📝 New Post: Monthly Recap December 2023
Amazing at how long these posts end up being 🔥
The draft of the book is in Ulysses, each of the 70+ chapters as sheets, and the web site is hosted on Micro.blog with a couple theme tweaks for the contents sidebar. I wrote a little Ruby script that will push all my changes from Markdown files back up to Micro.blog, via Micropub’s “update” JSON.
These images were all originally posted to my Instagram which are then backed up to my personal website, followable via RSS because my trust level in websites I don't control is low. #indieweb
I'm planning to participate in Indie Web Carnival (https://indieweb.org/indieweb-carnival) this year.
In short, each month a different person chooses a topic and people write blog posts about that topic and send them to the month's host who then collects all the participating posts in a roundup post.
This month is hosted by @accordionpolar and the theme is positive internalization.
https://foreverliketh.is/blog/indieweb-carnival-january-2024-positive-internalization/
There was a post on here that I saw a week or more ago, and meant to come back to but had to put my phone down and now it's lost.
It was about adding a page on your personal site of your favorite web links, to make a personal yahoo homepage kind of thing to prepare for the (ongoing) fall of usable Google search.
Anyone have the link handy?
#IndieWeb
Hi everyone, I finally published my personal site. There's not a ton of content, but it _is_ finally online. It works on mobile but the Director's Cut experience is on desktop.
It would mean a lot to me if someone took some time to look at it 
Inspired by a subtle but clear sign-of-the-times one-line disclaimer at the end of RFC9518’s Acknowledgments (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9518.html#appendix-A-4)
“No large language models were used in the production of this document.”
I have added a similar disclaimer to the footer of my homepage:
“No large language models were used in the production of this site.”
2023 was certainly a year that LLMs took off and stole the hypecycle from #metaverse and #blockchain before that.
Yet unlike those previous two, #LLMs are already having real impacts on the way people create (from emails to art), communicate (LLM chat apps), and work (2023 Writer’s Strike), fueling growing concerns about the authenticity of content, especially content from human authors.
I expect we will see more such disclaimers in the future.
For now, if you blog on your own site with words written by you not #ChatGPT or a similar tool, I encourage you to add a similar disclaimer, and then add your site as an example to the #IndieWeb wiki:
* https://indieweb.org/LLM#IndieWeb_Examples
#largeLanguageModel #LLM #generativeAI #AI
There is the related problem of, when you discover what seems to be an independent site written by a human, how do you know that human actually exists?
For now I’ll mention that XFN rel=met links, published (e.g. metrolls / met-rolls), aggregated, indexed, and queried, can solve that problem. This will be similar to how XFN rel=me links solved #distributed verification on the web (see https://tantek.com/2023/234/t1/threads-supports-indieweb-rel-me and posts it links to).
This is day 48 of #100DaysOfIndieWeb. #100Days
← Day 47: https://tantek.com/2023/365/t1/capture-first-edit-publish-later
→ 🔮
Post glossary:
blockchain
https://indieweb.org/blockchain
large language model / LLM
https://indieweb.org/large_language_model
metaverse
https://indieweb.org/metaverse
rel=me
https://indieweb.org/rel-me
rel=met
http://gmpg.org/xfn/11#met
XFN
https://gmpg.org/xfn/
Braindump timely thoughts & experiences into as many draft notes as it takes, while ideas & memories are fresh.
Collecting higher fidelity memories seems more important than editing past writings or finishing/polishing a post for publishing, which can be done at a later time.
Sometimes the passage of time helps provide insights and broader understandings that can help with writing more effective posts, from better summaries to narratives that help sense-making.
Bits of even this minor post sat for weeks, and only today did I add a summary and related thoughts.
Similarly, it makes sense to edit and publish small notes on a subject, without feeling compelled to turn them into a larger blog post, or a longer list of points.
This is a key advantage to publishing on your own #indieweb site, you decide on the granularity of your posts, small, medium or large, instead of being constrained, burdened, or pressured by any particular #socialMedia user interface, character count limitation, or audience expectation.
Like Twitter before it, even the default #Mastodon user interface has limitations, and the #fediverse itself as a whole has audience/cultural expectations (certainly quite a few articles have been written about that).
On your own site you decide if you want to publish a post to make one point, or mention a related point or two, or collect things into a list or longer article, or eventually all of the above.
On your own site you feel more free to prioritize and share what is on your mind, instead of feeling compelled to first respond to whatever topics are trending, or to whatever you happen to read in your algorithmic feed.
#writingAboutWriting
This is day 47 of #100DaysOfIndieWeb. #100Days
← Day 46: https://tantek.com/2023/296/t1/posse-syndicate-link-reply
→ Day 48: https://tantek.com/2023/365/t2/no-large-language-model-llm-used
Related:
* “More Thoughtful Reading & Writing on the Web” (https://tantek.com/2023/277/b1/thoughtful-reading-writing-web)
Post glossary:
algorithmic feed
https://indieweb.org/algorithmic_feed
article
https://indieweb.org/article
note
https://indieweb.org/note
post
https://indieweb.org/post
sense-making
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensemaking_(information_science)
social media
https://indieweb.org/social_media
Inspired by a subtle but clear sign-of-the-times one-line disclaimer at the end of RFC9518’s Acknowledgments (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9518.html#appendix-A-4)
“No large language models were used in the production of this document.”
I have added a similar disclaimer to the footer of my homepage:
“No large language models were used in the production of this site.”
2023 was certainly a year that LLMs took off and stole the hypecycle from #metaverse and #blockchain before that.
Yet unlike those previous two, #LLMs are already having real impacts on the way people create (from emails to art), communicate (LLM chat apps), and work (2023 Writer’s Strike), fueling growing concerns about the authenticity of content, especially content from human authors.
I expect we will see more such disclaimers in the future.
For now, if you blog on your own site with words written by you not #ChatGPT or a similar tool, I encourage you to add a similar disclaimer, and then add your site as an example to the #IndieWeb wiki:
* https://indieweb.org/LLM#IndieWeb_Examples
#largeLanguageModel #LLM #generativeAI #AI
There is the related problem of, when you discover what seems to be an independent site written by a human, how do you know that human actually exists?
For now I’ll mention that XFN rel=met links, published (e.g. metrolls / met-rolls), aggregated, indexed, and queried, can solve that problem. This will be similar to how XFN rel=me links solved #distributed verification on the web (see https://tantek.com/2023/234/t1/threads-supports-indieweb-rel-me and posts it links to).
This is day 48 of #100DaysOfIndieWeb. #100Days
← Day 47: https://tantek.com/2023/365/t1/capture-first-edit-publish-later
→ 🔮
Post glossary:
blockchain
https://indieweb.org/blockchain
large language model / LLM
https://indieweb.org/large_language_model
metaverse
https://indieweb.org/metaverse
rel=me
https://indieweb.org/rel-me
rel=met
http://gmpg.org/xfn/11#met
XFN
https://gmpg.org/xfn/
Braindump timely thoughts & experiences into as many draft notes as it takes, while ideas & memories are fresh.
Collecting higher fidelity memories seems more important than editing past writings or finishing/polishing a post for publishing, which can be done at a later time.
Sometimes the passage of time helps provide insights and broader understandings that can help with writing more effective posts, from better summaries to narratives that help sense-making.
Bits of even this minor post sat for weeks, and only today did I add a summary and related thoughts.
Similarly, it makes sense to edit and publish small notes on a subject, without feeling compelled to turn them into a larger blog post, or a longer list of points.
This is a key advantage to publishing on your own #indieweb site, you decide on the granularity of your posts, small, medium or large, instead of being constrained, burdened, or pressured by any particular #socialMedia user interface, character count limitation, or audience expectation.
Like Twitter before it, even the default #Mastodon user interface has limitations, and the #fediverse itself as a whole has audience/cultural expectations (certainly quite a few articles have been written about that).
On your own site you decide if you want to publish a post to make one point, or mention a related point or two, or collect things into a list or longer article, or eventually all of the above.
On your own site you feel more free to prioritize and share what is on your mind, instead of feeling compelled to first respond to whatever topics are trending, or to whatever you happen to read in your algorithmic feed.
#writingAboutWriting
This is day 47 of #100DaysOfIndieWeb. #100Days
← Day 46: https://tantek.com/2023/289/t1/bridgyfed-webmention-like-fediverse
→ 🔮
Related:
* “More Thoughtful Reading & Writing on the Web” (https://tantek.com/2023/277/b1/thoughtful-reading-writing-web)
Post glossary:
algorithmic feed
https://indieweb.org/algorithmic_feed
article
https://indieweb.org/article
note
https://indieweb.org/note
post
https://indieweb.org/post
sense-making
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensemaking_(information_science)
social media
https://indieweb.org/social_media
Guess I'll join in on #newyear ...
One thing I'm thankful for this year: Steve Huffman screwing up at Reddit. The 3rd-party debacle shut down the app I used, and I emerged from the dark hole in which I'd dwelt for ten years.
Blinking in the sudden light of the #indieweb I joined #Mastodon (and found y'all awesome people at Hachyderm in particular), picked my languishing blog out of the trashpile, and even wrote a couple of new bits.
It's been wild; let's hope for less online upheaval in 2024.
villasbc@mastodon.social -- yep, and there's the #indieweb movement you should check out to help you get started in making a "sociable blog" which I would love to subsctibe to.
@wawaxx -- drop your RSS feed when you're ready, I need good transit related podcasts to listen to at work!
Today is the 28th anniversary of creating my first webpage.
Yay, I wanted to log into my linkblog using IndieAuth but for some reason that’s not working anymore since the last update of the IndieAuth WordPress plugin. Guess that’s something to debug in the New Year then.
I don't know which was my most popular blog post for 2023 (because I removed all the analytics trackers in order to keep my focus on writing what I wanted instead of what was popular), but this is probably my personal favourite of my 34 blog posts from 2023:
Standalone but interconnected, independent but not isolated
https://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/standalone-but-interconnected
The People's Coalition of Tandy General MIDI Competition is accepting submissions! Look at this excellent web design and submit if you like:
New year, new blog: reflections on federated blogging, one year later
https://writings.bryan.lv/new-year-new-blog-reflections-on-federated-blogging-one-year-later/