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Flipboard has started its 3-phase process of joining the Fediverse!

1️⃣ Federating 25 publishers and creators
2️⃣ Let Fediverse people follow / engage with public curators on Flipboard
3️⃣ Let Flipboard people follow / engage with public accounts in the Fediverse

@mike on their approach 👇

https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/flipboard-begins-to-federate/

#fediverse #activitypub #openweb #indieweb

I just submitted a post to the IndieWeb Carnival on Positive Internalization, which, apparently, means far more than just happy memories. In so doing, I realised I have a happy memory to share from this day in 2009, which I don't think I have internalised.

https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/scenes-from-roman-life-17

#IndieWeb #BlogCarnival

I use #Eleventy to build both my personal and many of my community websites.

I use Eleventy's Global Data Files for these community sites to build the calendar, history timeline, sponsors, team and speaker hall of fame.

I've found it a very nice way to update the website as I just add or change data in small JSON files and everything else follows from there.

https://hamatti.org/posts/community-websites-with-eleventy/

#IndieWeb #SmallWeb #Blogging #Website

@snarfed.org posted a great overview of thoughtful (and sometimes heated) discussions across blogs and the #fediverse about how freely should “public” posts & comments on the web flow across sites:

“Moderate people, not code” (https://snarfed.org/2024-01-21_moderate-people-not-code)

If you are designing or creating any kind of publishing or social features on the web, this post is for you.

It touches on topics ranging from #contextCollapse to #federation to #moderation and everything in between.

Does your choice of publishing tool set expectations about where your content might propagate, or whether it will be indexed by search engines? Should it?

Do the limitations of your server (e.g. js;dr) imply limitations of where your posts go, or whether they can be searched or archived? Should they?

When you post something publicly, are you truly posting it for a global audience for all time, or only for one or a few more limited #publics for an ephemerality?

When you reply to a post, do you expect your reply to only be visible in the context you posted it, or do you expect it to travel alongside that post to anywhere it might propagate to?


On the #IndieWeb, especially for public posts, some of these questions have easier and more obvious answers, because the intent of nearly all public IndieWeb posts is to interact across the web with other posts and sites, typically via the #Webmention protocol. However there are still questions.

Are the expectations for a blog and blogging different from a social media site, whether a silo or an instance on a network?

Is a personal website with posts still just a blog, or does it become something new when you start posting responses from your site, or receiving (e.g. via Webmention) and displaying responses from across the web to your posts on your site? Or is it now a “social website”?

If you have a social website, what is your responsibility for keeping it, well, social? Do you moderate Webmentions by default? Do you use the Vouch extension for some automatic moderation?

Are #POSSE & #backfeed different from federation or are they the same thing from a user-perspective, with merely different names hinting at different implementations?

Do you allow anyone from any site to respond or react to your posts? Or do you treat your social website like your home, and follow what I like to call a “house party protocol”, only letting in those you know, and perhaps allowing them to bring a +1 or 2?

I have many more questions. Each of these deserves thoughtful discussions, documentation of what different tools & services do today that we can try out, learn from, and use to make considered decisions when creating new things to post on and across websites.

This is post 4 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts

https://tantek.com/2024/022/t1/indiewebcamp-brighton-planned
→ 🔮


Post glossary:

backfeed
  https://indieweb.org/backfeed

blog
  https://indieweb.org/blog

blogging
  https://indieweb.org/blogging
 
comments
  https://indieweb.org/comments

context collapse
  https://indieweb.org/context_collapse

ephemerality
  https://indieweb.org/ephemerality

js;dr
  https://indieweb.org/js;dr

moderation
  https://indieweb.org/moderation

POSSE
  https://indieweb.org/POSSE

posts
  https://indieweb.org/posts

publics
  https://indieweb.org/publics

reply
  https://indieweb.org/reply

Vouch
  https://indieweb.org/Vouch
 
Webmention
  https://indieweb.org/Webmention
#fediverse #contextCollapse #federation #moderation #publics #IndieWeb #Webmention #POSSE #backfeed #100PostsOfIndieWeb #100Posts

IndieWebify.Me - a guide to getting you on the #IndieWeb

https://indiewebify.me/

@snarfed.org posted a great overview of thoughtful (and sometimes heated) discussions across blogs and the #fediverse about how freely should “public” posts & comments on the web flow across sites:

“Moderate people, not code” (https://snarfed.org/2024-01-21_moderate-people-not-code)

If you are designing or creating any kind of publishing or social features on the web, this post is for you.

It touches on topics ranging from #contextCollapse to #federation to #moderation and everything in between.

Does your choice of publishing tool set expectations about where your content might propagate, or whether it will be indexed by search engines? Should it?

Do the limitations of your server (e.g. js;dr) imply limitations of where your posts go, or whether they can be searched or archived? Should they?

When you post something publicly, are you truly posting it for a global audience for all time, or only for one or a few more limited #publics for an ephemerality?

When you reply to a post, do you expect your reply to only be visible in the context you posted it, or do you expect it to travel alongside that post to anywhere it might propagate to?


On the #IndieWeb, especially for public posts, some of these questions have easier and more obvious answers, because the intent of nearly all public IndieWeb posts is to interact across the web with other posts and sites, typically via the #Webmention protocol. However there are still questions.

Are the expectations for a blog and blogging different from a social media site, whether a silo or an instance on a network?

Is a personal website with posts still just a blog, or does it become something new when you start posting responses from your site, or receiving (e.g. via Webmention) and displaying responses from across the web to your posts on your site? Or is it now a “social website”?

If you have a social website, what is your responsibility for keeping it, well, social? Do you moderate Webmentions by default? Do you use the Vouch extension for some automatic moderation?

Are #POSSE & #backfeed different from federation or are they the same thing from a user-perspective, with merely different names hinting at different implementations?

Do you allow anyone from any site to respond or react to your posts? Or do you treat your social website like your home, and follow what I like to call a "house party protocol", only letting in those you know, and perhaps allowing them to bring a +1 or 2?

I have many more questions. Each of these deserves thoughtful discussions, documentation of what different tools & services do today that we can try out, learn from, and use to make considered decisions when creating new things to post on and across websites.

This is post 4 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts

https://tantek.com/2024/022/t1/indiewebcamp-brighton-planned
→ 🔮


Post glossary:

backfeed
  https://indieweb.org/backfeed

blog
  https://indieweb.org/blog

blogging
  https://indieweb.org/blogging
 
comments
  https://indieweb.org/comments

context collapse
  https://indieweb.org/context_collapse

ephemerality
  https://indieweb.org/ephemerality

js;dr
  https://indieweb.org/js;dr

moderation
  https://indieweb.org/moderation

POSSE
  https://indieweb.org/POSSE

posts
  https://indieweb.org/posts

publics
  https://indieweb.org/publics

reply
  https://indieweb.org/reply

Vouch
  https://indieweb.org/Vouch
 
Webmention
  https://indieweb.org/Webmention

I had missed web rings. Stoked to learn it is back! https://indieweb.org/indiewebring #indieweb

Since blogs are making a comeback, is there a #Podcast where people read long or short blog posts from the IndieWeb/SmallWeb? I was thinking a thing similar to the guardian audio long reads, but having volunteers just read any blog posts they enjoy and then hosting these as a podcast. #Podcasts #IndieWeb #SmallWeb

Sharing links seems to be flavour of the week around here.

I’ve been doing it for a few years now: https://flamedfury.com/bookmarks/

You can subscribe to the feed too: https://flamedfury.com/bookmarks-feed.xml

I’ll write up how I do it soon.

#openweb #personalweb #indieweb #web #webdev #blog

New blog post! Link Drop - Jan 23, 2024

Dropping some interesting and useful things I've found over the last week or so.

https://blog.jcrabapple.com/link-drop-jan-23-2024/

#indieweb

New blog post! Sharing a really great #indierock playlist today!

#Tunesday Playlist Share — Shrediverse Music Blog

https://blog.shrediverse.net/tunesday-playlist-share

#indieweb

Recent thing on my website, How to block AI narrators on Audible. https://robertkingett.com/posts/6433/ #IndieWeb #SmallWeb

Linking

#links #linking #curation #indieweb #personal #publishing #sharing #writing #reading #exploring

@sass I'd say #IndieWeb is a solid option for that, as would more specific tags like #CSS, but would be interesting to get something more specific 🙂

@sass I've been using #IndieWeb but I'd like to find this too. I spend too much time fiddling with https://ferrell.rocks and I'd love to see what other people are doing.

Is there a Mastodon hashtag for people who like to tinker with their personal website and just chat about it / ask questions on here? Like, “hey I tweaked my CSS a bit, cool huh?” -kinda stuff.

#indieweb #tinkering #webdev #casual #website

https://mastodon.social/@davatron5000 underlines an important piece missing from the “build your own website” trend. We need to read, discuss and link each other’s content, in order to promote diversity and growth in the community.

In one word, #AIFAM!

https://fredrocha.net/2023/04/21/build-your-own-website-and-they-will-not-come/

#indieweb #rss #curation

Deplatforming Myself: A Tech Manifesto – Haste Makes Waste

The modern web is constantly, endlessly hoovering up massive amounts of data about you, only some of which is correct, and then feeding you its best guess of what will glue your eyeballs to the screen just a little bit longer, no matter what that is, whether it’s actually good for you or not.

#platforms #algorithms #curation #indieweb #internet #society #culture #enshittification

I posted something new last night on my blog, and it caused an issue with the RSS feed (audio embeds with bad HTML).

Someone noticed and reported it, I fixed it - and that has made my day.

#SmallWeb #IndieWeb #rss