One core difference between the fediverse and the AT Protocol seems to be that AT decouples many key building blocks – identity, moderation, ranking algorithms, even your own data to some degree – from your server. The fediverse, on the other hand, ties them all to your server and sees that as a desirable feature.

The fediverse says, choose a server that you identify with as an individual, with admins who moderate according to your values, and a local timeline that you like reading.

The AT Protocol, on the other hand says sure, choose all of those, but independently from your server, and keep those choices if/when you migrate to a new server.

Interestingly, I don’t think much of this is really driven by ActivityPub itself except identity. Third party AP moderation tools could easily be built, and probably have been. Same with clients that rank your feed with custom algorithms. This seems like more of a cultural difference, a difference of values and philosophy about how social networking should work.

I love how most of my fedi collaborations end up with a Matrix space, instead of a Slack or Discord.

Open protocols FTW ✨

#IndieWeb #OpenSource #OpenWeb #Matrix

Does anyone know of a tool or method to export an old Livejournal blog?

Some of my oldest journal entries are still hosted there and I’d really like to get them out before I can’t.

Currently the site only allows you to export one month of posts at a time and that doesn’t include comments.

I see a package on GitHub but I’m not a developer so that’s no good to me. Appreciate any tips.

#indieweb #blog #blogger #blogging #livejournal #activitypub #journal #indiedev #indieauthor #micropub

@andrewhoyer I'm getting involved with a new project at my day job, learning to play the #piano in my mid-forties, working on a new #scifi novel, and making my static website my compatible with #indieweb tech.

I still haven't implemented outgoing #webmentions yet. Shouldn't be that hard, though.

In April I wrote my third unique cipher, the PentaBit Cipher. This is my first keyed cipher, and my first cipher capable of encoding alphanumeric plaintexts! You read about it, and try it out, over on my site.

#IndieWeb #cryptography #encoding #encryption
https://www.vzqk50.com/projects/pentabit/

I write a blog post to help you implement Webmention on your website. I do not use JavaScript framework or anything like that in that blog post.

Most of the code snippets are HTML. JavaScript code snippet exists to tell you how to get the JSON data of the mentions that you already got.

#webmention #indieweb
https://vanzasetia.site/blog/beginner-guides-for-applying-webmention/

This page about Tech Independence by Derek Sivers is great. It’s very “indieweb-ish” and has lots of great tips to limit your big tech dependance. He goes a bit more into detail on this episode of the Tim Ferris Podcast.

My blog isn't showing up on the fediverse anymore and I can't understand why 🤦🏽 I disabled Yoast since I think that might have caused issue, as well ad uninstalled/re-installed the activitypub plugin

#activitypub #indieweb #troubleshooting

My Open Hardware Summit 2023 badge

#open hardware summit #open source #ohs2023 #hardware #badge

Moving Mastodon posts, valuing venues, and the dangers of dependencies. It’s your < 10min update on the #IndieWeb community!

This Week in the IndieWeb audio edition for April 22nd - 28th, 2023. https://martymcgui.re/2023/04/30/this-week-in-the-indieweb-audio-edition--april-22nd---28th-2023/

This Week in the IndieWeb Audio Edition • April 22nd - 28th, 2023

#podcast #IndieWeb #this-week-indieweb-podcast

Moving Mastodon posts, valuing venues, and the dangers of dependencies. It’s your < 10min update on the #IndieWeb community!


This Week in the IndieWeb audio edition for April 22nd - 28th, 2023.
https://martymcgui.re/2023/04/30/this-week-in-the-indieweb-audio-edition--april-22nd---28th-2023/

Is there an equivalent of masto.host for pixelfed instances? That'd be amazing! #pixelfed #fediverse #selfhost #indieweb

@tchambers

As a member of the indieweb.social instance who hasn’t got a clue how to #code or #hack beyond a few html tweaks, I am constantly in awe of the “builder” vibe here (on #indieweb, on #Mastodon, on the #Fediverse). Everyone be like, “Hey, I built this over here!” And “Hey, I can connect that to this over there!” And “Yo, look what I did on top of all of that!” And none of it is for the purpose of raking in bucks or controlling an empire.

Planning to refresh /work on my website, looking for some inspiration:

Is there any personal site you have in mind where employment/freelance/OSS info and/or projects are nicely combined and presented on a single page?

#askfedi #indieweb #personalwebsites

Self-promo

New blog post! On not using analytics cookies any more

#blogging #indieweb

http://www.symbolicforest.com/blog/2023/04/30/no-more-cookies/

Getting started with Bluesky XRPC

Emerging thoughts:

What #Bluesky developers need to focus on: (and may be, I hope) actual Federation and adding clarity on how moderation, blocking, labeling really work. Dramatic upgrades needed and may be in the works.

What #Fediverse developers need to be doing: dramatically upping UX and onboarding. Good things in the works.

What #Indieweb and Fedi developers need to be doing: building software bridges between those two protocols & relays to handle AP-ATprotocol two way traffic at scale.

🆕 ANDROID APP

A recently updated application (which used to be called indigenous) is now called indiepass and is developed by Mark Sutherland @marksuth.
The application is suitable for #indieweb #mastodon #pleroma and #pixelfed. 😊

🌍 https://marksuth.dev/
🌍 https://indieweb.org/IndiePass#Android
🌍 PlayStore

#app #apps #androidapp #androidapps #client #clients #mastodonapp #mastodonapps #indiepass #pleromapp

My latest blog post is up on begin.com/blog. I'm happy with the Enhance plugin I wrote to syndicate an RSS feed to multiple targets. Mastodon, Twitter and Dev.to for now with more planned.

It works seamlessly with our Enhance Blog template, but you can also deploy it as a stand-alone app. Feel free to reach out to me with questions and feature requests.

#enhance #indieweb #posse

https://begin.com/blog/posts/2023-04-28-supporting-publish-own-site-syndicate-elsewhere