The best thing about being CEO of a successful social media platform is not needing to concern myself with larger Fediverse issues.
I'm the only user of this instance and my server farm bangs hard! (whilst having way less environmental impact than Meta's bullshit).
Whether or not folks from X come here does not affect company policy. If you're cool, we're cool. I'm up for chatting shit as much as the next person.
Long live mxtthxw.art
As always, you can find a less substack-y version of this post on my website: https://dreamindani.com/posts/bookmark-beat-ep17/ #IndieWeb
In this #BookmarkBeat š„, I talk about choosing to make space for yourself - including picking up new hobbies (like film photography šø)
https://open.substack.com/pub/bookmarkbeat/p/bookmark-beat-ep-17?r=1yus&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Plus, a reflection on how (and why) we connect with other people⦠with plenty of bookmarks along the way!
š New post! "Build a Blogroll with Eleventy"
This one's for the #IndieWeb folks. Here's a step-by-step walkthrough of how I set up my new blogroll on my @eleventy site, featuring links to those blogs' latest posts, updated daily. Check it out and let me know what you think!
https://benmyers.dev/blog/eleventy-blogroll/
@stshank @TechDesk Somewhat problematic to track usage like this as eg āMassive surge in blog postingā wouldnāt be possible to say due to the distributed nature of the #blogosphere and Mastodon / #Fediverse / #IndieWeb is similarly distributed and as such hard to make such claims for
Not saying itās wrong, but itās a way of using the silo numbers and the silo narrative to discuss the success of alternative platforms that in themselves are not aiming to be silos
I might have to end up learning how to write #Wordpress plugins a lot sooner than initially anticipated. As a follower of the Norse Deities and beings, one of the little extra pages I want on my site is a sort of a rune of the day thing, where for each day,the page will shuffle the deck at random. #indieweb #personalsite #innovation #WP #stupidplugins
Iāll be joining FediForum today. It starts in about half an hour. Mostly will lurk today, but looking forward to hearing what people are working on and what to solve next in the fediverse. Then tomorrow Iāll show off a little of Micro.blog.
In my #IndieWeb quest, I realised that installing the ClassicComerse plugin crashes my whole database/back end. I will keep you all posted!
I need to get my š© sorted and get my #indieweb blog back on track. The venerable GoBlog repo is probably eleventy-billion commits ahead of my instance right now.
Do I patch the place up or burn it down and start all over againā¦.
š¤ what to do, what to doā¦.
I really should reach out to @kandr3s once again since heās made a ton of improvements to his site.
Also goes without saying to reach out to @en the creator of the ... https://starrwulfe.xyz/notes/2023-09-19-oeqgj
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I donāt run analytics on this website. I donāt care which articles you read, I donāt care if you read them. I donāt care about which post is the most read or the most clicked. I donāt A/B test, I donāt try to overthink my content.
Same!
Still pretty cool that [Feed Reader](https://wordpress.org/plugins/feed-reader/) (with a little help from IndieBlocks) can spit out a correctly microformatted bookmark post/note, just like that.
https://jan.boddez.net/notes/0830926a21
https://xray.p3k.app/parse?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjan.boddez.net%2Fnotes%2F0830926a21&pretty=true
The second FediForum is this Wednesday and Thursday! Two half days. Iāll be doing a quick demo of how Micro.blog fits in with the fediverse, including recent Pixelfed integration.
Can any #IndieWeb experts point me in the right direction? Using the Post Kinds plugin for #WordPress I'd like to automatically update my website with books I read/check out of the library since I rarely buy books these days and just use the library. Is there a way I can automate this process? Like authenticate my Hoopla/Libby account and then it fetches my shelves every week or similar and just updates my read post kind? Also,
I'm looking to move my wish list to my website so people wouldn't have to go to third party services to browse my wish list. Any plugins/services that can do this with WordPress?
The books plugins are all about publishing books on my website rather than tracking reading, at least, from what I can see in the WP directory.
First blogpost is up! I share my impressions from OSCAL 2023, how I came about building this blog, and some plans for what's to come. check it out