Further thinking on cold-blooded software, this is perhaps a bit spicy, but from a pure business perspective warm blooded software is not ideal.

Fundamentally, unserious in fact.

#indieweb #webstandards #fediverse

The Pirate Ship Model

"The thing is, if you want a thing to survive on the internet, it needs its own website, and if you have a stake in it, it needs to be your website." - @taalumot

https://taalumot.space/writing/pirate-ship-social-media

#webdev #frontend #indieweb #fediverse

Was asked about #fediverse vis-a-vis #indieweb on a podcast. I said:

“Two identical twins separated a birth.”

That was a spur of the moment thought, but probably not wrong.

Can we reunite the family?

IndieWeb Carnival January 2024 has received it's first submission! 🔥

https://poview.org/posts/the-smell-of-firewood/

Check it out and show @yaideltg some love!

#indieweb #smallweb #blog #writing #hugo #web #internet #webdev

Permanence · Indie Microblogging

One of the reasons to own your content is to make it last. When you have control of the text you write or the photos you post, it’s up to you whether that content stays on the internet. When you post to someone else’s platform, you’ve given up that control. It’s not up to you whether the company that hosts your content will stay in business or change everything to break your content.

#digital #preservation #indieweb #blogs #blogging #personal #publishing #formats #longevity #permanence

I’ve expanded on my toot about LinkedIn’s collaborative articles, on my blog 😀

#LinkedIn #AI #SocialMedia #IndieWeb

https://silviamaggidesign.com/design/linkedin-collaborative-articles/

In this post, I talk about what I did instead of comments or webmentions. https://robertkingett.com/posts/6408/ #IndieWeb

The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again

Anil says the glass is half full:

Across today’s internet, the stores that deliver all the apps on our phones are cracking open, the walls between social media platforms are coming down as the old networks fail, the headlong rush towards AI is making our search engines and work apps weirder (and often worse!). But amidst it all, the human web, the one made by regular people, is resurgent. We are about to see the biggest reshuffling of power on the internet in 25 years, in a way that most of the internet’s current users have never seen before.

#indieweb #weird #personal #publishing #social #networks #decentralisation #regulation

Taking Back the Web with Decentralization: 2023 in Review | Electronic Frontier Foundation

In the past few years, there’s been an accelerating swing back toward decentralization. Users are fed up with the concentration of power, and the prevalence of privacy and free expression violations, and many users are fleeing to smaller, independently operated projects.

#eff #decentralisation #social #networks #activitypub #mastodon #federation #2023
@Tmichellemoore.com (@tmichellemoore@mastodon.social) yes! You can do it!

I created a section on the #100Days page specifically for #100Posts projects:

https://indieweb.org/100_days#100_posts_projects

Add yourself and join in!

Just discovered that if I set the #Webmention plugin *not* to separate webmentions from comments, so they appear in the comment stream, they *do* link to the actual mention, not just the blog home or about page. It’s just when you separate them that the avatars in the facepiles do that. Hopefully I can at least get an option for them to link to the actual mentions. #IndieWeb #WordPress

Hear me out: regular plain old boring cold blooded HTML is almost certainly a better format than markdown for just about any criteria imaginable for a plaintext document format

#webdev #webstandards #fediverse #indieweb

I'm pleased to inform you I don't feel the need to work on a drastic redesign of my personal homepage/blog this year. I'm generally pretty happy with it. https://jaredwhite.com

HOWEVER…

I have a TON of small tweaks and various content updates in mind to add to the site. I also need to get back to my project to make it easier to post from my phone. (Static sites with Markdown files is cool, but very fiddly on mobile!) Hoping to develop a better POSSE habit in 2024. #indieweb

#Business #Celebrations
The web is fantastic · As long as we are not talking about the entire web https://ilo.im/15xj8d

#SocialMedia #OpenWeb #IndieWeb #Website #Blog #BlogRoll #RSS #WebMention #HyperLink

I wish it were possible to create more complex sites just with HTML and CSS — but any aspiring web author learning to create a site that way quickly finds some very common task that’s impossible in plain HTML and CSS.

#indieweb

My current special interest is the Gemini protocol. It's a stripped-down alternative to HTTP.

https://geminiprotocol.net/

And now I'm hosting a blog there!

HTTP: https://lark.gay
Gemini: gemini://lark.gay

#Gemini #SmallWeb #IndieWeb

@techlifeweb A few years ago I went back before I used the IFTTT process and imported older IG posts, I put that code online. https://github.com/artlung/InstalooterToWordPress Though IG is not crawler or backup friendly, it worked at the time. #indieweb page on IG is worth a bookmark. https://indieweb.org/Instagram

Oooh bby! Guess who's hosting the 8th edition of IndieWeb Carnival:

https://foreverliketh.is/blog/indieweb-carnival-january-2024-positive-internalization/

Take some time this month to dwell (and write!) on your good!

#indieweb #smallweb #blog #writing #hugo #web #webdev #internet #happy #fun

I’ve decided to dedicate 95% of my #Threads personality to yammering on about #Mastodon / the #fediverse and why people should #joinmastodon (and abandon Threads). As an example, here is my most recent plea to the #infosec folks of Threads to create Mastodon accounts and invest their social time here instead of there. My selfish reasons aside, after spending time in both worlds, Mastodon is *much* stronger for this community than Threads is right now. Yes, I know a federated future means a bridge between worlds but I still hold the belief that certain qualities of Mastodon will always make it a more habitable place for infosec folks than a place like Threads (e.g. posts longer than 500 words, posting exploit code that could be moderated out by Threads, PRIVACY implications, etc…)

https://www.threads.net/@mk3s/post/C1mhs7JL2vo/

*Apologies to those who find any association with or time spent on Threads utterly irredeemable. My own feelings are mixed for sure.

My dream is to get more people to invest not just in Mastodon, but in owning their own land on the Internet, i.e. #indieweb principles. Building a brand or relying on big tech for our identities on the web has been proven to be an awful decision. Even relying on well-maintained Mastodon instances is not without some danger.

Leave Threads ➡️ Build a social graph on Mastodon ➡️ Buy a domain ➡️ Publish your *posts / content / w.e on your blog ➡️ Federate your blog (where possible) or simply expose an RSS feed ➡️ Establish a permanent identity on the web less reliant on others.