Nobody cares about your blog.

I just don’t care what you think, here’s my post and you can do nothing about it :)

#blogs #blogging #writing #sharing #personal #publishing #indieweb

because of an open letter 50 jailed women sent us today for sharing i want to reflect further on how hard is to get messages trough

they wrote it by hand, then sent it to a contact i assume by letter, the i got an instagram message and got the pdf after and transcribed it. the news will be out soon, but i want to reflect on something else related to this

bc i want people to post their own content online in a way, i think people should be able to tell stories how they want to

i was thinking on what the best app may be overall and...

#tumblr is really ok for posting content
but it doesnt allow for #sound uploads :(((( at least, on mobile... but it has rss! and broader size limits than any fediverse instances i know about...

my thing is, why is it so hard to publish multimedia content online?

i know servers cost a lot, and thats why mastodon is so restricted with this.

but why cant we just post any kind of content? like sound, text, pdf archives, video, links and fotos is the basic. most social media allowo only one at a time. its so fristrating. especially trying to do grassroots journalism with activists. its impossible to get them to publish content in any way thats #open, has an rss feed and is readable by other #socials. meaning, everyone is on facebook getting 1 like each. i cant sleep.

like this may seem non poetical but really, we dont solve the technical side then we are stuck forever in empty echo chambers

we need astral rss and federation to be able to even start to compete with major media. its on us to federate everything, no matter the cost. we need to reach people somehow, enter through their phones and get these messages through, and make them forget the tv.

i really like
https://vozesdedentro.noblogs.org

thei're a support group for people who have been jailed and help them get their letters through.

i've syndicated their blog to our own news portal, and its now being re-re-shared on anrachist federation which to me is already a really good situation. an example of how i think rss is really cool

#indymedia
#acitvitypub
#indieweb
#rss
#journalism

"[...] when websites were more like a small collection of winding side-streets and flea markets. Today, it's all shopping malls, hostile pedestrians, and corporate buildings."

https://bt.ht/dump

#digitalgarden #indieweb

Thinking about creating a Microsub server, I remembered that my new shiny Postgres backend can easily answer if I already left a like on a post or not:

kittybox=# CREATE INDEX likes ON kittybox.mf2_json USING GIN ((mf2['properties']['like-of']));
CREATE INDEX
kittybox=# EXPLAIN SELECT EXISTS (SELECT uid FROM kittybox.mf2_json WHERE mf2['properties']['like-of'] ? 'https://aaronparecki.com/2018/12/25/17/');
                                                        QUERY PLAN                                                        
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Result  (cost=11.28..11.29 rows=1 width=1)
   InitPlan 1 (returns $0)
     ->  Bitmap Heap Scan on mf2_json  (cost=8.09..43.20 rows=11 width=0)
           Recheck Cond: (mf2['properties'::text]['like-of'::text] ? 'https://aaronparecki.com/2018/12/25/17/'::text)
           ->  Bitmap Index Scan on likes  (cost=0.00..8.08 rows=11 width=0)
                 Index Cond: (mf2['properties'::text]['like-of'::text] ? 'https://aaronparecki.com/2018/12/25/17/'::text)
(6 rows)

Nice. Indexes are awesome.

#Kittybox #PostgreSQL #Microsub

Build a website in an hour. And maybe move your Google Domains? It’s your < 10min update on the #IndieWeb community!

This Week in the IndieWeb audio edition for July 22nd - 28th, 2023. https://martymcgui.re/2023/07/29/this-week-in-the-indieweb-audio-edition--july-22nd---28th-2023/

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

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

Any #matrix network hosts on the #fediverse interested in testing Commune?

https://writing.exchange/@erlend/110712778752844998

Commune is an extension of Matrix to make rooms web-public and threads-enabled. Layered unobtrusively on top of your existing Synapse server; most of the setup can be left up to us.

We’d like to eventually be a plug-and-play extension for any Matrix network, including Matrix.org 🌐

..so as a first step, we wanna work on interop with the smaller #IndieWeb networks as our earliest adopters.

Hey folks! Here’s an (under construction) early-look at an IndieWeb notes (micro-blog / short-form content) feature on my site. Working on a writeup (eventually) to walk through how/why it was made. Appreciate any interim feedback though!

https://indieweb.org/note #indieweb

@anirvan I'm using my own website, where I post long form blog posts as well as small posts via #micropub.
I don't really post much directly, mostly replies to other peoples posts via #webmention.

#indieweb

I'm already sold on the idea of having my own domain and website to own my online presence, and while supporting most of the #indieweb protocols or setting up a full-blown indie reader (e.g. syndicating my social interactions) looks like too much work for the kind of use I'd give it, building a plain old #rss reader, tailored to my preferences suddenly looks like a worthwhile and fun project to me.

More on the ActivityPub API project

Learning about the #indieweb movement has been one of the most interesting byproducts of joining Mastodon earlier this year. I particularly liked this talk transcript by Jamie Tanna as an introduction to the topic:

https://www.jvt.me/posts/2019/10/20/indieweb-talk/

I miss having a website (actually, having one "under construction" for almost a decade now) and seeing all these great #IndieWeb personal sites makes want to finish my own even more:

https://mastodon.social/@matthiasott/110782091549413231

#decentralization is growing

We have #mastodon, #pleroma and more to replace apps like Twitter, and honestly the #fediverse takes us 2 steps further than Twitter ever could.

Then #peertube is slowly providing an alternative to YouTube. It's hard to rival YouTube's library, not the features.

And then #matrix is slowly growing to be something capable of (one day) replacing #discord.

I think the #indieweb is going to be big.

This is part of a bigger question I have about the accessibility of the #indieweb. It takes people to create a "people-focused" web -- who are we leaving behind because they don't have the necessary technical skills? How do we balance a "safe" alternative to the corporate web while maintaining the accessibility necessary for community?

Gatekept environments online have the same benefits *and* consequences of irl gated communities, right? Is that something we can / should change?

3/3 for now...

Alright, let’s do another round! 😎

✨ What’s your favorite personal website and why? ✨

(Feel free to add your own site after mentioning someone else’s – but posting ONLY your site is cheating! 😉)

#websites #IndieWeb #personalsites

Hello, everyone! :ameowcomfywave:

I go by Lysianthus online. I'm a university student studying to be a materials scientist/engineer. I'm also a hobbyist developer/coder and a big fan of personal websites. I like #reading, #writing (mostly #fanfiction), #learning new things, and lurking in #fandom spaces.

My posts will be a mix of personal stuff and my hobbies + interests.

Nice to meet you all! :meowhearthug:

#introduction #introductions #personalwebsites #personalweb #indieweb #oldweb

Excellent Web 1 nostalgia piece by @lopatto

"In the old cyberpunk novels, the outside world itself rots as online becomes an endless spectacle you can vanish into. But if you look around, the world itself is still pretty vibrant, while the web seems to look like the set of Blade Runner."

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/22/23803538/google-facebook-myspace-internet-culture-web-dot-com-crash

#web1 #enshittification #indieweb

Watch Out, Fediverse Users: The FBI Can Seize a Mastodon Server

Reading about #IndieWeb — it is way more interesting and complicated than simple "reject platforms embrace self-hosting"