Having spent a fair amount of time developing for all of them, my experience has been that most proprietary social network (โ€œsiloโ€) APIs are on the easy/low effort end of the spectrum, followed closely by the Bluesky API, webmention + microformats2, and Nostr, then a big jump up to ActivityPub at above average, then AT Protocol at the high end.

They all differ in many important ways beyond development effort, of course. Personally, Iโ€™m most excited about webmention + mf2, ATProto, and then ActivityPub, for all the obvious reasons. Still though.

(If not for all the NIPs, Nostr would be the easiest of all. Developing for Nostr is pretty simple, but the NIPs are so loose and terse and spread out that ramping up on them and grokking how they all fit together can feel chaotic, at least at first.)

I previously wrote about why you should start a #blog (https://shellsharks.com/you-should-blog). That piece is filled with solid reasons I still stand by today. But since that time, I've come to understand a more meaningful reason to have a website and as part of that site, some form of syndicated content (i.e. a blog). For most, "identity" on the web is tied to one, or fractured across a few, social media platform(s). Recent history has revealed the pitfalls of this approach. Enshittification, terrible management, or even platform collapse can result in catastrophic loss of your connections, communities, business income and more. So many refuse to leave Twitter (er... "X") because they're too invested, to leave would be to sacrifice one or more of these things. Why do we continue to feed these platforms that always fail, that always betray us, that violate our privacy, that never represent who we truly are? Having a website, a place that is yours, that you can design to your specification, share anything you want, how you want and make easily available to all is such an obvious solution and it really isn't that much harder than creating a (pick your social media platform of choice) account. There are a TON of services these days that make it dead simple to get up and running with a customizable site and start publishing. The beauty of this (blogging), is that you can syndicate however you'd like from there. So go ahead, share on Mastodon, or Threads, or wherever, but remember to link back to the true canonical representation on your site.

#indieweb #blogging

https://shellsharks.com/notes/2023/08/16/your-website-your-identity

RIP, looks like my #HomeServer is down for the day. Luckily my blog can still be found on #IPFS.

#IndieWeb
https://dweb.link/ipns/vzqk50.com

I'm a bit overwhelmed. There's nextcloudpi. Using that now. It's usually for singe-purpose machines, but they have a container as well. But I read it's being deprecated? Then there's Nextcloud AIO? For Enterprise?
What's the easiest way to go about that?
#nextcloud #docker #raspberrypi #indieweb

@hmans Could be that they are lazy fetching it or something

I was quite amazed to see issues like this be totally left to the implementers of #ActivityPub

Especially as #PubSubHubbub / #WebSub which #OStatus and other predecessors use (and the #IndieWeb still use) was specifically designed to avoid thundering herd problems that arise from a lot of subscribers all eagerly fetching content at once upon receiving a ping about new content

Obligatory #newinstance #introduction

Hi! I'm Stitch. I wear many hats and like many things but...
๐ŸŽผ #Musician/#AudioProducer
๐Ÿ’ป #Techie
๐Ÿ–‹๏ธ #Writer
๐Ÿ“ธ #Photographer
๐Ÿฆ‡ Probably #Goth
๐Ÿšซ News & Politics Abstinent
๐Ÿ”Š Voice of Harp in the Isfet Archives
๐Ÿฑ #Cats
๐Ÿ“ฑ #DigitalWellbeing #openweb #indieweb
๐Ÿญ #Industrialmusic, #EBM & ๐ŸŽน #Synthpop & adjacent genres
๐Ÿช #scifi
๐ŸŒŒ #Space
๐Ÿฐ Devon Scone-Eating Method Practitioner
Made of ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง with bits of ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช and splashes of ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ
(Potato-Europe)

Friends who have bookmarks messed up in folders, different notes apps... I have something for you! ๐Ÿณ

https://mooklett.com/mymind-the-personal-search-engine-you-have-hunted-for-years-is-here/

#blog #indieweb

IndieWeb discussion has left the Matrix and ChatGPT wants you to block it. Itโ€™s your < 10min update on the #IndieWeb community!

This Week in the IndieWeb audio edition for August 5th - 11th, 2023. https://martymcgui.re/2023/08/13/this-week-in-the-indieweb-audio-edition--august-5th---11th-2023/

This Week in the IndieWeb Audio Edition โ€ข August 5th - 11th, 2023

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

Iโ€™m following 300ish people on here and it still feels a bit TOO laid back. Who in the fediverse should I be following for The Good Shit a couple times per day? Indie web preferred #fediverse #indieweb

I love seeing these posts from Allison Seboldt about what it takes to run multiple SaaS products and be a completely independent developer!

https://allisonseboldt.com/june-2023/

#indiedev #indieweb #webdev #startups #saas

In relationship to that, though, what we need is an all-around client which supports both Fediverse, with emphasis on the AP API rather than a specific software's API, as well as the #Indieweb spec; webmention, post kinds, and what not. That's one of my project ideas, and it will be available via the #dotnet ecosystem if I can get existing libraries to behave with .NET core. One of the first experiments I want to run once I get accomplished as adding references and what not to projects, is compiling the P3K PHP library under .NET Core. That way .NET devs don't need a separate library, and PHP can be used in a scenario which is right now, more edge case, than not.

@dmje kinda, itโ€™s possible to share a link from WP and have replies here be imported to WP. But not like Disqus. Look up #IndieWeb for more info.

I would love it when a lot of people that have perfect content just have a blog... a simple one with links and not feed X or other closed platforms day by day. But one can dream about the #indieweb

How to verify your Threads account using your Mastodon profile

Just signed up for Album Whale. Itโ€™s fun way to keep track your music. Check out my album list, Listening toโ€ฆ ๐ŸŽง , on Album Whale! https://albumwhale.com/escribitionist/listening-to #music #indieweb

When you post something about the #Indieweb only to realize that you're inside of the wrong IRC channel; right server,but wrong channel. Gods of Asgard, I'm tired.

2 new blog posts in 2 days? Wooow.

New blog post is up to tell the world that I'm live on #IPFS

#IndieWeb
https://www.vzqk50.com/blog/live-on-ipfs/

I've reintegrated webmentions into owl-blog. It only supports incoming webmentions at the moment and is quiet limited. Webmentions will only been shown as a link on the bottom of entries.

#webmention #indieweb

https://blog.libove.org/posts/e2e791b4-0624-4b98-9dde-c758108dda17/