„Kev Quirk answered the question in his blog and I wanted to add my two cents on top. It’s a topic close to my heart as a website owner and personal web advocate. For Kev, the main reason to have a personal site is ownership. When you are only using social sites, you are completely relying on their decisions and whims. A site might go down, change direction, drop features or let people you don’t want to associate with run amok in the platform. All of these are potential reasons for you to lose what makes being on that platform worth while.

Having my own site and publishing my thoughts here, I can decide what gets shown, what is prioritized and what gets a spotlight. Not someone else and their recommendation algorithms. My website is the place where I can point anyone interested to. It’s like my home address, in the web.“

Quelle: Why a personal site rather than social media presence?

Jun 30th, 2024 by Juha-Matti Santala (@hamatti@hamatti.org)

Here an additional link for a post by Matthias Ott about webmentions in his highly recommended serial about own your web:

https://buttondown.email/ownyourweb/archive/issue-14

Here some more infos and thoughts from Matthias Ott about ‚own your web‘:

It looks like I’m not the only one who is unsatisfied with the current state of social media and the Open Web. Many of us share that vision of a Web that lets everyone participate, a Web that is empowering and full of creative ideas, a Web that is home to respectful and welcoming communities, and a Web where people can truly own their work and the content they create and publish. And you know what? Drowned out by the noise on the large, attention-grabbing, enshittificated social networks, that version of the Web still exists. On our personal websites.

Having a personal website in 2023 is a superpower. It’s a place to write, create, explore, and share whatever you like, without limitations. It’s a playground to try out new things, tinker with new technologies, and build something beyond the ordinary. It’s a tool to make yourself heard, to participate in online discourse, create community, and make new friends. And, it’s a place to truly own your content and tell your story. It’s your personal home on the Web.

Now imagine a place where you actually own your content, your connections, and your online identity.

And now, imagine that this place is your personal website, under your own domain name, under your control.

This is the basic idea behind the IndieWeb. The IndieWeb is a community of independent and personal websites and the people behind those sites creating tools that enable a decentralized, people-focused alternative to the corporate web and its social media silos.

The IndieWeb has already been playing a key role in developing many of the tools that make an independent, decentralized network of personal websites possible. This in itself is invaluable. Now it is on all of us to implement more and more of those features into our sites, build even more tools and solutions for the independent web, and help to lower the barrier of entry so that the IndieWeb’s vision of owning your content and online identity will be more accessible to evermore people. Every step we take will change the Web for the better. Because ultimately, the IndieWeb is for everyone.

The next chapter of the IndieWeb awaits and the fight for an independent, open web seems more worthwhile and promising than ever. Tim Berners-Lee once said: “You can make the walled garden very very sweet. But the jungle outside is always more appealing in the long term.”

Let’s make this jungle wild, exciting, and beautiful again.

Imagine, just for a second, a future in which we all have our own websites and that those sites are at the center of everything we do and create online. Wouldn’t it be amazing to be able to collect reactions from other personal websites or large platforms when we publish something on our own sites? And wouldn’t it be exciting if we could actually enable decentralized conversations across our websites, by letting our sites talk to each other?

Well, there is a way to that today: Webmentions. Webmentions are one of the fundamental IndieWeb building blocks and a powerful way to establish rich interactions between websites. As I wrote earlier this year, comments used to be at the heart of the interactions that happened around blogs and personal sites. It’s time to bring them – and the people – back to our sites. Webmentions are a part of that.

https://www.pottbayer.de/2024/07/02/why-a-personal-site-rather-than-social-media-presence/

#DataSovereignty #Decentralization #Indieweb #MatthiasOtt #Ownership #PersonalWebsite #Privacy #SocialMedia

#Business #Findings
Zero-Click Search Study 2024 · “Google continues to send less and less to the open web.” https://ilo.im/15zegr

“Almost 30% of all clicks go to platforms Google owns.”
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#Study #Google #SearchEngine #SEO #OpenWeb #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #Development #WebDev

If you liked I joined Bluesky my feed URL is https://robertkingett.com/feed/ #RSS #IndieWeb #SmallWeb

Maybe one day any URI can represent a Fediverse actor.

In my silly ActivityPub add-on plugin for WordPress, I try to “translate” “#IndieWeb-style” replies (i.e., posts microformatted as replies) to proper ActivityPub replies, a process that involves fetching the remote page with an `Accept: application/activity+json` header (which will fail if they have “Authorized Fetch” enabled), and falling back to some regex with a little WebFinger mixed in (to try and identify “Fediverse” accounts)

Um blog BR ótimo que descobri:
https://deniac.com/
#indieweb

Our community member, Riiku, dove into a research rabbit hole and returned to tell us what he found about using Omnivore with alternative search engines.

https://blog.omnivore.app/p/using-omnivore-with-alternative-search

#opensource #omnivoreapp #productivity #search #indieweb

New #indieweb trick on my part: I'm using Pocket to store the things I'm reading that aren't books, and I've set up an IFTTT recipe to post a read to my site whenever I save something new to Pocket. It seems to be the most accessible way of doing this. I tried with Inoreader, but couldn't figure out how to... acarson.wtf

New #indieweb trick on my part: I'm using Pocket to store the things I'm reading that aren't books, and I've set up an IFTTT recipe to post a read to my site whenever I save something new to Pocket. It seems to be the most accessible way of doing this. I tried with Inoreader, but couldn't figure out how to get IFTTT to just pull from the read pile over there. And since I don't use Pocket for the thing it's intended for anyway, I figured this would work. And I'm pleased to report that it does.

Please don't hype #Ladybird. There is #servo that needs the attention!

@servo (servo.org)

#Web #browser #indieWeb

I'm a big fan of other people's /now pages but haven't created mine yet because I've had so many open questions to figure out.

To get one step closer, I took some time to scope my upcoming /now page.

https://hamatti.org/posts/scoping-the-now/

#blogging #IndieWeb #SlashPages

I am an non-Mastodon user so I feel like using the Mastodon icon would be misleading. Otherwise, I been looking at Fediverse icon to use for my blog so I can link my social media links. What do you think and if you are not fond, what would be better icons to say "I am using Fedi".

#IndieWeb #Blogging

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What a cool idea by @alex to use GitHub Actions and Playwright to automatically take a screenshot of a website on a regular basis and store them in a git repository.

I'll look into doing the same with my site, seeing how it will evolve over the years will be fun.

https://alexwlchan.net/2024/scheduled-screenshots/

#IndieWeb

its still a work in progress but i made a very simple comment section for my https://videos.ofafox.com/ site and i plan to expand it to my games site and maybe more as well.

so now you dont need to be on youtube to leave a comment on my video. however, comments made on my site do require my approval before they are public. i do this because i want to keep comments constructive and keep out spam and hate spewing. but i am open to criticism.

#PersonalSites #indieweb

This will be a nice feature if/when it's opened up to people other than big news publishers, but I'm disappointed that @Mastodon decided to roll their own opengraph meta tag instead of using the existing web standard `link rel="author"`.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/07/highlighting-journalism-on-mastodon/

http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-author

#indieweb #webstandards #microformats #opengraph #journalism

Am I the only one who finds it weird that mastodon has decided to invent a whole new open graph tag for this purpose, rather than use the already moderately widely used rel="author" attribute?

(Apart from the fact that it seems a bit proud to unilaterally claim the fediverse: namespace/prefix for mastodon)

#mastodon #mastoadmin #opengraph #indieweb
https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/112718231305707672

A quick note on cross-posting

In IndieWeb parlance, POSSE means Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere. I like the concept. Today, I’m changing a few things about how I syndicate my content.

All my main feeds (posts, notes, likes) will continue to automatically syndicate to my account over at Micro.blog. Micro.blog is a wonderful platform. While I no longer host my content […]

https://nicks.im/b/71G

#IndieWeb #MicroBlog #ThisSite

@Flipboard @Mastodon Added a comment about it: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/30398#issuecomment-2204184781

It’s sad to not see more cooperation between #Mastodon / #Fediverse and #IndieWeb

The latter is focused on social semantics for the web and the former for social semantics for ActivityPub – when the two overlap they should coordinate – and articles are very much web pages and something the #IndieWeb knows best practices around