I think I might be more of a "lowercase i & w" #indieweb fella.
> The internet has always been made of people, but it has not always been people-first. The indieweb reminds us that humanity is the most important thing, and that nobody should own our ability to connect, form relationships, express ourselves, be creative, learn from each other, and embrace our differences and similarities
"The indieweb is for everyone" - post from werd.io
Tantek Çelik has posted a lovely encapsulation of the indieweb:The #IndieWeb is for everyone, everyone who wants to be part of the world-wide-web of interconnected people. The social internet of… https://werd.io/2024/the-indieweb-is-for-everyone
The indieweb is for everyone
The internet has always been made of people, but it has not always been people-first. The indieweb reminds us that humanity is the most important thing, and that nobody should own our ability to connect, form relationships, express ourselves, be creative, learn from each other, and embrace our differences and similarities.
Ben’s ode to the indie web:
One could look at the movement as kind of a throwback to the very early web, which was a tapestry of wildly different sites and ideas, at a time when everybody’s online communications were templated through web services owned by a handful of billion dollar corporations. I’d prefer to think of it as a manifesto for diversity of communications, the freedom to share your knowledge and lived experiences on your own terms, and maintaining the independence of freedom of expression from business interests.
Ben Werdmuller blogs about how the IndieWeb is for everyone, inspired by a post from Tantek Çelik. Tantek:
The IndieWeb is for everyone, everyone who wants independence from organizations, independence of agency to associate, and who embraces the web of humans that want to interconnect, to communicate, to value and respect each other, whether one degree apart or thirty.
Both great posts.
"I’d prefer to think of it as a manifesto for diversity of communications, the freedom to share your knowledge and lived experiences on your own terms, and maintaining the independence of freedom of expression from business interests."
Great blog from @ben on the how the #indieweb is for everyone: “it’s about building a social internet of people: a human network of gloriously diverse lived experiences, creative modes of expression, community affinities, and personalities.”
https://werd.io/2024/the-indieweb-is-for-everyone
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In a world where publishers are finding that owning their own digital presences and relationships with their audiences is imperative, the #indieweb is more important than ever before. https://werd.io/2024/the-indieweb-is-for-everyone
Last year, I revived a site I had built back in the late 90s as a tribute to Dynamite Magazine. Part of that nostalgia was adding a guestbook, and I even included the comments I received way back then. Even some of the original staff signed it!
99% of the comments now are just bots. It's a struggle to bring back old school web like this without serious moderation safeguards. Using Netlify Forms works pretty well.
I have written too many words on another reason search engines have stopped working: what they are looking for no longer exists.
1. domain names, depend on registrars, which you can switch
2. web hosts, depend on hosting providers, which you can switch
3. internet access, depends on internet service providers, which you can switch
4. web browsing, depends on browsers, which you can switch
5. personal devices, that have choice of web browser and internet access, which you can switch, upgrade, and use multiples of simultaneously
When you can migrate from one provider to another, one device to another, without disruption, without breaking your people-to-people connections, the providers and devices serve you, instead of gatekeeping you.
This freedom to swap, freedom to choose, depends on practical #interoperability across multiple implementations, multiple services. Open standards are the means to encouraging, testing, and verifying this user-feature interoperability across implementations and services.
This is post 6 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts
← https://tantek.com/2024/026/t3/indieweb-for-everyone-internet-of-people
→ 🔮
Post glossary:
domain name
https://indieweb.org/personal-domain
interoperability
https://www.w3.org/wiki/Interoperable
web host
https://indieweb.org/web_host
¹ https://tantek.com/2024/026/t3/indieweb-for-everyone-internet-of-people
These peer-to-peer links should not require corporate platforms or other organizational intermediaries, nor should they require depending on developer intermediaries, nor server administrator intermediaries.
This is the "indie" in IndieWeb, independence from intermediaries, not independence from people. Because the "web" in IndieWeb, is yes the Web of the World Wide Web, and it is also the Web of people.
The "indie" in IndieWeb is also the independent agency to opt-into human-scale groups, opt-into peer-to-peer connections, opt-into communities, opt-into publics. As the POSSE page says: “Figure out how you want to fit into the network”.
The "web" in IndieWeb is also an open acknowledgment and acceptance that regardless of what groups, connections, communities, and publics you opt-into, that they are all interconnected in a larger web, that even without connecting, you can accept and respect from a distance.
The IndieWeb is for everyone, everyone who wants independence from organizations, independence of agency to associate, and who embraces the web of humans that want to interconnect, to communicate, to value and respect each other, whether one degree apart or thirty.¹
This is post 5 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts
← https://tantek.com/2024/023/t1/should-public-posts-flow-across-sites
→ https://tantek.com/2024/027/t1/indieweb-ideals-systems-swappable
Post glossary:
IndieWeb
https://indieweb.org/
POSSE
https://indieweb.org/POSSE
publics
https://indieweb.org/publics
¹ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/aug/03/internet.email
1. domain names, depend on registrars, which you can switch
2. web hosts, depend on hosting providers, which you can switch
3. internet access, depends on internet service providers, which you can switch
4. web browsing, depends on browsers, which you can switch
5. personal devices, that have choice of web browser and internet access, which you can switch, upgrade, and use multiples of simultaneously
When you can migrate from one provider to another, one device to another, without disruption, without breaking your people-to-people connections, the providers and devices serve you, instead of gatekeeping you.
This freedom to swap, freedom to choose, depends on practical #interoperability across multiple implementations, multiple services. Open standards are the means to encouraging, testing, and verifying this user-feature interoperability across implementations and services.
This is post 6 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts
← https://tantek.com/2024/026/t3/indieweb-for-everyone-internet-of-people
→ 🔮
Post glossary:
domain name
https://indieweb.org/personal-domain
interoperability
https://www.w3.org/wiki/Interoperable
web host
https://indieweb.org/web_host
¹ https://tantek.com/2024/026/t3/indieweb-for-everyone-internet-of-people
These peer-to-peer links should not require corporate platforms or other organizational intermediaries, nor should they require depending on developer intermediaries, nor server administrator intermediaries.
This is the "indie" in IndieWeb, independence from intermediaries, not independence from people. Because the "web" in IndieWeb, is yes the Web of the World Wide Web, and it is also the Web of people.
The "indie" in IndieWeb is also the independent agency to opt-into human-scale groups, opt-into peer-to-peer connections, opt-into communities, opt-into publics. As the POSSE page says: “Figure out how you want to fit into the network”.
The "web" in IndieWeb is also an open acknowledgment and acceptance that regardless of what groups, connections, communities, and publics you opt-into, that they are all interconnected in a larger web, that even without connecting, you can accept and respect from a distance.
The IndieWeb is for everyone, everyone who wants independence from organizations, independence of agency to associate, and who embraces the web of humans that want to interconnect, to communicate, to value and respect each other, whether one degree apart or thirty.¹
This is post 5 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts
← https://tantek.com/2024/023/t1/should-public-posts-flow-across-sites
→ 🔮
Post glossary:
IndieWeb
https://indieweb.org/
POSSE
https://indieweb.org/POSSE
publics
https://indieweb.org/publics
¹: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/aug/03/internet.email
Bookmark Roundup – January
In which I dump a bunch of cool stuff I’ve found via my random browsing, the fediverse, or things people have sent to me.
Git stuff, Taxes, Radio Shows, Scrobbling, Cybersecurity Conferences, Books… and more