf webring!
Hoping that some day someone in the #cryptography community takes notice of my Apis Cipher. I know it's not "cryptographically secure", but I do believe it's novel and not without its merits. That said, my #crypto math skills aren't the strongest, so maybe I'm wrong. I would love to see, though, a thorough break down of where it's strong and where it's not.
https://www.vzqk50.com/projects/cipher/
#IndieWeb #encoding #encryption