Tomorrow's the official start of #30DayFOSSChallenge! We've got a few people chatting in the #matrix already: https://matrix.to/#/#30DayFOSSChallenge:mozilla.org
Feel free to join us. Don't know what I'm talking about? Look here: https://nullarch.com/30DayFOSSChallenge.html
I just updated my website.
I added some links to the ever growing links page. Among others I am linking to the websites of @lostletters@cutie.city, @deathkitten, and @tansy@wandering.shop. I hope that is ok!
I also finished copying all of my Discovery thoughts from here to there, except for the Short Treks. They are coming some other time.
#PersonalWebsite #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #neocities
š: Owning My Own Social #Tech #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #SocialMedia https://shellsharks.com/own-my-social
April's #IndieWeb Carnival is hosted by Aaron on the topic of "Good enough".
I love the topic! So many ideas popping into my head about how to approach this.
https://risingthumb.xyz/Writing/Blog/IndieWeb_Carnival_of_April
Why a lot of my content is nowĀ gated
I'm gating a lot of my content on my website these days. The reasons are numerous, which I detail in this post, but namely - I want #AI companies, #Google & other corporations to "work for it" if they want my content to boost their profits, and also: I want to keep some stuff more private.
#Indieweb #Internet #SocialMedia #Blogging
http://elizabethtai.com/2024/03/31/why-a-lot-of-my-content-is-now-gated/
Readers of my regular blog are probably wondering why a lot of my posts are now gated. Meaning, you need to subscribe to the website (ie give me your email) so that you can access them. I totally understand why some people may think āscrew thisā and scroll away, but I have many reasons to do what Iām doing.
Gated content are for those who are truly invested in my content
I still share ungated content. You donāt have to subscribe to my blog to read what I write. But the ones behind a āgateā or a subscribe box is for those who want to keep updated with what I write. I create exclusive content for them.
I donāt want to keep newsletter content on just Substack
I am currently mirroring my newsletter content on both Substack and my website. I believe in owning my content, but I also believe in tapping on the platformās networking abilities. Yes, as Iām not a programming whiz, itās not automated. I have to copy and paste this. I often publish on the blog first before Substack.
I want to stick it to Google
These days, I donāt really care about Google. I have more or less have given up on the Google SEO train and am relying solely on the power of networking and recommendations, which feels more fulfilling and wroth it. If I do get SEO juice, great. If I donāt, I no longer car. I just do not want to dance to the algorithm anymore.
AI, baby.
Since Google slyly said that it would scrape all content on the web to train its AI apps, I decided to give it the middle finger and put most of my valuable content behind a gate and my archive and most personal writings behind a paywall (coming soon to this website once I get off my butt to set it up). Sure, the protection may be illusory, but if Google or other nefarious corporations want to take it, theyāre gonna have to work for it.
I want a sense of privacy
Iāve grown increasingly protective about my personal life and thoughts. Iām especially conscious of those āchecking me outā for reasons that Iām not comfortable with. So, having my private and more personal thoughts behind a paywall or subscription form helps to ensure that those who bothered to hand me their email and money are not simply trolls.
Not guaranteed, of course. But again, if they want this content, theyāre gonna have to pay or give me their emails to get it.
https://elizabethtai.com/2024/03/31/why-a-lot-of-my-content-is-now-gated/
Weather Today for Android | Cool As Heck
https://cool-as-heck.blog/post/weather-today-for-android-w7mpz7jc
.@capjamesg I've been thinking about blogging about coffee (and getting a bit distracted thinking about representing coffee with #microformats/ #gohugo content types). But my actual decision tree is probably less complex than yours.
re: https://jamesg.blog/2024/03/30/coffee-to-drink-decision-tree/
Also a fan of #mermaidjs but discovered GoAT via the #gohugo docs: https://github.com/bep/goat
For those who just got a āyouāre now followingā message: Iāve moved my presence that was jlgatewood @jlgatewood over here to cut down on managing Mastodon accounts.
šš¾āāļø The Vivaldi.net instance is also better because it doesnāt block every single instance under the sun unless thereās a direct threat first (Iām looking at you Fediblock folks with the whole āletās block Threads because Zuck sucksā mentality) Not sure if intentional or not, but I couldnāt see Threads accounts over there and Iām really trying to inform everyone on the merits of open source networks.
š This instance also has a 1337 character limit. Fun! But also good for me when my microblogging becomes macroblogging.
šÆ Also Iām @starrwulfe everywhere else, and never really use my āguhmintā name out there and kinda want to keep some consistency.
⨠Finally, I want to line everything up with how I use my website http://starrwulfe.xyz as a āhubā for most of my original posts because itās a first party member of the fediverse too (please follow @starrwulfe@starrwulfe.xyz and @starrwulfe@abc.starrwulfe.xyz too!)
š§ As such, there may be a few more moves of followers to these domains as I try my best to #OwnMyPosts and be a good example of how #indieweb, #fediverse and #openSNS works.
I appreciate your support and follows! āš¾
One of the reasons Iām loving building my garden of an #IndieWeb blog is pulling all my silo'd posts from Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and everywhere else back into a space I can interact with.
I just came across this this imported tweet https://www.byjp.me/notes/twitter/5653892614/ from 2009, referencing a paper I wrote for my Physics degree and *wow* I don't follow a word of the abstract! What a privilege it is to have this insight into a different me, with a totally different set of skills.
In case you want to easily decrease the data you send to Google, embed YouTube videos differently on your site:
https://michaelnordmeyer.com/embedding-youtube-videos-without-sending-the-sites-url-to-youtube
Essay #9 is out now. Check it out!
https://kadambari.bearblog.dev/giving-advice-ideal-reader/
#writing #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #blog #blogging #IndieWeb #reading #writers
@schizanon Yeah Iāve been trying to catalog some URLs that sites may/should have. Some are more common than othersā¦
- Well-Known URLs: https://shellsharks.com/notes/2023/08/10/well-known-uri
- /Uses: https://uses.tech/
- /Now: https://shellsharks.com/now
- /Ideas: https://aboutideasnow.com/about
- Indieweb.txt: https://indieweb.org/indieweb.txt
- Humans.txt: https://humanstxt.org
- ai.txt: https://site.spawning.ai/spawning-ai-txt
- /about: maybe?
- Sitemap.xml, Robots.txt
My āWebsite Component Checklistā: https://shellsharks.com/notes/2023/08/15/website-component-checklist
Not sure why Hugo removed their accessibility tag for themes, but you can still filter accessibility ready themes here for the moment, but Hugo should really enable the accessibility tag again when browsing for themes https://trentsonlinedocs.xyz/hugo-themes-report/hugo-themes-report.html #Hugo #Accessibility #SmallWeb #IndieWeb
Knee deep in transition from Hugo / micro.blog to @getkirby and Mastodon.
Have about 20 years worth of data to load back in, but the content structure is largely built.
In the interim, here are some photos of my #podenco on the hydrotherapy treadmill.
https://staging.lee-perry.co.uk/notes/baylee-at-hydrotherapy