This website now federates with ActivityPub and has webmentions

What the title says.

Or, at least, I hope so, as I’m unsure everything is working as it should.

The ActivityPub part I tested myself seems to be all fine, so anyone on Mastodon, Friendica, Pleroma, Pixelfed, and so on, can look up for the user whateverthewindbrings@https://www.whateverthewindbrings.com and follow it to see blog updates directly on their timeline. Any comment made under those posts […]

#activitypub #random #webmention

https://www.whateverthewindbrings.com/this-website-now-federates-with-activitypub-and-has-webmentions/

An obligatory site updates post, featuring a sitemap, new buttons, a feed for every tag, and a blogroll with an auto-generated .opml for your subscribing convenience. #indieweb #11ty #blog

https://nathanupchurch.com/blog/obligatory-site-updates-post/

Post Edited: Why is it again you need to ditch WordPress.com? https://swduncan.com/?p=331 #IndieWeb #WordPress #Wordpresscom

Post Edited: Why is it again you need to ditch WordPress.com? https://swduncan.com/?p=331 #IndieWeb #WordPress #Wordpress.com

#Hivemind #AskFedi: I have been procrastinating looking for a new Registrar. Gandi used to be all about the #indieweb / #indiedev - but it is too big, too corporate now.

Are there good, supportive to #opensource domain registrars I should consider?

Code with poetry, poetry with code.

https://codelit.com

#indieweb #poetry #code

Even though I wrote a little less during September than in previous months, I still managed to publish a few candidates for @birming’s #SeptemBest blogging challenge.

Et voilà, here is my personal winner:

https://dominikhofer.me/septembest-2024

#indieweb #bloggingchallenge

Deciding where to be on the expensive-but-easy vs cheap-but-difficult spectrum is maddening. #wordpress #indieweb #podcasting

The mainstream internet lures us with dopamine, kills our creativity, makes us into sad noisy powerless complainers, expends our time on pointless distraction, buries the pathways to escape... then empties our wallets.

Don't complain. Just leave. Help build the alternative 💪

#Enshittification #indieweb #fediverse #OpenSource #selfhost

YES. This point by @jenniferplusplus is it. There's a very _thin_ line of this that could (should) be expanded on in the #IndieWeb with the use of audiences (here's an example use-case: https://indieweb.org/audience#posting_only_to_a_local_timeline) but not enough people who have the bandwidth to experiment

https://todon.eu/@jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io/113213908462720275

Looks like multi-site is not the way to go. It complicates things quite a bit. Ok. Starting over. Ugh. #wordpress #indieweb

I’ve been working on creative online projects again—literally just for fun, that’s all—and I completed a really simple one. It’s inspired by coming across “interesting” words, or words I have to look up because I don’t know the meaning. Refreshing the page gets you a new word. https://by.georgie.nu/lexeme/ #language #creativeprojects #indieweb

Well that wasn't so bad. I'm a little worried that Google's going to decide that the email api thingy I had to create violates my family-provision google workspace account.

But, I have email working, and sites being defined...soon I'll have to face the giant crevasse that is moving a Wordpress site from one place to another.

Definite internet mogul vibes over here.

#wordpress #google #indieweb

OH, how silly of me! There's a plugin I didn't configure. And, of course, in the monument to capitalism that is the Wordpress Plugin Economy, there is a pro version that makes very easy, and the free pain-bellied-sneetch version that just requires the blood of a virgin and signed visit slip from Google HQ. Forward progress! #wordpress #indieweb #wpmailsmtp (who's probably about to get sued for having WP in their name.

The next #IndieWeb Front End Study Hall will be on October 10. "Share and enjoy" as Sirius Cybernetics Corporation says. https://events.indieweb.org/2024/10/front-end-study-hall-012-BnmYHaqAF11F #CSS #HTML #WebDev

I think I've come to the conclusion that there is no mail server that is connected to the Lightsail instance...no new user email or other admin stuff coming through. #wordpress #indieweb #amazonaws

Just to make it more fun, I decided to pursue the AWS instructions on the Indieweb site. They are out of date. After googling a bit, turns out Amazon has yet another product called Lightsail that allows for a pretty rapid start up of an instance with #wordpress. $7/mo rather than free tier. first 90 days free.

Let's see how many times I have to do this before I get it right!

Nothing puts hair on my palms, screams in my home and poop in my toilet like amateur web administration #indieweb

Ok, after using micro.blog for a while, and learning that it doesn't seem to support tags or publishing tags to Mastodon I've decided otherwise stick with Wordpress for a bit longer, and pursue going back to self-hosting.

I figure self-hosting will give me some insulation from Wordpress.com, allow me to incorporate some of the stuff I've learned about on indieweb.org, and hopefully there is a plugin that will send my post tags to Mastodon as hashtags. #wordpress #indieweb

"A website is, among other things, a container. The shape of that container both constrains and makes possible what goes within it. This is, I think, one of the primary justifications for having your own website. Not just so you can own your stuff (for some meaning of “ownership,” in a culture in which any billionaire can scrape your work without permission and copyright only protects the rich)"
#IndieWeb #SmallWeb
https://robinrendle.com/notes/coming-home/