"Make the indie web easier" - > If we truly want to open up the web for everyone to publish on, we have to make it easier. Let’s give people choices. Let’s give people options for tools they can set up and use, with no more knowledge than the knowledge they already have.
https://gilest.org/indie-easy.html
#Indieweb • New #article just added to #Otter.

New #article: "Make the indie web easier" - > If we truly want to open up the web for everyone to publish on, we have to make it easier. Let’s give people choices. Let’s give people options for tools they can set up and use, with no more knowledge than the knowledge they already have.
https://gilest.org/indie-easy.html
#Indieweb

@devnull I was under the assumption that e.g. #wordpress or @textpattern entering this space would result in lots of federated single-author / single-actor sites.

So the receiving backend doesn't have many targets to parcel delivery but rather just one.

How do you expect this situation to turn out?

#indieweb #fediverse #activitypub

📝 New Post: Summer Days On The Beach

https://flamedfury.com/posts/summer-days-on-the-beach/

This post is part of the 32-Bit Cafe's Holidays 2023 Event (https://32bit.cafe/holidays2023/)

I've left it to the last minute; submissions close tomorrow!

#blog #indieweb

Coming back to say, @nerdyblinddude that neither the blog URL nor the handle you mentioned in your post show up when I do a search on my instance. For others, looks like we have a newcomer to the #IndieWeb space so check out https://tnbd.xyz/

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Bridgy Fed now supports all web sites! You can now use it from the fediverse to see and follow any site, regardless of whether it has microformats2, webmentions, or WebFinger. Bridgy Fed extracts as much profile info as it can, generates fediverse posts from Atom and RSS feeds, and so on.

Web sites start out bridged to the fediverse as [domain]@web.brid.gy. For example, to see new nature.com articles in your fediverse feed, follow @nature.com@web.brid.gy. And as always, if you have a web site, you can upgrade Bridgy Fed to use its domain in its fediverse handle, like mine at @snarfed.org@snarfed.org.

(I’ve loved seeing other similar bridges recently too, including @twilliability@genart.social‘s RSS Parrot and @dave@podcastindex.social‘s pi-activitypub-server. We’re all pulling in the same direction!)

This is one more step toward making Bridgy Fed support people wherever they are, on any network, fully bidirectionally. Stay tuned for more!

for those of us that live in a city, what if we all created a guest network on our routers called “- The Peoples’ Wi-Fi -“ and set the password to ‘Liberate-The-Net’ so anyone anywhere could access the internet regardless of their location or situation?

#directaid #mutualaid #communityaid #indieweb #wifi #internet #connectivity #community #urban #LiberateTheNet #ThePeoplesWiFi #FCC #ACP #AffordableConnectivityProgram #infosec #solarpunk

Lots of people had lots of interesting things to say about my last blog post, so I tried to sum it all up as best I could:

https://gilest.org/indie-easy-again.html

#indieweb

Wordpress vs Backdrop - A Comparison

Backdrop CMS and WordPress are both content management systems (CMS), but with different philosophies, histories, and they each offer distinct user experiences. In this article, we will outline some of the key differences between the two platforms, covering aspects such as usability, functionality, community, security, performance, and flexibility with data.

More ....

https://simplo.site/posts/wordpress-vs-backdrop-comparison

#IndieWeb #Websites #Wordpress #BackdropCMS

Pet peeve: if you join a #webring (and if you own a blog, you totally should!), for goodness sake, include navigation links for the webring on your site! #indieweb

ActivityPub plugin for WordPress has bumped to version 2.0, lots of good changes. No-brainer prediction that blogging with ActivityPub will continue to improve throughout 2024, in Micro.blog, WordPress, and elsewhere.

gilest.org: Make the indie web easier

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If we want the future web we’re all clamouring for, we need to give people more options for self-hosted independence. If we seriously, truly want the independent, non-enshittified personal web to flourish, we need to make it easier for people to join in.

If you’re an entrepreneur, this such an opportunity! While everyone else is zigging with “AI”, you could be zagging with something genuinely useful for people.

#indieweb #personal #publishing #tools #cms #hosting #independent #simplicity #complexity

Recomment the 「Indie Microblogging 」book.

Learned a lot about the history of the IndieWeb, and some key web standards.

Thanks the author!

https://book.micro.blog

#indieweb

Here is a video promo for a Backdrop CMS training that we'll be offering on Jan 23-24 targeted at beginners looking to build their first Backdrop site.

Backdrop CMS is powerful opensource CMS that allows for ambitious database driven websites without the need for coding or css.

https://youtu.be/7kzMgawd5Dk?si=cygGfYPPF3FyqQXo

Direct link to training is:
https://simplo.site/events/build-your-own-website-backdrop-cms

#BackdropCMS #Indieweb

I’ve been so inspired recently by all the wonderful folks out there blogging, so I decided to do the same. Here goes my first post: https://abdo.wtf/blog/hello-world/

#neocities #indieweb