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#WorldBlogDay #blogs #blogging #indieweb

The #WorldBlogDay is also a good opportunity to rerun an older poll I posted last year:

Do you blog?

#blogs #blog #blogging #indieweb #poll

Yes!
I used to, not anymore
Taking a short break
Not really

@stefan thanks for this! I didn't know about this date and I think the fediverse is the best place to celebrate World Blog Day šŸŽ‰ all in the spirit of bringing back home our data and our works šŸ” the fusion of 2 blogs of mine into one has been finished yesterday, maybe just in time for World Blog Day without even knowing it šŸ˜

#worldBlogDay #indieWeb

So, does anyone celebrate World Blog Day? Not seeing a ton of information about it online, other than that it started in 2005 and the date was chosen because 31/08 spells "blog" (3108).

#blogs #WorldBlogDay #internet #indieweb

It's been over a year since I last wrote one of these, so I did a little update on where my site is at in relation to the #indieweb.

https://www.joelotter.com/posts/2024/08/indieweb/

A bit of a nerdier post this time: How I setup my VPS (a guide for me that might help you as well šŸ˜‡)

https://dominikhofer.me/setup-secure-vps

#indieweb #selfhosting #vps

Has the IndieWeb become discourse again? - Marty McGuire

Has the IndieWeb become discourse again? - Marty McGuire #indieweb

https://martymcgui.re/2024/08/29/141602/

In The Margins #newsletter no 2:

What differentiates a writer from someone who writes? What makes a blogger? What happens when people you know IRL start reading you blog?

More questions, thoughts and lots of #smallweb links in this week's edition. Available to read with no ads, tracking or nonsense:

https://mikegrindle.com/newsletter/itm-2

#neocities #blogging #indieweb

@zakb no worries! I’m right up there with forgetting about the ā€œtechā€ and enjoying the indie web as the websites and friends we make along the way #indieweb

AH! I just figured out how to install a plugin on my blog to make external links safer and changed it to include noopener and nofollow. i don't know what i'm doing but it's working! what?! do i know what i'm doing? no way! what?! no way sounds fake

#blogging #eleventy #11ty #indieweb

šŸ”– Bookmarked Hope for the web | James' Coffee Blog (https://jamesg.blog/2024/08/29/hope-for-the-web/)

James shares his hope for the web.

šŸ”„ https://flamedfury.com/bookmarks/hope-for-the-web-or-james-coffee-blog/

##web ##smallweb ##indieweb

Thanks to Matthew for reading my post on recent IndieWeb discourse and adding a new section with his responses and notifying me about it via email.

There are certainly a number of things in Matthew’s response that tempt me to respond, but I’d like to focus on this:

I am, nevertheless, a little annoyed by the exhortation to ā€œtalk with usā€. What does it look like I’m doing over here, anyway? Oh, no, it’s not good enough to post one’s opinion on the web. I’m supposed to use one of the IndieWeb’s chats, either IRC, Slack, or Discord. […] I am already talking with you. I’m doing it here, on my own website for all to see, in the best IndieWeb tradition. And you are talking to me if you quote me on your own website or email me.

I don’t consider my post a reply to Matthew’s post. I do not see his post as an invitation to conversation. I read it as a ā€œtakeā€ - an opinion piece intended to make the reader feel a certain way and then close the topic, complete with clickbait headline.

I shouldn’t have to point out that bloggers-blogging-at-bloggers has a long history of unproductive conversation. Reducing the impact of unproductive conversations is part is why there’s not an IndieWeb mailing list. It’s easy in these formats to go hard on the abstract, and to spend time constructing arguments instead of asking questions.

That’s not to say that posts can’t inspire change. In the past day or so indieweb.org/discuss has been updated to mention right in the opening sentence that the IRC, web, Slack, and Discord chats are all bridged. Discussions have also kicked up (not for the first time) around making the homepage more welcoming, focusing on principles first, etc.

Those changes are being decided in the real-time chat, where you can meet and talk with the individuals (all volunteers!) who make up the IndieWeb community. I reckon it beats trying to reverse-engineer that community from a wiki.

Part 1 of my little "manifesto" is almost ready. Is it good? No. Is it unique? Also no. Is it sincere? Yes.
It's a mishmash of Buddhist, anarchist and humanist thought.
An inspirations was https://youtu.be/TWVmcuqpIB0 check it out as a preview. Also add http://mycabinetofcuriosities.com to your RSS or microformat reader for the update.
#writing #nonfiction #politics #religion #ecology #humanism #buddhism #zen #leftism #anarchism #communism #degrowth #revolution #paultillich #indieweb

Raw dog the open web!

In our current digital landscape, where a corporate algorithm tells us what to read, watch, drink, eat, wear, smell like, and sound like, human curation of the web is an act of revolution. A simple list of hyperlinks published under a personal domain name is subversive.

#indieweb #personal #publishing #curation #sharing #linking

Tantek Ƈelik blogged about IndieWebCamp Portland:

We wrapped up with our usual Create Day Demos session, live streamed for remote attendees to see as well. Lots of great demos of things people built, designed, removed, cleaned-up, documented, and blogged! Everyone still at the camp showed something on their personal site!

I miss IndieWebCamp. Don’t think I’ve attended one since we hosted in Austin a couple weeks before COVID hit.

I'm working on updating her #website, https://mskiersten.com with a full page dedicated to the album and how to listen, but the changes aren't quite ready to go yet šŸ˜…

Feel free to check it out anyway and check back later for a shiny new page!

And please #boost the above post for visibility if you'd like to spread the word!

#PersonalSites #Hugo #smallweb #indieweb #webdev

New blog post šŸ“°

I’ve owned several AppleTV models since the first generation. But as my current devices stop getting updated, I’m not sure I want to keep purchasing them.

I’ve also had Google’s devices but only on the dumb TV’s my family doesn’t use. They are stuck in the Apple ecosystem for now.

#blog #smallweb #indieweb

https://basic.bearblog.dev/appletv-and-me/

Avete mai voluto un vostro piccolo spazio sul web, più statico, fuori dall'urgenza social? Ho scritto una piccola guida per chi è alle prime armi!

«Come creare un proprio sito web carino piccino picciò»

https://serime.net/blog/posts/2024-08-30-tutorial-sito.html

#indieweb #smallweb #neocities #nekoweb