I have put a lot of thought into deliberately shifting¹ metaphors², often in the context of the #indieweb³. One goal is to replace use of violent or divisive metaphors with actively constructive, cooperative, or joyful alternatives, like:

* gardening/farming e.g. digital garden
* biology/ecology/nature e.g. digital ecosystem
* cooking/baking e.g. eat your own cooking
* toolmaking, clothing making, other useful crafts e.g. sew what you want
* music, dancing, painting, and other expressive crafts e.g. remixing
* travel, navigation, maps e.g. information superhighway
* games, sports, running, e.g. surfing the net¹⁰

Some of these areas are well developed (sports metaphors), others are obvious or emergent from various IndieWeb efforts like our principles¹¹, and others could use brainstorming and experimentation.

Thoughts and words, whether spoken or written, influence each other in reinforcement feedback loops. Consciously choosing one can impact the other and vice versa.

Especially in messages to others or our even future selves, words and metaphors communicate and reinforce our values and thus merit care in their invention¹² and usage.

What are metaphors you have found constructive, cooperative, or joyful?

References:

¹ https://tantek.com/2023/132/t1/agenda-gardening-metaphors
² https://tantek.com/2023/023/t3/
³ https://tantek.com/2023/022/t1/indieweb-eat-what-you-cook
https://indieweb.org/digital_garden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_ecosystem
https://indieweb.org/cook_what_you_want
https://indieweb.org/events/2020-08-19-hwc-west-coast#sewing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remix_culture#Analog_era
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_superhighway
¹⁰ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_metaphors#Functional_metaphors
¹¹ https://indieweb.org/principles
¹² https://tantek.com/2024/180/b1/responsible-inventing

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I have put a lot of thought into deliberately shifting¹ metaphors², often in the context of the #indieweb³. One goal is to replace use of violent or divisive metaphors with actively constructive, cooperative, or joyful alternatives, like:

* gardening/farming e.g. digital garden
* biology/ecology/nature e.g. digital ecosystem
* cooking/baking e.g. eat your own cooking
* toolmaking, clothing making, other useful crafts e.g. sew what you want
* music, dancing, painting, and other expressive crafts e.g. remixing
* travel, navigation, maps e.g. information superhighway
* games, sports, running, e.g. surfing the net¹⁰

Some of these areas are well developed (sports metaphors), others are obvious or emergent from various IndieWeb efforts like our principles¹¹, and others could use brainstorming and experimentation.

Thoughts and words, whether spoken or written, influence each other in reinforcement feedback loops. Consciously choosing one can impact the other and vice versa.

Especially in messages to others or our even future selves, words and metaphors communicate and reinforce our values and thus merit care in their invention¹² and usage.

What are metaphors you have found constructive, cooperative, or joyful?

References:

¹ https://tantek.com/2023/132/t1/agenda-gardening-metaphors
² https://tantek.com/2023/023/t3/
³ https://tantek.com/2023/022/t1/indieweb-eat-what-you-cook
https://indieweb.org/digital_garden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_ecosystem
https://indieweb.org/cook_what_you_want
https://indieweb.org/events/2020-08-19-hwc-west-coast#sewing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remix_culture#Analog_era
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_superhighway
¹⁰ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_metaphors#Functional_metaphors
¹¹ https://indieweb.org/principles
¹² https://tantek.com/2024/180/b1/responsible-inventing

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I have put a lot of thought into deliberately shifting¹ metaphors², often in the context of the #indieweb³. One goal is to replace use of violent or divisive metaphors with actively constructive, cooperative, or joyful alternatives, like:* gardening/farming e.g. digital gardenâ´* biology/ecology/nature... tantek.com

🍂 Autumn Memories | And So It Goes… https://krueger.ink/autumn-memories/

#Blog #IndieWeb #Autumn

Marginalia Search ist eine spezialisierte Suchmaschine, die darauf ausgelegt ist, Nutzer in die weniger bekannten Ecken des Internets zu führen und sich von dem alltäglichen, kommerziellen Inhalt abzuwenden, der heutzutage vorherrschend ist. Ziel ist es, Nutzer wieder mit persönlichen Websites und längeren Texten in Verbindung zu bringen und den Entdeckungsaspekt gegenüber traditionellen faktenbasierten Suchen zu betonen.

https://search.marginalia.nu/

#search #searchengine #indieweb

A response to @birming's blog post, that came just at the right time.

https://dominikhofer.me/re-blog-like-a-painter

#indieweb #blogging

from links, adventure

_*TEST for new meta tag*_

**BPJ: The Chocolate Path**

Brissle Proper Job series issue #1 The Chocolate Path. A beautiful walkway that runs down the New Cut affording a brief respite from city life

https://barrd.net/beautiful-day-on-the-chocolate-path/

#Indieweb #Bristol

🔖 Bookmarked Fighting for our web (https://www.citationneeded.news/fighting-for-our-web/)

> Do you remember the first time you felt like the web was magic?

Transcript and recording from Molly White's opening talk at XOXO 2024

🔥 https://flamedfury.com/bookmarks/fighting-for-our-web/

#web #smallweb #socialweb #indieweb #openweb

Riccardo invited us to discuss multilingualism in a global web for this month's IndieWeb Carnival.

I wrote down my thoughts on my relationship with languages and why I blog in English.

https://hamatti.org/posts/multilingualism-in-a-global-web/

#IndieWeb #IndieWebCarnival #blogging #multilingualism

You can use hash mode with Vue-router on a GitHub Page site, but it hurts SEO and seems to break Webmentions. History mode fixes Webmentions and the SEO issues but doesn’t work on GitHub Pages. There might be a hack using a 404.html page, but I’d hate to resort to a hack.

#Vue #Webmentions #GithubPages

Há alguns barulhos tristes na vida. O da garrafa térmica vazia de café é um deles.

#IndieWeb #POSSE

https://ilogi.co/posts/barulhos/

🤖 I posted to my general interest blog.
#Weeknotes #IndieWeb
https://mihobu.lol/weeknotes-week-40-2024

Estou tentando formar meu "digital garden" mas essa questão de IA ir varrendo a internet e devorando todo nosso conteúdo me incomoda. Existe alguma forma de bloquear isso?

Vi pessoas falando de modificar uma meta tag, mas isso é respeitado?

#indieweb #openweb #digitalgarden

How to publish and consume WebSub
Minimum viable implementation suitable for IndieWeb publishing.

#IndieWeb #HowTo #WebSub #PuSH #feeds

the more I explore the #indieweb and #openweb and the deeper I get into studying #tech, the more appealing #webdev becomes. It seems like a good crossover between tech and #art (my previous Associate's degree). To one day facilitate open/indie web projects would be super cool.

I'll probably have to wait until I get a proper #IT job before I go back for a full degree though

I love #SpaceHey it's so much fun but the engagement is low. Everyone go make a profile now and unleash your inner 2007 emo kid. They have sat dormant for too long. #indieweb #openweb

I remember saying something about this being a sus behavior, even for personal domains within the #IndieWeb and the most rebuff given was that "donations were good enough".

So many gTLDs and a chance to not support this shit ... https://every.to/p/the-disappearance-of-an-internet-domain

"Organizations like Indivisible and hundreds of LGBTQ rights organizations have stepped back from posting on X altogether, with Indivisible encouraging all progressives to leave or at least do an 'X-last strategy'."

#HeidiLiFeldman, 2024

https://wedistribute.org/2024/09/the-revolution-will-be-federated/

Great start! But I'd love to see this broaden to a 'DataFarm-last strategy'. Or as the #IndieWeb folks have been calling it for years, POSSE;

Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere;

https://indieweb.org/POSSE

#IndieWeb #POSSE

Time for our own #indieweb #website #webdev to get a project page as well!

In this case, to track the upcoming finishing of the site rewrite, as well as any future developments.
Currently this is mainly backend work, to finish the rewrite of the PHP Database adapters, but soon this shall include features such as #webmentions comments :D

https://lucidragons.de/projects/dragon_fire?referer=mastodon