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I am continually impressed by my colleagues, friends, and acquaintances that make their own websites, whether it's design, dev, strategy, or somehow manage the entire task on their own. Regardless, get out there and make a site for yourself. Reach out for help if you need it.

I'm collecting a bunch that have recently emerged or recently found, but until I collect them up for posting, here's one to start with:

Chris Glass:

https://chrisglass.com & @glass

#IndieWeb #POSSE #WebDesign #Blog

How Cambridge Analytica Exploited the Facebook Data of Millions | NYT 2018:

> In 2014, you may've taken a quiz online. Something that looks like this. And if you did, you probably shared your personal data and friends' personal data.

#CambridgeAnalytica #SmallWeb #IndieWeb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrnXv-g4yKU

@ILoveNumAn I indeed have. Since you also mentioned missing flash games, I recommend checking out @waxy . He mainly shares techy articles, but also quirky browser games and weird little #indieweb projects.

New story in my People series: A niche stack. Just a short story about an encounter at the store when looking for a holiday treat.

#IndieWeb #SmallWeb #PersonalSites
https://www.vzqk50.com/blog/people/a-niche-snack/

It's official! I'm now a proud participant in the IndieWeb! :pensive_party_blob:

Microformats, webmentions, feed, automatic backfeed from Mastodon... the whole package!

I just wished for clearer documentation.. figuring out how to interconnect the various pieces was quite a nightmare, but very simple once understood.

#indieweb #posse #webmention #webdev

https://squeaki.sh/p/being-part-of-the-indieweb

On my blog: Caught in the Indie Web
The Title https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/03/27/indieweb-3.html - A two-week update on my exploration of Indie Web technologies and where things stand.
#blog #indieweb #programming #techtips

@indieweb.org/POSSE in effect!

Well done @joanwestenberg@threads.net 🙌🏻

#POSSE threads
 
https://www.threads.net/@joanwestenberg/post/C43gPbVSzPI:
“Me: You should publish on your own website first, then other platforms.

 Me: Publishes on my own website first, then other platforms.

 Galaxy brains: HOW IRONIC YOU PUBLISH ON OTHER PLATFORMS”
 

#IndieWeb
Join the open social web or be relegated the same fate as AOL, who couldn't even sustain their dominant instant messaging silo.
#Twitter, #Pinterest, #Snapchat, #Quora, you're not special enough to survive on your own. And tick-tock #TikTok.

#fediverse threads

https://www.threads.net/@evanprodromou/post/C46RHmMv1te:
“If Meta can join the Fediverse, what's your excuse?”


#openSocialWeb #AOL #AIMsilo
#Twitter #Pinterest #Snapchat #Quora #TikTok #fediverse #openSocialWeb #AOL #AIMsilo

Wanna be a part of the #IndieWeb? Sign up for and post on your own site. That’s it. The rest of it is nice to haves. Can’t or don’t want to set up DNS for a custom domain? Email me and I’ll help. I can’t promise expediency, but I’ll help. https://coryd.dev/contact #SmallWeb

@indieweb.org/POSSE in effect!

Well done @joanwestenberg@threads.net 🙌🏻

#POSSE threads
 
https://www.threads.net/@joanwestenberg/post/C43gPbVSzPI:
“Me: You should publish on your own website first, then other platforms.

 Me: Publishes on my own website first, then other platforms.

 Galaxy brains: HOW IRONIC YOU PUBLISH ON OTHER PLATFORMS”
 

#IndieWeb
One downside of using "test" servers for a long time: I need to decide what to keep -- and how -- when I shut them down, because I don't want to keep running extra copies of publicly-visible internet-facing software.

A lot of it I'm happy to just let disappear! (I can probably script deleting everything -- or almost everything -- for Snac2, since it has good CLI support. Not sure about the GoToSocial one.)

But I'll want to move some posts to my website, like I've done (and am still working through!) with posts at Mastodon, Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, Reddit, Instagram, Google Plus, all the way back to LiveJournal.

Now, unlike those silos, as long as I keep the domain name, I can redirect the web views of those posts using a simple nginx config or apache .htaccess file.

But what about the Fediverse view of those posts?

- I could just delete them, since they'll already be on my website.
- I could not delete them, but still shut down the server, and let the ActivityPub objects live on in whichever servers have them cached. If I boost them into my new account/server, they should stick around indefinitely.
- I could delete them and import them to the new account, breaking the original interactions but keeping them functional for new interactions.
- I could save the JSON objects and serve them statically from the original hostnames, alongside the redirects for the HTML views. I think this should preserve existing boosts/likes/replies, and I can edit them first to point to the new account, then create the archive using something like this approach:
https://maho.dev/2024/02/a-guide-to-implementing-activitypub-in-a-static-site-or-any-website-part-4/

I don't know, I'm probably just overthinking it!

#ActivityPub #IndieWeb #backfill #Snac2 #GoToSocial #StaticWeb #brainstorming #AccountMigration

Just got a wonderful treat for switching to a privacy-first web analytics tool.

Previously my site landing page performance was sitting in the 60s to 70s… Not ideal.

After scraping out Google Analytics, the other dependencies it required, and swapping in Fathom Analytics

Mobile to 84, Desktop to 99 🤯

Working to address some LCP issues on mobile (going to try preloading fonts) but… holy crap what a stark change.

#indieweb #seo

OK, the stars were consulted, and it has been decided:

Season 2 of Fern River Club will begin this Friday, March 29. 🌴

A new scene will drop every Friday for the next 10 weeks thereafter (with a few surprises sprinkled in...)

Tell your friends! 🛋️

https://fernriver.club/

#erotica #EroticFiction #EroticStories #indieweb #DigitalGarden #ShortStory #bisexual #lgbtq #SexBlog

I love RSS - there I said it!

In a few 1:1 coversations this year as well as a few online posts I've read, I've realiseed there are still people out there who don't know about this wonderful technology and that it's now getting some momentum again.

So now that I've back writing post again .. here's a little something.

https://www.liamjbennett.me/posts/2024-03-26-love-letter-to-rss/

#rss #indieweb

SO excited to announce everyone's submissions for our first anniversary #codejam are up and available to see! the prompt was "what has creating a website done for you?"

i love these, some really amazing submissions! i hope you'll give it a browse!

https://tilde.32bit.cafe/~hermit/community_jam_3/submissions.html

#indieweb #web #website #HTML #webdev #smallweb #personalwebsites #internet #hobby #coding

1 month into my journey as a non-technical person with #kirbycms :
- Installed MAMP for the first time and tested Kirby on localhost
- made sure my hosting provider supports PHP 8
- edited config files
- started to understand php code
- moved 3 websites to @getkirby
- @thezeroclub theme works great (for my needs).

Congrats!

#web #indieweb #opensource

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