So, a little spoiler. There were:
- banners
- web buttons
- antipixels

All of them had one goal: to show visitors other cool websites. You had a website about dragon ball? For sure you had a few “traded” banners. I’ll put yours if you put mine. This was when wab was young and full of hope. When there was no algorithm.

I’m creating those to promote my site. Does anyone here still have those for your sites? Let’s bring them back! Let’s bring back the JOY OF INTERNET.

#internet #SmallWeb #indieweb #antipixel

Seven Year Itch

Thanks to #AI scraping, I just had to delete over 20 RSS feeds from my reader that didn’t have a pay what you can option because the blogs have migrated to paid structure to prevent being scraped by machines. If you’re going to have a paywall, I highly encourage you to make it pay what you can/pay what you want. This way, it will force all the technology people to pay you, and it’ll give low income people ways to experience your art/content/whatever #Blog #Blogs #IndieWeb #SmallWeb

@clmorgan Maybe #IndieWeb & #POSSE & the new abilities to consolidate comments may bring discussion together again?

I have been pondering the fragmentation of comments here on Mastodon (different readers see different parts of a discussion), & more importantly their impermanence (we can go to "original page" to see all, but replies may be purged). Having a copy of record on a site under personal control might be good. Fellow-historians, any thoughts or models?

@kawulf @lizcovart @histodons

Here's my entry for the #IndieWeb carnival, hosted by Manuel Moreale this month, on the theme of digital relationships. The experiences I've discussed are quite different, and I'd love to talk about this more!

https://chavanniclass.wordpress.com/2024/02/28/digital-relationships/

#blog #blogging #internet #SocialMedia #tech

in the spirit of the #oldweb, i've been thinking for a while about how to compile topics and interests i care a lot about. they're called "shrines" on this side of the #web, but in convention with my website being a museum, i introduce you to the hall of favorites: https://xandra.cc/favorites/

i'll warn you in advance only once that the cheese level is off the charts, but that's sometimes the best part of personal websites! if you take a look, thank you. <3

#personalweb #indieweb #internet #personalwebsites #webdev #hobby #html #website #personalsites #websites

Platforms are selling your work to AI vendors with impunity. They need to stop.

Just found out about the #indieweb hashtag and I'm going down the rabbit hole. I used to blog and this movement makes me want to do it once again!

@ellie even if only 0.0001% of the internet returns to #indieweb that's a MASSIVE improvement

I think I miss the point of the #now page in #aboutIdeasNow

People seem to use it as a sort of "Objectives" article?

I feel like /now could be a list of activities like in #ActivityPub since those are often things I'm reading and sharing right now.

#indieweb #posse #cozyWeb #webDev #smallweb

February is coming to an end soon so my monthly journal series (a.k.a. "Captain’s Log) entry has gone live. 'tis a fun way for me to summarize the past month, get a little personal and document things in a way that may not quite fit in a normal note/blog post.

https://shellsharks.com/captains-log/2024/02/28/log

#indieweb #journal

Small dents in the IndieWeb · Paul Robert Lloyd

Paul has been doing so much fantastic work with the indie web community, not least of which is co-organising Indie Web Camp Brighton—just ten days away now!

#indieweb #community #graphic #design #icons #indiewebcamp #homepage #redesign

It's awesome how, as the #indieweb is coming back, and corporate control is waning (at least my environment makes it easier to move in that direction), I get a faint glimpse of the internet in the way it was before the money people came and messed things up.
What were tales of the past is now becoming accessible to people too young to experience it the first time.

You can't spell GOFORIT without GOPHER!

Sorry I'm still drunk. 😅

#gopher #GeminiProtocol #smallweb #indieweb

Bumped my #IndieWeb site over to #CloudFlare Pages today, from #GitHub Pages. Now I have all their DNS toys to play with.