Can we create communities around blogrolls?
The second edition of Front End Study Hall will be 14 hours from now. Every day is a great day to learn and teach about good markup and CSS! https://events.indieweb.org/2024/05/front-end-study-hall-002-5oY7I2XFCyLV #indieweb
Truly an assault on the internet we've all helped build.
- "Dear Stack Overflow denizens, thanks for helping train OpenAI's billion-dollar LLMs" https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/07/stack_overflow_openai/
- "Reddit has reportedly signed over its content to train AI models": https://mashable.com/article/reddit-signs-ai-content-licensing-deal
- "WordPress and Tumblr will sell user data to train AI models: https://readwrite.com/tumblr-and-wordpress-to-sell-user-data-to-train-ai-models/
#IndieWeb #internet #TheWeb #ai #llms #capitalism #enshittificaton
Who knew digital gardening could spark so many ideas! I'm working towards a plan finally, and will get to crafting this week.
Worked up my initial concepts, and I think I’ll like the end results!
https://microblog.rjomara.com/2024/05/06/life-interrupted.html
And another Brain Rot
"So, if you liked Movie 1 and want more - sure, this series gets my thumbs up (and therefore rating). But if the Movie 2 floored you but left hungry, don’t expect this series to come anywhere that level of ambition nor quality."
https://michal.sapka.me/brain-rot/anime/patlabor/mobile-police-patlabor-the-early-days/
@jbaty Yeah, they basically are. And they don't even use standard meta tags for their link preview, as I was telling @cory yesterday.
This is where I disagree with the #IndieWeb approach. The open web should not cater to social media; it was here first. Social media should be catering to the open web.
Learn how to search the 'Net w/o the mainstream engines.
Some of the best known alternatives are either getting bad, too (DuckDuckGo is pushing its own AI "solution"), others are "meta-search engines", which run your query thru Google, Bing, etc for you ... which is great for privacy but doesn't do much to improve the search quality.
Look at the various #SearXNG instances (https://searx.space/ ) ... those are meta-search services, but they hit a *lot* of primary engines.
Look for new engines, new projects, alternative solutions.
The #IndieWeb used to have a search engine https://indieweb.org/search ... looks like it might be dead now? But check it out anyway.
Check out https://wiby.me , an alternate search engine specifically for those old, alt, and independent web sites that the main engines are burying.
Search for search.
https://stract.com/ is a beta project, one-person show running on a server in the guy's basement, but it has promise.
https://clew.se is a *very* beta service, made by a kid who just graduated college last week (congrats @amin ! ), he is also trying to set up an algorithm that prefers alternate, home-made "real-people" websites.
There are many alternatives out there ... most are not "ready for prime time" and it's gonna be a learning curve to adjust.
Don't just use 'em. Promote 'em. Help them if you can. Many need non-tech help with documentation and translations and etc.
Thanks @jefklak for creating Go Jammin'! I have just used it to set up webmentions to my home page. Easy to use and well documented. Hats off! 👏
https://git.brainbaking.com/wgroeneveld/go-jamming
#IndieWeb #webmentions #GoJammin #OpenSource
It’s fine to have multiple social web protocols, because this is a good time to experiment and see what sticks. But there’s a limit, and I’m drawing the line at Farcaster. ActivityPub, AT Protocol, and Nostr each provide unique strengths. We do not need a blockchain-based additional platform.
I use https://fed.brid.gy/ and webmentions to allow people to follow me from the fediverse. To send webmentions I use a netlify build plugin but you could use something like https://webmention.app/
@nigel there's a tool for checking the various elements of your site https://indiewebify.me/ but I don't know about enabling a site. Maybe a certain template for the tool you are using to build your site? Most of it is all about microformats which is just html elements. #indieweb
A look back at friendships made, and those forgotten.
https://shellsharks.com/an-ode-to-lost-friends
Inspired by @ApisNecros original post (https://www.vzqk50.com/blog/an-ode-to-lost-friends/)! A beautiful idea that I promised I would steal 😄
#weblogpomo2024 #mondayblogs #blogging #indieweb
Martín participated in #IndieWeb Carnival with a post that focuses on the positives that changing scenery does to your thinking.
Restrictions are a crucial part of the creative process, writes Kimberly in this #IndieWeb Carnival submission.
https://iamkimberly.org/leveraging-restriction-creative-environments/
Dear #indieweb, what are the good #selfhosted tools to #fediverse enable static sites? I've found https://fedipage.com/ but that seems tied to a lot of SaaS out of the box. I basically want posting of articles, and display of fediverse replies.
To follow through on my pledge to do more of my #internet reading on the #indieweb, I've been visiting random blogs using this site and adding any interesting ones to an #RSS feed.
My intention is to browse this feed much the same way I would the news -call it a self-care practice. I want to spend more time in reflection and less in panic. I also want to get ideas for, perhaps, my own blog someday.
I posted 46 reasons why you should have a website.
https://rscottjones.com/why-you-should-have-a-website/)
It's not an exhaustive list. What other reasons am I missing? Tell me and I'll update the post. 🙏. Need to convince more of my friends to start one.
This week we are starting an online Homebrew Website Club Europe (Morning Edition), timed to allow for participants from Europe, Australia, and New Zealand to join.
If you want to chat about personal websites for an hour, join us on Thursday!
See more information about the event:
https://events.indieweb.org/2024/05/homebrew-website-club-europe-morning-edition--gKTB1ieoO1lg
Doing my bit for the ol' #IndieWeb today by updating joegaffey.com and starting to claw back or at least better catalogue some of the content that I've posted across the various Web 2.0 services over the years.
https://joegaffey.com/posts/#2024/05/05/indieweb-ftw
#newpost #indieweb #posse
🎥▶️ Now watching:
Building Bridges to the Fediverse, with Ryan Barrett
Good to hear the whole reasoning behind trying to build bridges between Fediverse and Bluesky and dealing with “social media culture clashes” as told by Ryan Barnett. I’ve gotten to talk to him a lot over the past few years of my #indieweb but never really got to hear Ryan speak conversationally about some of the nuances he has to work through not only systematically but empathetically and humanly too.
Building Bridges to the Fediverse, with Ryan Barrett from Flipboard Dot Social1 hour 1 minute 33 secondsThe beauty of an open system is that anyone can build on top of it and try to make it a better place. In the fediverse, software engineer Ryan Barrett is one such developer. Ryan’s been building so…
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🗣️💬👍🚀♻️ ➡️https://starrwulfe.xyz/x/2s_6
#fediverse #Indieweb #nowwatching #peertube #podcast