Marty McGuire martymcgui.re

Unblocking your blogging, Twitter login troubles, and planning IndieWebCamp Nuremburg. It’s your < 10min update on the #IndieWeb community!

This Week in the IndieWeb audio edition for April 15th - 21st, 2023.

https://martymcgui.re/2023/04/22/this-week-in-the-indieweb-audio-edition--april-15th---21st-2023/
Manton Reece www.manton.org

Matt Baer blogs about the future of Write.as and WriteFreely — taking features that are currently separate products and integrating them into more of a suite:

At this point, I don’t think it makes sense for our self-hosted product to be chopped up into multiple components like our hosted tools are. Instead, I want to bring all those tools into a single application in WriteFreely.

Remark.as will also get fediverse replies. Sounds like a good direction.
#indieweb indieweb.social/tags/indieweb

Unblocking your blogging, Twitter login troubles, and planning IndieWebCamp Nuremburg. It’s your < 10min update on the #IndieWeb community!


This Week in the IndieWeb audio edition for April 15th - 21st, 2023.


https://martymcgui.re/2023/04/22/this-week-in-the-indieweb-audio-edition--april-15th---21st-2023/
Marty McGuire martymcgui.re

This Week in the IndieWeb Audio Edition • April 15th - 21st, 2023

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#podcast #IndieWeb #this-week-indieweb-podcast
#indieweb mastodon.social/tags/indieweb
I’d like to hear from people who have De-Googled their lives. I’ve managed to cut ties with Facebook a few years ago (no Instagram, but my wife still uses it); I cut out Twitter full time back in November if I recall correctly. Google is next.

I still use search, maps, and to a much lesser extent, Gmail. I used Google Drive but I won’t be sad about losing that since I have a local (Nextcloud) alternative. #google #indieweb
@john_fisherman mastodon.social/@john_fisherman

@pixeline @sophie @nickautomatic @btconf @tantek.com hear, hear!

I have started linking #btconf folks on my website, as promised:

https://fredrocha.net/like-minded/#btconf-sites

I also laid out some thoughts on what happens once you roll your own website into the wild:

https://fredrocha.net/2023/04/21/build-your-own-website-and-they-will-not-come/

If we dream together, it's doable.

#indieweb #curation #discoverability
#indieweb mastodon.social/tags/indieweb

Creating your own website, own your data and display the things you’re into under your domain. When online, be a creator, not a consumer.

I’m all in for this mantra, but this realization stops short of a painful, cold truth; your content is probably going to be ignored. It sucks to keep sharing your content and having no one contribute and add their own opinions / takes to yours. I know because I’ve been doing this for a decade now, ah!

I posed this problem to Sophie Koonin at the closing get-together at Beyond Tellerrand conference in Düsseldorf, and she was kind enough to share some of her ideas on this. She mentioned POSSEing your content (ie, posting it on your own website and then sharing it on all the platforms), mentioned webrings and personalsit.es, but also agreed none of this will guarantee that a continued, healthy conversation will keep happening at your own personal website. Your amazingly quirky content and your exciting ideas are prone to be forever ignored by the wider web.

I’ll link to yours if you link to mine

Lots of the attendees at #BTConf are interested, on top of interesting. Lots of them have personal websites, and are kind enough to link to each other’s websites, given the chance and the right push. So I decided to stir the exchanges a bit, and posted a request for URLs:

(https://mastodon.social/@john_fisherman/110224246899618915)

And with this, personal sites started pinging. And I started listing them on this page. Send me your personal URL (RSS feed included, if you have it), my touch points are here. Or by simply commenting on this post.

Proposal for a man-machine powered protocol

Tantek was kind enough to hop on the previous Mastodon post and lay out some indie web approaches and technologies that can help discoverability of your content. But this ultimately is a human problem as well, recommendations need to come with social validation lest they effectively be taken into account. Ie, I am much more likely to read / follow / comment someone’s content if I have met this person or if someone recommended them to me. People belonging to a MAFIA will float up much quicker than a new kid on the block trying to get noticed. This happens across industries, because all industries are operated and run by humans.

We need an approach that not only relies on Web Mentions, ActivityPub, POSSIE, etc, but also stems from veterans and well-known (linked) people on the web linking newcomers, or simply someone who hasn’t been able to establish an online presence yet. I am not sure how this would work in practice — this is a call for discussion — but already have a name for it: AIFAM. It’s MAFIA mirrored, meaning it should work as an anti-MAFIA, a selfless and democratizing sharing of influence online. It’s pronounced “Hey, Fam! 👋”.

Discuss!

#btconf #indieweb

https://fredrocha.net/2023/04/21/build-your-own-website-and-they-will-not-come/
@voxpelli mastodon.social/@voxpelli

For this weeks #FollowFriday I want to suggest:

Follow hashtags here on Mastodon!

Eg: #webmention or #IndieWeb

Perhaps #nodejs or #rp2040

A great way to find new people and great posts.

Also: Remember to add hashtags and to use camel case / pascal case when doing so!
@matthiasott mastodon.social/@matthiasott

Now, this is super interesting. Last night, I asked how people display #Webmentions on their (#IndieWeb) sites. I already got a few really good answers, including e.g. the sites of @sia, @nhoizey, and @andy. 🙏

But now, I want more. 😁 And I’ll write a summary (with details), of course.

Have you seen a Webmention implementation with great UX or anything that looks like a great best practice? LMK below!

👇
Manton Reece www.manton.org

Tantek Çelik blogs about yesterday’s The Verge article on ActivityPub, underscoring some of the IndieWeb principles that are covered. There’s really a lot in there and I’m glad to see the article getting so much attention. Thanks @pierce@mas.to!
#indieweb mastodon.social/tags/indieweb

🔖 https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/20/23689570/activitypub-protocol-standard-social-network

#activitypub #indieweb #mastodon

https://beko.famkos.net/2023/04/21/15628507/
www.theverge.com/2023/4/20/23689570/activitypub-protocol-standard-social-network
Jeremy Keith adactio.com

ActivityPub is the next big thing in social networks - The Verge

After nearly two decades of fighting for this vision of the internet, the people who believed in federation feel like they’re finally going to win. The change they imagine still requires a lot of user education — 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.
#activitypub #fediverse #mastodon #twitter #portable #social #networks #portability #indieweb #protocols #standards
@liztai hachyderm.io/@liztai

I am really impatient for #SocialMedia to become more like email and for all walled gardens to just connect with one another already.

😐

#IndieWeb #ActivityPub
Tantek Çelik tantek.com
In https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/20/23689570/activitypub-protocol-standard-social-network, author @pierce@mas.to does an excellent job covering a broad range of #ActivityPub related updates, and goes beyond the usual #Mastodon focus to describe numerous implementations.

I was very happy to see that he also clearly communicated several #IndieWeb principles¹, practices, goals, and reasons why². Like this quote:

 “But the advice you’ll hear from most people in this space is this: own your own domain. Don’t be john@/mastodon.social or anna@/facebook.com. Have a space that is yours, that belongs to you, a username and identity that can’t disappear just because a company goes out of business or sells to a megalomaniac.”

and this:

 “It’s [your own domain is] your YouTube channel name and your TikTok username and your Instagram handle and your phone number and your Twitter @, all in one name.”

Great interviews with @stevetex@mozilla.social, @mike@flipboard.social, @dustycloud.org (@cwebber@octodon.social), @evanp.me (@evan@cosocial.ca), @anildash.com (@anildash@me.dm), @coachtony@me.dm, and @manton.org.

As Manton said in the article:

 “If you solve identity with domain names, it makes things easier because it fits the way the web has been for 20 years,”

Pierce also noted:

 “you might soon be able to turn your personal website into your entire social identity online”
 
Already can.

I replied to Pierce’s post³ about his article noting this⁴, from #federating directly from my website for the past ~6 months⁵, to over a decade of using it as my social identity with the POSSE method⁶ with various #socialMedia silos.

It’s important enough that I’ll repeat part of Pierce’s quote at the top:

 “own your own domain. Don’t be john@/mastodon.social or anna@/facebook.com. Have a space that is yours”
 
He gets it. Don’t be someone at someone else’s server.

Big Chad or Little Chad’s garages⁷ are social media stepping stones towards owning your own domain and IndieWeb presence.

We’re here when you’re ready to take that next step: https://chat.indieweb.org/


This is day 38 of #100DaysOfIndieWeb. #100Days

← Day 37: https://tantek.com/2023/109/t2/years-ago-first-federated-indieweb-thread
→ 🔮


¹ https://indieweb.org/principles
² https://indieweb.org/why
³ https://mas.to/@pierce/110231624819547202
⁴ https://tantek.com/2023/110/t1/
⁵ https://tantek.com/2022/301/t1/twittermigration-bridgyfed-mastodon-indieweb
⁶ https://indieweb.org/POSSE
⁷ https://tantek.com/2023/001/t1/own-your-notes
#ActivityPub #Mastodon #IndieWeb #federating #socialMedia #100DaysOfIndieWeb #100Days
mas.to/@pierce/110231624819547202
Tantek Çelik tantek.com
@pierce@mas.to nice broad coverage in https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/20/23689570/activitypub-protocol-standard-social-network
Especially your #IndieWeb encouragements to:

 “own your own domain”

 “Have a space that is yours, that belongs to you, a username and identity that can’t disappear just because a company goes out of business or sells to a megalomaniac.”

As you pointed out, the “WordPress plug-in for ActivityPub” enables this today for people who use WordPress for their site.

One minor correction. You said:

 “… you might soon be able to turn your personal website into your entire social identity online”

Always have been.

About six months ago I setup my personal website https://tantek.com/ as my #fediverse address @tantek.com¹. No need for a separate Mastodon account on someone else’s instance.²

This transmission is coming to you³ … from my personal website.

For 13+ years I’ve been using my site as my social identity⁴, using POSSE (before we called it that) to syndicate & distribute my posts to Twitter*, eventually to Facebook*, Flickr, GitHub, and now #federating directly with #ActivityPub supporting servers & services.

*Until they (Facebook, Twitter) dropped or disabled API access, and I haven't posted there since.

As you said:

 “It’s [your own domain is] your YouTube channel name and your TikTok username and your Instagram handle and your phone number and your Twitter @, all in one name”

https://tantek.com/contact is my “phone number”, it’s the 💬 on the top left on my home page.

The web is already “the underlying infrastructure of the social web”.

"your own domain" can already be “your identity for everything”.

Lots more on this at https://indieweb.org/

¹ https://tantek.com/2022/301/t1/twittermigration-bridgyfed-mastodon-indieweb
² https://tantek.com/2023/001/t1/own-your-notes
³ https://youtu.be/ScJvQhWL7Lg?t=24
⁴ https://tantek.com/2010/001/t1/declaring-independence-building-it
#IndieWeb #fediverse #federating #ActivityPub
#indieweb indieweb.social/tags/indieweb
In https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/20/23689570/activitypub-protocol-standard-social-network, author @pierce@mas.to does an excellent job covering a broad range of #ActivityPub related updates, and goes beyond the usual #Mastodon focus to describe numerous implementations.

I was very happy to see that he also clearly communicated several #IndieWeb principles¹, practices, goals, and reasons why². Like this quote:

 “But the advice you’ll hear from most people in this space is this: own your own domain. Don’t be john@/mastodon.social or anna@/facebook.com. Have a space that is yours, that belongs to you, a username and identity that can’t disappear just because a company goes out of business or sells to a megalomaniac.”

and this:

 “It’s [your own domain is] your YouTube channel name and your TikTok username and your Instagram handle and your phone number and your Twitter @, all in one name.”

Great interviews with @stevetex@mozilla.social, @mike@flipboard.social, @dustycloud.org (@cwebber@octodon.social), @evanp.me (@evan@cosocial.ca), @anildash.com (@anildash@me.dm), @coachtony@me.dm, and @manton.org (@manton@manton.org).

As Manton said in the article:

 “If you solve identity with domain names, it makes things easier because it fits the way the web has been for 20 years,”

Pierce also noted:

 “you might soon be able to turn your personal website into your entire social identity online”
 
Already can.

I replied to Pierce’s post³ about his article noting this⁴, from #federating directly from my website for the past ~6 months⁵, to over a decade of using it as my social identity with the POSSE method⁶ with various #socialMedia silos.

It’s important enough that I’ll repeat part of Pierce’s quote at the top:

 “own your own domain. Don’t be john@/mastodon.social or anna@/facebook.com. Have a space that is yours”
 
He gets it. Don’t be someone at someone else’s server.

Big Chad or Little Chad’s garages⁷ are social media stepping stones towards owning your own domain and IndieWeb presence.

We’re here when you’re ready to take that next step: https://chat.indieweb.org/


This is day 38 of #100DaysOfIndieWeb. #100Days

← Day 37: https://tantek.com/2023/109/t2/years-ago-first-federated-indieweb-thread
→ 🔮


¹ https://indieweb.org/principles
² https://indieweb.org/why
³ https://mas.to/@pierce/110231624819547202
⁴ https://tantek.com/2023/110/t1/
⁵ https://tantek.com/2022/301/t1/twittermigration-bridgyfed-mastodon-indieweb
⁶ https://indieweb.org/POSSE
⁷ https://tantek.com/2023/001/t1/own-your-notes
@mikegrindle indieweb.social/@mikegrindle

“Convenience is one of those things you pay interest on. And when the price is as valuable as our attention, it’s rarely worth the cost”

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, it’s quite exciting to see this little blog of mine starting to actually take shape now.

#indieweb #neocities #linux #google #twitter #SmallWeb

https://mikegrindle.com/posts/autonomy
Manton Reece www.manton.org

The Verge has a long article by David Pierce today about ActivityPub. The quote from me about domain names doesn’t come across quite how I intended it… Yes, domain names are hard, but we need to make them much easier to deal with because they’re actually great.
@andrwcnln mastodon.scot/@andrwcnln

new blog post! 🧑‍💻

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
@m2m indieweb.social/@m2m

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

https://minutestomidnight.co.uk/blog/personal-manifesto/