One more website update before the end of 2023.

I added a blog roll page https://hamatti.org/blog/roll/ and a randomly picked blog from the roll on the sidebar on any of my blog main page or individual post (on wider screens).

For a future feature, I'd like to display the latest blog post from their RSS feeds but that will be a project for another day.

#IndieWeb #Blogroll #Blogging

@cwebber This line of thinking is why I still prefer #IndieWeb as the future of distributed social networking, and why I keep hoping IndieAuth + Ticket Auth (or something similar) goes somewhere to improve how we handle private/friends-only/limited-audience posts (which is the one thing really missing from the Atom/RSS ecosystem right now).

I'm on the "it's better than nothing" camp.

But maybe someone can enlighten me otherwise https://floss.social/@downey/111659178231168550

#Fediverse #IndieWeb #BigTech

Bluesky replies via Bridgy

:boost_love::fediverse: Should people seen as #Fediverse or #IndieWeb leaders be funded by #BigTech?

#poll #boostsAppreciated

Strong yes
Qualified yes
Qualified no
Strong no

📝 New Post: Relics Of The Web

https://flamedfury.com/posts/relics-of-the-web/

Tidying up a few pages I started writing a year ago and combined them into a blog post.

Let me know what you think...

#web #indieweb #blog #blogging

@evan Here’s my take, hope it helps?

https://github.com/benpate/sherlock

Sherlock is a #Golang library that assembles any data/metadata it can find on a URL (including #WebFinger, #RSS, #OpenGraph, and #IndieWeb #MicroFormats ) and returns an #ActivityStream back to its caller. There’s composable add-ons for caching and other custom rules.

Overall, mapping to ActivityStreams was pretty easy. Sherlock is the key component in #Emissary that helps it participate in many different social webs.

@J12t The #fediverse is just one side of the coin. But combined with the #indieweb movement and a lot more technical improvements there could be grow a true Social Web, where liberation and taking control by the users is not only a marketing phrase.

The weird, in-between time of year
*AKA, The Void, AKA, a show about nothing.*

Obligatory end of year blog post / round up / wrap up thing.

https://www.michaelgale.dev/blog/the-weird-inbetween-time-of-year

#blogging #indieweb #blog #newyear #audhd

A question for #IndieWeb / #Microformats people:

The "How to markup" section of https://indieweb.org/quotation suggests a <cite> element inside the <blockquote> which is ok, but would this work just as well:

<blockquote class="u-quotation-of h-cite" cite="https://www.example.org/a-cited-blog-post">
<p>The text I'm quoting from the blog post goes here…</p>
</blockquote>

I should tag #IndieWeb on this question I asked the other day: for local theme development purposes, is there a source of fake #Webmentions somewhere? I'm working on my laptop in a WordPress install via MAMP, so I can't use a service that sends test pings. There are plugins for test posts and comments, for example, but I can't find similar such for webmentions.

In Evan Prodromou’s list of big and small fediverse traits, I lean more to big, but I don’t agree with everything in the big list. As one example, I think billion-person servers would recreate many Facebook-like problems. Evan’s list is great for sparking discussion, though.

I wish someone would make a multi-account #Mastodon auto post #plugin for #Wordpress. I can't #federate my Wordpress site due to errors that have come up with my old #VPS so I gave up on it and went with a non VPS plan. I'd really like to post about different topics that are more relevant to other instances. A multi-account auto share plugin for Wordpress would be a really great alternative for those who struggle #federating their Wordpress #blogs.

#webdev #wordpressdev #smallweb #indieweb

It’s fun to watch how people are rediscovering the #smallweb - webrings, RSS, static sites, blogs and such.

Her’s some cool links:

neocities.org

omg.lol

https://sadgrl.online/

https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb#small-web-is-beautiful

#indieweb #web #web0

Big Fedi, Small Fedi

@jan Okay, now the one thing left is to get rid of the “reply context” and “post” only the `e-content`.

#indieweb #activitypub #wordpress

I’ll never stop blogging: it’s an itch I have to scratch – and I don’t care if it’s an outdated format | Simon Reynolds | The Guardian

It me:

I’d do this even if no one read it. Blogging, for me, is the perfect format. No restrictions when it comes to length or brevity: a post can be a considered and meticulously composed 3,000-word essay, or a spurted splat of speculation or whimsy. No rules about structure or consistency of tone. A blogpost can be half-baked and barely proved: I feel zero responsibility to “do my research” before pontificating. Purely for my own pleasure, I do often go deep. But it’s nearer the truth to say that some posts are outcomes of rambles across the archives of the internet, byproducts of the odd information trawled up and the lateral connections created.

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

I've just noticed that the untappd year in beer has been updating as I check in beers this week. I will have to update my post over the next couple of days

https://flamedfury.com/posts/my-year-in-beer-2023/

#beer #blog #indie #indieweb

Remember when #photography was about the #art of it, not clout-chasing or product-pushing? For example, in the late 2000s so many cool (not just meaning 'popular') photographers were on #Flickr. Then #Instagram came around in 2010 and #Facebook bought them out in 2012.

IMHO the mid-2000s was when #tech & online platforms started going downhill quick and tech #enshittification began to spread. I think the introduction of the #iPhone had a lot to do with it, not to mention the many tech acquisitions that have been happening ever since. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Anyway, the 'art' of photography feels lost now; pay-walled, plundered, copied, capitalized, and even censored. All of it beholden to whatever satisfies the venture capitalists, advertisers, and/or shareholders. Fuck all that. Let's take back the web. Let's take back tech. This is why the #Fediverse (including #pixelfed) and more broadly, concepts like #smalltech, #indieweb, #smallweb and #selfhosting etc gives me glimmers of hope.

#capitalism sucks.