Fighting for our web - A talk from XOXO #internet #indieweb #protocolsnotplatforms https://www.luisquintanilla.me/feed/fighting-for-our-web-white?utm_medium=feed
Figured I should make another #introduction post since I've moved to a new instance.
Hello! My name is Xavier. I'm 26 years old. I started out on mastodon.social; found a lot of great mutuals but got sick of the spam so I started looking for a smaller general purpose instance and found this one here. I'm also active on SpaceHey! I think more people should join. Link is on my profile.
I'm currently studying #IT. I'm a big #Linux and #FOSS guy, and I am loving discovering all these #openweb and #indieweb projects. My ride-or-die daily driver is an L13 Yoga #Thinkpad running #LinuxMint.
I also hold an Associate's in #Art. I focus on #abstractart & #figurativeart / #figuredrawing. I started out doing #mixedmedia #traditionalart and have pivoted to #digitalart the past couple years.
I've been writing fanfiction since I was a kid and currently write in a fandom with moderate acclaim. Mutuals can DM for my AO3 as long as we're tight and you make a blood pact of secrecy/sign an NDA. I also write poetry and I am considering dabbling in original fiction, as well as developing a personal #blog.
Brief miscellaneous info: I'm #bisexual, #vegan, #Buddhist. I live in #Illinois. Striving towards #zerowaste. Happily married. Politics are solidly liberal to center-left. I'll try to tag all #uspol stuff.
I generally follow back 18+ accounts.
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🤖 I posted to my general interest blog.
#Baseball #IndieWeb
https://mihobu.lol/jackie-odowd-comforts-her-son
#indieweb #surfandoweb
Criei minha página /now só agora:
https://sol2070.in/now
Pra quem tem blog, pode ser legal. Tem esse agregador (em inglês) também, que explica a parada, junto com o /about e /ideas :
https://aboutideasnow.com/
Front End Study Hall in 10 minutes. https://events.indieweb.org/2024/10/front-end-study-hall-012-BnmYHaqAF11F #IndieWeb #WebDev
I'm having trouble finding things to get excited about in the modern tech industry - but I'm still excited about the web. https://werd.io/2024/it-turns-out-im-still-excited-about-the-web
This talk by @anildash is over 10 years old, but still remains relevant. The issues he raises have been even more exacerbated, thanks to platforms walling off their user's content from the open web such that they can sell it to "AI" companies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KKMnoTTHJk
#IndieWeb #SmolWeb #Blogging #OpenWeb
“When I want information, like the real stuff, I go to forums. Over the years, forums did not really get smaller, so much as the rest of the internet just got bigger.”
https://aftermath.site/best-active-forums-internet-today has a long list of active forums covering many different topics.
I used to really like forums but I’m no longer active in any. I’m tempted to join some
Let's trade web buttons :) Here's mine! It's for https://rustredriver.com. Send me yours and I'll collect it for a small zone at the bottom of my homepage.
#smallweb #indieweb #buttons #webdev
🐶 The Weight of a Bark | And So It Goes… https://krueger.ink/the-weight-of-a-bark/
webmaster update
been a long time huh?
anyways, here’s what’s new on my website:
also, the long awaited blogpost: it’s been a month since my move to Netherlands, you can now read some of my thoughts on it here: https://hofnarretje.eu/blog/netherlands
as always, please boost this post. and consider signing the guestbook if you pay a visit.
i will be adding more things (maybe an RSS feed?) so pls stay tuned, thanks
Getting there! It looks terrible for now BUT it's a mobile-friendly expando-menu without any Javascript whatsoever, for the up-and-coming static version of my web site!
Next step up I guess is a bit of styling, and maybe even expandable submenus.
We talk here in the Fediverse about the joys of DIY websites, projects, blogs, and the #Indieweb. But as a #Twitch streamer, I'm always impressed with the amazing DIY work being produced and broadcast on that platform. Watching a live stream tonight of #Milton coming ashore in Florida and they have a woman who has a Ph.D. in storm surge hydrology and dynamics as a recurring guest. The rest of the chasers can get pretty excited and derpy, but all are professionals.
Spent all day working on a dark/light mode color scheme picker. Still need to write it up, but it's done and I'm quite pleased with it:
I've got a very rough initial attempt at fetching and displaying webmentions! Please try it out! Easiest way is to interact with this post
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 garden⁴
* biology/ecology/nature e.g. digital ecosystem⁵
* cooking/baking e.g. eat your own cooking⁶
* toolmaking, clothing making, other useful crafts e.g. sew what you want⁷
* music, dancing, painting, and other expressive crafts e.g. remixing⁸
* travel, navigation, maps e.g. information superhighway⁹
* 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
⁴ https://indieweb.org/digital_garden
⁵ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_ecosystem
⁶ https://indieweb.org/cook_what_you_want
⁷ https://indieweb.org/events/2020-08-19-hwc-west-coast#sewing
⁸ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remix_culture#Analog_era
⁹ 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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