And also, I encourage you, or anybody else, really, to take a day and try these different directories. Link at end, but I was trying to find the website that showed only weird websites, like a site that would play a cat meow every time you clicked a link, but I can't find that database now, but some other directories are at https://indieweb.org/directory #IndieWeb #SmallWeb @infosec_jcp @jrm4

This is incredibly sad. An #independent #publication that worked so hard to build up an audience over 5 years is at risk of going under because of #Google Search's algorithm changes last September drastically deranked them in search results, causing their organic site traffic to plummet and reducing their ad revenue by upwards of 85%.

#Indieweb #SmallWeb

https://retrododo.com/google-is-killing-retro-dodo/

This is a pretty damning look at google - https://retrododo.com/google-is-killing-retro-dodo/

It's also why the #indieweb is so important. I fear it's too late though.

IMHO tying your #publishing business model to #Google search traffic is not very different than tying your online content to a third-party publishing host platform like #Medium or #SocialNetwork like #Facebook. You’re relying on the network effect from an aggregator whose interests can and do drift from yours.

Both are examples of #DigitalSharecropping, a term coined by blogger Nicholas Carr back in 2006: https://www.roughtype.com/?p=634

#IndieWeb

Independent websites that publish expert professional content are dying because #Google search places them below:

• “From Sources” scraped answers

• poorly-differentiated sponsored ads

#Reddit forum results (whom they now pay $60M/year for #AI scraping)

• low-effort content from large media companies littered with affiliate links

And Google has the gall to tell these sites to reduce the ads they display to improve their traffic.

https://retrododo.com/google-is-killing-retro-dodo/

#IndieWeb

I recently got the idea to document the "Architecture" of my site from this post https://matklad.github.io/2021/02/06/ARCHITECTURE.md.html. It details a proposal for open source projects to maintain an ARCHITECTURE.md file that describes a number of things related to high-level architecture of a project.

Now I don’t think a statically-generated, personal, #indieweb site hosted out of a private repo on Github pages was the intended audience for this particular standard, but I've made it anyways 😄.

https://shellsharks.com/architecture

Goodbye Micro.blog

Goodbye Micro.blog

Micro.blog is a promising concept, but there is much room for improvement. I am tired of waiting.

https://islandinthenet.com/a-users-perspective-on-micro-blog/

#ExperienceReport #IndieWeb #microBlog

@pirsch How about a pricing tier for individual, personal sites? You’d be the only company offering that. You’d hoover up lots of #indieweb users looking to leave GA behind. Half-decent marketing tactic.

@pirsch @mikewink Would love to use something like @pirsch or @plausible or @usefathom but, unless you’re running 10s of sites, I can’t make the pricing model work for #IndieWeb projects. GA sucks, so I’m stuck with Cloudflare Analytics, which isn’t as nice as these others by some significant margin.

On my blog: Spinning(?) the Indie Web https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/04/03/indieweb-4.html - A (surprise) three-week update on my exploration of Indie Web technologies and where things stand. #blog #indieweb #programming #techtips

A big list of homepages with especially good designs.

https://deadsimplesites.com/

#indieweb

I’ve been in a bit of a writing slump lately. My journal gets neglected nearly every day, and I feel like whatever I *do* write is kind of mediocre at best.

But I’m still publishing a little post about every concert I go to on my website, so there’s that!

https://svenluijten.com/concerts

#writing #blog #PersonalWebsite #indieweb #concerts

I’ve been writing a lot of nunjucks with 11ty and a lot of JSX-ish template code with astro and I feel like a bad #indieweb citizen when I consistently prefer the JSX but here we are

💻 Setapp: Apps I Currently Use | Notes from the Underground

https://philomath.lol/post/setapp-apps-i-currently-use-uag_rkgo

#Blogging #Blog #IndieWeb

Some quick thoughts on why I forklift & enrich discussions I've had on other platforms to my site, something I like to call "Reverse Syndication" or better known as #PESOS in the #indieweb world...

https://shellsharks.com/notes/2024/04/02/reverse-syndication-pesos

(as it relates to my previous toot)

#blogging #ownyourweb #ownyoursocial

I´m thinking about Leaving WordPress.com

Yes, you heard me right. Between the whole Automatic plans on selling your content to AI, and the whole Ceo disaster when it come to keeping trans people safe (which happen on tumblr which Automatic owns), I´m now facing an awkward position on having a blog here.

#Wordpress #Indieweb #Tumblr #Blogging #Coding

https://ghastlymirror.wordpress.com/2024/04/02/im-thinking-about-leaving-wordpress-com/