The case for easier IndieWeb
Reblog from my blog
The IndieWeb is great. Between WebMention and ActivityPub I feel like I have an audience again. However, I only have access to those protocols because someone smarter than me made WordPress plugins.
The truth is that, prior to this essay, all of IndieWeb felt entirely beyond me. I did not understand what it did sometimes. Even if I understood, I did not always understand what the point was. When I understood the point, I did not always understand the technical bits enough to implement or use it. That pretty much just left bits of microformats.
The IndieWeb ideas have transformative power. They allow us to make connections, own our data and online identity. There is even more it can do if someone would just show us the way.
If as a professional developer who thinks rolling up an object-oriented CMS from scratch sounds like a fun time (me) struggles, how much harder will it be for ordinary people with actual lives to live?
There needs to be a less intense onboarding process. IndieWeb must become something that is at least as easy as WordPress (ideally much easier) so that its power can reach the masses. Right now, we are far from mass market appeal but I think we can get there.
We need a whole galaxy of options.
So that next time we say to someone: “You should own your own domain, and publish on your own website,” and they answer with “How?”, we can give an answer that’s more than just: “Install WordPress.”
Let’s make the indie web easier, Giles Turnbull
This is a single section from a much bigger post discussion of making the IndieWeb easier.
#ActivityPub #blogging #IndieWeb #WebMention
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@shollyethan @chris @linuxmatters
There’s one for sure - Fedipage - and I saw a number of tutorials/blog entries (especially from #indieweb community ❤️) for one or another feature #integration.
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New blog post about an indie rock band my daughter and I discovered last year!
Talking Points — Shrediverse Music Blog
https://blog.shrediverse.net/talking-points
#music #indierock #indiepop #indieweb
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Oi. Listen up!
#indieweb #blog carnival is looking for potential hosts for the upcoming months of Feb, Mar, Apr, etc.
It's not hard, but not the easiest gig in the world either. As host, you would have to post 3 separate times in the course of the month.
Please read the following for more details:
https://indieweb.org/indieweb-carnival
I'd be more than happy to answer questions, reserve your month for you, and more.
Thank you for your time and interest!
#SmallWeb #web #writing #webdev #fun
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Zaujímavá úvaha o tom, prečo je vlastný blog lepší ako účet na Fediverse. Autor kritizuje skutočnosť, že aj keď sú sociálne aplikácie vo Fediverse decentralizované, v skutočnosti kopírujú väčšinu negatívnych vlastností tradičných centralizovaných sociálnych médií ako skratkovitosť a banalizáciu komunikácie. Jediný dôvod, prečo ľudia čítajú obsah na sociálnych médiách je ten, že tieto ponúkajú nekonečný prúd informačného šumu vhodný na zabíjanie času. Sociálne médiá v skutočnosti nie sú sociálne, naopak ešte viac izolujú ľudí od seba navzájom. Autor odporúča ako skutočne decentralizované riešenie tvorbu vlastného webu.
https://ericmurphy.xyz/blog/mastodon/
#mastodon #fediverse #indieweb
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We recorded a new YouTube promo for our upcoming Backdrop CMS training.
It's a six hour training that costs $35 and will take place via Zoom on Jan 23 and 24 (next week).
#backdropcms #opensourcecms #website #indieweb
https://youtu.be/n7iLAzN2UfU
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I haven't tried this yet but it seems like a cool idea (I won't have time to try for awhile...).
https://fosstodon.org/@jcrabapple@dmv.community/111744160948068535
"If you browse a lot of #smallweb #indieweb blogs and websites, you should add the StreetPass extenstion to your web browser. It finds #fediverse accounts associated with the blogs you read, and allows you to view the accounts and follow them if you want.
How does it work?
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Ways to improve discovery on the IndieWeb
The IndieWeb is slowly moving from innovation to rely adopter so it is time to start thinking about content discovery. After all, what’s the point of a game for two people if you are the only one at the table?
One of the ways IndieWeb can become easier to use is to become easier to discover new users and content.
The example of the […]
#blogging #discovery #IndieWeb #isBrill #RSS #SocialMedia #Webmention
https://lordmatt.co.uk/?p=1582
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The return of RSS and POSSE points to a revival of the personal website ecosystem that thrived in the early blog era. Writers, researchers, technologists and more are relaunching their independent homepages, complete with feeds, as both a public notebook and a channel for sharing insights. The personal website is the ultimate sovereign territory online, enabling creators to share content on their own terms.
I feel like Joan Westenberg has come up with the perfect tag line for personal websites (emphasis mine):
By passing high-quality, human-centric content through their own lens of discernment before syndicating it to social networks, these curators create islands of sanity amidst oceans of machine-generated content of questionable provenance.
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I've officially been blogging for 1 whole year! 🥳 365 days & 20 blog posts! Lessgo! I published my newest one today, but I'm just enjoying looking at all their cards right now.
https://foreverliketh.is/blog/
I remember when it was all empty (it came with my site's template) and thinking "I'm never gonna use that" Lol. I started thanks to #lain & #bringbackblogging and I keep going thanks to #smallweb & #indieweb
It's hard not to. When there's so much to be inspired from. Here's to another year! 🍾
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Morning new
#indieweb #philosophy #Tools
https://mindcreatesmeaning.com/morning-new/
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Anyone have a tool/service to receive SMS messages into a public RSS feed? Part of my eternal quest to liberate important info that gov. agencies see fit to lock up in proprietary or hard-to-access formats. #indieweb #opendata #localnews
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Issue 27 of the 11ty Bundle is out: Now serving over 900 posts...A new intro making the rounds...And 17 posts, and 3 sites to see.
#11ty #eleventy #webdev #indieweb @zachleat
@eleventy
https://11tybundle.dev/blog/11ty-bundle-27/
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New blog post today, Hellraiser.
This is also the official start of a new category on my blog, People. This'll be a collection of short stories about various people I've met in my life that have impacted me in some way.
https://www.vzqk50.com/blog/people/hellraiser/
#IndieWeb #SmallWeb #PersonalBlog #PersonalSites #Hellraiser #ActuallyAutistic
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Let’s talk about making IndieWeb weirder and easier
I’ve been a huge fan of IndieWeb since I stumbled upon it one fateful day. While the specifics of how I found it are lost in the annals of history, my willingness to use it in every project has never abated. Well, the bits I understand at any rate.
This is why I bring up the topic of making IndieWeb ideas into weird and easier-to-use […]
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Recently I've been reminded of how much fun the Internet can be. Thanks to all of you creating content, promoting content, and enabling others to create their content. This community is truly amazing.
#fediverse #indieweb
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This whole #indieweb thing is giving me some real warm fuzzy early 2000s XHTML nostalgia vibes
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Talking about making IndieWeb easier
I’d like to point you to a blog post that took three days to write. (My average post takes under an hour).
This post in question is called “Let’s talk about making IndieWeb weirder and easier“. It is a reply to some other posts that say we need more IndieWeb tools that are easy to use not just WordPress.
We do. I dive deep into how we might make that happen. I had to stop after I passed 7,100 words. There’s more to say.
For now, just dip into the post and see if anything goes ping for you.
#blogging #code #development #IndieWeb
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