A simple technique called “POSSE” offers the best of both worlds: total control over your own work, while still maintaining a presence on third-party social media platforms.
New story in my People series: Lover Boy
I was reminded the other day of this girl back in high school spending the whole day at a theme park just teasing me.
🔖 Bookmarked TechTea - Surfing the Independent Web (https://techtea.io/articles/2024/surfing-independent-web/)
Matthew has a fantastic list of links and tips for surfing the independent web!
🔥 https://flamedfury.com/bookmarks/techtea-surfing-the-independent-web/
🔖 Bookmarked It’s just a blog - Annie (https://anniemueller.com/posts/its-just-a-blog)
Annie thinks about the nature of blogging and the differences to other writing. I used to post the random mundane things going on in my life. I’d love to do that again…
🔖 Bookmarked Do not comment on another website, when you can write on your own (https://disassociated.com/do-not-comment-another-website-when-you-can-write-your-own/)
> I’ve long believed the best way to comment on something you’ve seen here is to either contact me, or, preferably, write a post on your own website.
Me too! I absolutely love a website-to-website reply!
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#web #blogging #smallweb #socialweb #indieweb https://flamedfury.com/bookmarks/do-not-comment-on-another-website-when-you-can-write-on-your-own/
@mihobu I see blog posts as largely but not necessarily completely immutable. Smaller adjustments that don't affect the overall meaning (tyops, minor addendums, fix broken links, etc.) don't really need to bump the date. Larger updates likely warrant a follow-up blog post maybe with the addition of a "follow-up" link to the previous blog post.
Happy Friday!
I have a question for my blogger homies: how do you feel about dates in the path of your blog posts? For example:
/2024/09/here-is-the-slug
If I update content (and the timestamp) then my path changes. Would it be better NOT to have the year and month in the path? Or do you view posts as immutable things that should not change once published? I'm considering eliminating the Y/m part and just having globally unique slugs.
Thoughts?
The latest #indieweb carnival topic got me thinking about burnout, inspiration and play. Also a drawing of a tiger:
This is how I write:
As an online writer, my philosophy is link maximalism; links add another layer to my writing, whether I’m linking to an expansion of a particular idea or another person’s take, providing evidence or citation, or making a joke by juxtaposing text and target. Links reveal personality as much as the text. Linking allows us to stretch our ideas, embedding complexity, acknowledging ambiguity, holding contradictions.
So I made a #BearBlog.
It's called, Web 3.0 Slept With My Wife.
Why? I don't know, man. Why are you asking so many questions.
Anyway, I intend to write short notes about the future of the web. There's a first post up but it's probably not representative of the tone I'll carry through the rest of the way. I want to get weird. We'll see.
This is your irregular reminder to use #WebMention as much as possible.
Notes from today’s Front End Study Hall #indieweb #webdev https://indieweb.org/events/2024-09-26-front-end-study-hall
How I Built My Blog
Really, it’s just WordPress1 + IndieBlocks with most settings enabled. That’s kind of it2. I know. Controversial, eh? ↩︎That exact stack, plus a so-called block theme, would give you a “note” post type, “full” microformats2 support, and Webmention. (And then some. Also, the block theme’s optional, but then you’d have to do with, uh, “less […]
Just trying to get Bridgy to post to Bluesky #indieweb
Meu #blogroll :
https://sol2070.in/sites-recomendados#blogs
Atualizado com os blogs de: @Roneyb @tiffs @daniel @piuvas @cochise @evaristoramosarte , além de várias outras aqui no fedi.
#indieweb #surfandoweb
There'll be a new song coming out next month too. I'll probably mention it here (but other links are available on the page, including an updated RSS feed).
https://robertafidora.com/mailing-list
#MusiciansDay #MailingList #Newsletter #Music #Musician #FediMusic #Musicians #Bandcamp #RSS #RSSFeed #Indie #IndieWeb
Nuevo post:
Pesimismo ilustrado
#tecnologia #sociedad #reflexiones #indieweb #blog #enmiblog
While one of the reasons oft declared for using POSSE is the ability to own your content, I’m less interested in ownership than I am in context. Writing on my own site has very different affordances: I’m not typing into a little box, but writing in a text file. I’m not surrounded by other people’s thinking, but located within my own body of work. As I played with setting this up, I could immediately feel how that would change the kinds of things I would say, and it felt good. Really good. Like putting on a favorite t-shirt, or coming home to my solid, quiet house after a long time away.
Mandy’s writing positively soars and sings in this beautiful piece!