@adastra While I only discovered #indieweb literally today and didn't have time to properly explore that rabbit hole, if you're looking for CMS for a static website with FTP only, I have been having great success with https://gohugo.io/ framework. Simple to use, can use .md files for content, and so far it worked well for everything I needed.
It might be required to rebuild the site every time you add contenr, but I think Hugo does support deploy to FTP from the Hugo CLI.
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"html": "<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://geekdom.social/@adastra\">@<span>adastra</span></a></span> While I only discovered <a href=\"https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> literally today and didn't have time to properly explore that rabbit hole, if you're looking for CMS for a static website with FTP only, I have been having great success with <a href=\"https://gohugo.io/\"><span>https://</span><span>gohugo.io/</span><span></span></a> framework. Simple to use, can use .md files for content, and so far it worked well for everything I needed.</p><p>It might be required to rebuild the site every time you add contenr, but I think Hugo does support deploy to FTP from the Hugo CLI.</p>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://geekdom.social/@adastra\"></a>",
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Reading through the #IndieWeb wiki to learn stuff and get inspired and I was feeling pretty good about it for a minute there but every time they show examples of folks doing their thing, it’s always dudes, and almost always white guys in particular. I keep looking for anyone else and they just don’t seem to be there?
It really makes me think that this sort of thing just isn’t for people like me. If it weren’t for the fact that I already know multiple top-notch women propping this thing up (and they are, in fact, how I learned about it), I probably wouldn’t touch this community with a ten foot pole.
Now imagine if I wasn’t white, on top of that
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"html": "<p>Reading through the <a href=\"https://toot.cat/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> wiki to learn stuff and get inspired and I was feeling pretty good about it for a minute there but every time they show examples of folks doing their thing, it\u2019s always dudes, and almost always white guys in particular. I keep looking for anyone else and they just don\u2019t seem to be there?</p><p>It really makes me think that this sort of thing just isn\u2019t for people like me. If it weren\u2019t for the fact that I already know multiple top-notch women propping this thing up (and they are, in fact, how I learned about it), I probably wouldn\u2019t touch this community with a ten foot pole.</p><p>Now imagine if I wasn\u2019t white, on top of that</p>",
"text": "Reading through the #IndieWeb wiki to learn stuff and get inspired and I was feeling pretty good about it for a minute there but every time they show examples of folks doing their thing, it\u2019s always dudes, and almost always white guys in particular. I keep looking for anyone else and they just don\u2019t seem to be there?\n\nIt really makes me think that this sort of thing just isn\u2019t for people like me. If it weren\u2019t for the fact that I already know multiple top-notch women propping this thing up (and they are, in fact, how I learned about it), I probably wouldn\u2019t touch this community with a ten foot pole.\n\nNow imagine if I wasn\u2019t white, on top of that"
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"html": "<p><a href=\"https://masto.ai/tags/Cooking\">#<span>Cooking</span></a> <a href=\"https://masto.ai/tags/Reading\">#<span>Reading</span></a> <a href=\"https://masto.ai/tags/Zines\">#<span>Zines</span></a> <a href=\"https://masto.ai/tags/Empathy\">#<span>Empathy</span></a> <a href=\"https://masto.ai/tags/Curiosity\">#<span>Curiosity</span></a> <a href=\"https://masto.ai/tags/SlowTravel\">#<span>SlowTravel</span></a> <a href=\"https://masto.ai/tags/Octopi\">#<span>Octopi</span></a> <a href=\"https://masto.ai/tags/Creativity\">#<span>Creativity</span></a> <a href=\"https://masto.ai/tags/Feminism\">#<span>Feminism</span></a> <a href=\"https://masto.ai/tags/IndustrialMusic\">#<span>IndustrialMusic</span></a> <a href=\"https://masto.ai/tags/Punk\">#<span>Punk</span></a> <a href=\"https://masto.ai/tags/Art\">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href=\"https://masto.ai/tags/Occult\">#<span>Occult</span></a> <a href=\"https://masto.ai/tags/Humanism\">#<span>Humanism</span></a> <a href=\"https://masto.ai/tags/AntiCapitalism\">#<span>AntiCapitalism</span></a> <a href=\"https://masto.ai/tags/AntiFacism\">#<span>AntiFacism</span></a> <a href=\"https://masto.ai/tags/FuckTrump\">#<span>FuckTrump</span></a> <a href=\"https://masto.ai/tags/FuckNazis\">#<span>FuckNazis</span></a> <a href=\"https://masto.ai/tags/FuckSpotify\">#<span>FuckSpotify</span></a> <a href=\"https://masto.ai/tags/ClimateTech\">#<span>ClimateTech</span></a> <a href=\"https://masto.ai/tags/Design\">#<span>Design</span></a> <a href=\"https://masto.ai/tags/Film\">#<span>Film</span></a> <a href=\"https://masto.ai/tags/Movies\">#<span>Movies</span></a> <a href=\"https://masto.ai/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://masto.ai/tags/IndieMusic\">#<span>IndieMusic</span></a> <a href=\"https://masto.ai/tags/Tacos\">#<span>Tacos</span></a> <a href=\"https://masto.ai/tags/SonoranMexicanFood\">#<span>SonoranMexicanFood</span></a> <a href=\"https://masto.ai/tags/Magazines\">#<span>Magazines</span></a></p>",
"text": "#Cooking #Reading #Zines #Empathy #Curiosity #SlowTravel #Octopi #Creativity #Feminism #IndustrialMusic #Punk #Art #Occult #Humanism #AntiCapitalism #AntiFacism #FuckTrump #FuckNazis #FuckSpotify #ClimateTech #Design #Film #Movies #IndieWeb #IndieMusic #Tacos #SonoranMexicanFood #Magazines"
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Ich habe für den Indieweb Karneval auf Deutsch geschrieben. Das Thema ist Mehrsprachigkeit im Web. Ich hoffe es ins Spanische übersetzen.
https://rossabaker.com/blog/mehrsprachigkeit_im_globalen_web/
#Indieweb #IndiewebCarnival
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"html": "<p>Ich habe f\u00fcr den Indieweb Karneval auf Deutsch geschrieben. Das Thema ist Mehrsprachigkeit im Web. Ich hoffe es ins Spanische \u00fcbersetzen.</p><p><a href=\"https://rossabaker.com/blog/mehrsprachigkeit_im_globalen_web/\"><span>https://</span><span>rossabaker.com/blog/mehrsprach</span><span>igkeit_im_globalen_web/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://social.rossabaker.com/tags/Indieweb\">#<span>Indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.rossabaker.com/tags/IndiewebCarnival\">#<span>IndiewebCarnival</span></a></p>",
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"html": "<p>\ud83e\udd16 I posted to my photography weblog.</p><p><a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/POTD\">#<span>POTD</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/photography\">#<span>photography</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://than-no.photo/potd-2024-10-21\"><span>https://</span><span>than-no.photo/potd-2024-10-21</span><span></span></a></p>",
"text": "\ud83e\udd16 I posted to my photography weblog.\n\n#POTD #IndieWeb #photography\n\nhttps://than-no.photo/potd-2024-10-21"
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"html": "<p>I added a <a href=\"https://jawns.club/tags/webring\">#<span>webring</span></a> to my personal website! It's very much a list, but \"done is better than perfect\"</p><p><a href=\"https://travissouthard.com/blog/building-the-web-i-want-to-see.html\"><span>https://</span><span>travissouthard.com/blog/buildi</span><span>ng-the-web-i-want-to-see.html</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://jawns.club/tags/webdev\">#<span>webdev</span></a> <a href=\"https://jawns.club/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://jawns.club/tags/solarpunk\">#<span>solarpunk</span></a></p>",
"text": "I added a #webring to my personal website! It's very much a list, but \"done is better than perfect\"\n\nhttps://travissouthard.com/blog/building-the-web-i-want-to-see.html\n\n#webdev #indieweb #solarpunk"
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"text": "As regular readers know, I care a lot about growing the open social web: the rapidly-growing decentralized network of interoperable social platforms that includes Mastodon, Threads, Ghost, Flipboard, and many other platforms, both emerging and established. This is for a few reasons, including but not limited to:\n\nSupport for strong communities\nSupport for niche interests and diversity: Smaller, independent communities can flourish without the pressure to appeal to mass audiences, leading to richer, more diverse conversations and interactions. But these aren\u2019t silos: any member from one community can easily follow someone from any other.\n\nCommunity-driven moderation: Instead of top-down moderation, communities set their own rules and guidelines, which can lead to healthier and more relevant interactions. Community health isn\u2019t subject to a single corporation\u2019s policies and motivations.\nBetter developer experience\nAn easier way to build social apps: Shared libraries, tools and protocols let developers get started faster. And developers no longer have to worry about their social products feeling empty: every new product can plug into communities of millions of people.\n\nDeveloper stability: Developers don\u2019t need to ask anyone for permission to build on open social web protocols. Nobody will suddenly turn off the open social web and charge developers to access it: just like the web itself, it\u2019s open and permissionless, forever. The result is a less risky playing field for new entrants.\nRespect for users\nDecentralized governance: Users have more control over their data, identity, and interactions, without reliance on a single corporation or platform.\n\nFreedom from corporate algorithms: No algorithm-driven feeds prioritize ads or engagement-maximizing content, allowing for more authentic and community-driven interaction (and significantly less election interference, for example).\n\nData ownership and portability: Users have greater control over their data and are not at the mercy of corporate interests. The open social web has the potential to connect every social platform, allowing anyone to be in conversation. And users can move from provider to provider at any time without losing their communities.\n\nReduced surveillance: Federated systems are often less focused on advertising and surveillance-based business models, reducing targeted ads and invasive data collection.\n\nA more ethical ecosystem: It\u2019s far easier for developers to build ethical apps that don\u2019t hold user data hostage.\nI\u2019d love to be more involved in helping it grow. Here are some ways I\u2019ve thought about doing that. As always, I\u2019d love to hear what you think.Acting as an advocate between publishers and vendors.Status: I\u2019m already doing this informally.\n\nOpen social web vendors like Mastodon seem to want to understand the needs of news publishers; there are already lots of advantages for news publishers who join the open social web. There\u2019s some need for a go-between to help both groups understand each other.\n\nPublishers need to prove that there\u2019s return on investment on getting involved in any social platform. Mastodon in particular has some analytics-hostile features, including preventing linked websites from knowing where traffic is coming from, and stripping the utm tags that audience teams use to analyze traffic. There\u2019s also no great analytics dashboard and little integration with professional social media tools.\n\nMeanwhile, the open social web already has a highly engaged, intelligent, action-oriented community of early adopters who care about the world around them and are willing to back news publishers they think are doing good work. I\u2019ve done work to prove this, and have found that publishers can easily get more meaningful engagement (subscriptions, donations) on the open social web than on all closed social networks combined. That\u2019s a huge advantage.\n\nBut both groups need to collaborate \u2014 and in the case of publishers, need to want to collaborate. There\u2019s certainly work to do here.Providing tertiary services.Status: I built ShareOpenly, but there\u2019s much more work to do.\n\nThere are a lot of ways a service provider could add value to the open social web.\n\nAutomattic, the commercial company behind WordPress, got its start by providing anti-spam services through a tool called Akismet. Automattic itself is unfortunately not a wonderful example to point to at this moment in time, but the model stands: take an open source product and make it more useful through add-ons.\n\nThere\u2019s absolutely the need for anti-spam and moderation services on the open social web (which are already provided by Independent Federated Trust And Safety, which is a group that deserves to be better-funded).\n\nMy tiny contribution so far is ShareOpenly, a site that provides \u201cshare to \u2026\u201d buttons for websites that are inclusive of Mastodon and other Fediverse platforms. A few sites, like my own blog and Tedium, include ShareOpenly links on posts, and it\u2019s been used to share to hundreds of Mastodon instances. (I don\u2019t track links shared at all, so don\u2019t have stats about that.) But, of course, it could be a lot bigger.\n\nI think there\u2019s potential in anti-spam services in particular: unlike trust and safety, they can largely be automated, and there\u2019s a proven model with Akismet.Rebuilding Known to support the Fediverse \u2014 or contributing to an existing Fediverse platform.Status: I just need more time.\n\nMy publishing platform Known could be rewritten to have a new, faster, cleaner architecture that is Fediverse-first.\n\nIt\u2019s not clear to me what the sustainability model is here: how can I make sure I continue to have the time and resources to work on it? But I do think there\u2019s a lot of potential for it to be useful \u2014 particularly for individual bloggers and smaller publishers \u2014 once it was built.\n\nAnd of course, there are many other open source Fediverse platforms (like Mastodon) that always need extra hands. The question remains: how can I find the time and resources to be able to make those contributions?\n\n(I\u2019ve already tried: funding as a startup, consultancy services, donations, and a paid hosting service. If you\u2019ve got other ideas, I\u2019d love to hear them!)An API engine for the FediverseStatus: idea only, but validated with both experts and potential customers. Would need to be funded.\n\nActivityPub, the underlying protocol underneath the Fediverse, can sometimes be hard to implement. Unlike many web apps, you often need to set up asynchronous queues and process data in potentially expensive ways when both publishing and reading data from other instances.\n\nSo why not abstract all of that away? Here smaller communities and experimental developers can rely on shared infrastructure that handles inboxes and queues automatically behind a simple RESTful API with SDKs in every modern language. Rather than have to build out all that infrastructure to begin with, developers can start with the Fediverse API, saving them a bunch of time and allowing them to focus on their unique idea.\n\nIt would start out with a free tier, allowing experimentation, and then scale up to affordable, use-based billing.\n\nAdd-on services could provide the aforementioned anti-spam, and there could be plugins from services like IFTAS in order to provide real human moderation for communities that need it.\n\nSuddenly, developers can build a fully Fediverse-compatible app in an afternoon instead of in weeks or months, and know that they don\u2019t need to be responsible for maintaining its underlying ActivityPub infrastructure.A professional open social network (Fediverse VIP)Status: idea only, but validated with domain experts.\n\nA first-class social network with top-tier UX and UI design, particularly around onboarding and discovery, built explicitly to be part of the Fediverse. The aim is to be the destination for anyone who wants to join the Fediverse for professional purposes \u2014 or if they simply don\u2019t know what other instance to join.\n\nThere is full active moderation and trust and safety for all users. Videos are supported out of the box. Images all receive automatic alt text generation by default (or you can specify your own). There is a first-class app across all mobile platforms, and live search for events, TV shows, sports, and so on. Posts can easily be embedded on third-party sites.\n\nYou can break out long-form posts from shorter posts, allowing you to read stories from Ghost and other platforms that publish long-form text to the Fediverse.\n\nIf publishers and brands join Fediverse VIP, profiles of their employees can be fully branded and be associated with their domains. A paid tier offers full analytics (in contrast in particular to Mastodon, which offers almost none) and scheduled posts, as well as advanced trust and safety features for journalists and other users from sensitive organizations. Publishers can opt to syndicate full-content feeds into the Fediverse. This becomes the best, safest, most feature-supported and brand-safe way for publishers to share with the hundreds of millions of Fediverse users.\n\nFinally, an enterprise concierge tier allows Fediverse VIP to be deeply customized and integrated with any website or tool, for example to run Fediverse-aware experiments on their own sites, do data research (free for accredited academic institutions and non-profit newsrooms), build new tools that work with Fediverse VIP, or use live feeds of content on TV or at other events.What do you think?Those are some ideas I have. But I\u2019m curious: what do you think would be most effective? Is this even an important goal?\n\nI\u2019d love to hear what you think.",
"html": "<p><img src=\"https://werd.io/file/67158bdb987c5755960192b2/thumb.jpg\" alt=\"A very literal illustration of a construction site\" width=\"1024\" height=\"746\" /></p><p>As regular readers know, I care a lot about growing the open social web: the rapidly-growing decentralized network of interoperable social platforms that includes Mastodon, Threads, Ghost, Flipboard, and many other platforms, both emerging and established. This is for a few reasons, including but not limited to:</p><p><strong>Support for strong communities</strong></p><ul><li>\n<strong>Support for niche interests and diversity:</strong> Smaller, independent communities can flourish without the pressure to appeal to mass audiences, leading to richer, more diverse conversations and interactions. But these aren\u2019t silos: any member from one community can easily follow someone from any other.</li>\n<li>\n<strong>Community-driven moderation:</strong> Instead of top-down moderation, communities set their own rules and guidelines, which can lead to healthier and more relevant interactions. Community health isn\u2019t subject to a single corporation\u2019s policies and motivations.</li>\n</ul><p><strong>Better developer experience</strong></p><ul><li>\n<strong>An easier way to build social apps:</strong> Shared libraries, tools and protocols let developers get started faster. And developers no longer have to worry about their social products feeling empty: every new product can plug into communities of millions of people.</li>\n<li>\n<strong>Developer stability:</strong> Developers don\u2019t need to ask anyone for permission to build on open social web protocols. Nobody will suddenly turn off the open social web and charge developers to access it: just like the web itself, it\u2019s open and permissionless, forever. The result is a less risky playing field for new entrants.</li>\n</ul><p><strong>Respect for users</strong></p><ul><li>\n<strong>Decentralized governance:</strong> Users have more control over their data, identity, and interactions, without reliance on a single corporation or platform.</li>\n<li>\n<strong>Freedom from corporate algorithms:</strong> No algorithm-driven feeds prioritize ads or engagement-maximizing content, allowing for more authentic and community-driven interaction (and significantly less election interference, for example).</li>\n<li>\n<strong>Data ownership and portability:</strong> Users have greater control over their data and are not at the mercy of corporate interests. The open social web has the potential to connect every social platform, allowing anyone to be in conversation. And users can move from provider to provider at any time without losing their communities.</li>\n<li>\n<strong>Reduced surveillance:</strong> Federated systems are often less focused on advertising and surveillance-based business models, reducing targeted ads and invasive data collection.</li>\n<li>\n<strong>A more ethical ecosystem:</strong> It\u2019s far easier for developers to build ethical apps that don\u2019t hold user data hostage.</li>\n</ul><p>I\u2019d love to be more involved in helping it grow. Here are some ways I\u2019ve thought about doing that. As always, I\u2019d love to hear what you think.</p><h3>Acting as an advocate between publishers and vendors.</h3><p><em>Status: I\u2019m already doing this informally.</em></p><p>Open social web vendors like Mastodon seem to want to understand the needs of news publishers; there are already lots of advantages for news publishers who join the open social web. There\u2019s some need for a go-between to help both groups understand each other.</p><p>Publishers need to <em>prove</em> that there\u2019s return on investment on getting involved in any social platform. Mastodon in particular has some analytics-hostile features, including preventing linked websites from knowing where traffic is coming from, and stripping the <code>utm</code> tags that audience teams use to analyze traffic. There\u2019s also no great analytics dashboard and little integration with professional social media tools.</p><p>Meanwhile, the open social web already has a highly engaged, intelligent, action-oriented community of early adopters who care about the world around them and are willing to back news publishers they think are doing good work. I\u2019ve done work to prove this, and have found that publishers can easily get more meaningful engagement (subscriptions, donations) on the open social web than on all closed social networks <em>combined</em>. That\u2019s a huge advantage.</p><p>But both groups need to collaborate \u2014 and in the case of publishers, need to <em>want</em> to collaborate. There\u2019s certainly work to do here.</p><h3>Providing tertiary services.</h3><p><em>Status: I built <a href=\"https://werd.io/2024/share-openly\">ShareOpenly</a>, but there\u2019s much more work to do.</em></p><p>There are a lot of ways a service provider could add value to the open social web.</p><p>Automattic, the commercial company behind WordPress, got its start by providing anti-spam services through a tool called <a href=\"https://akismet.com/\">Akismet</a>. Automattic itself is unfortunately not a wonderful example to point to <a href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/17/24272867/automattic-employee-buyout-wordpress-drama\">at this moment in time</a>, but the model stands: take an open source product and make it more useful through add-ons.</p><p>There\u2019s absolutely the need for anti-spam and moderation services on the open social web (which are already provided by <a href=\"https://about.iftas.org/\">Independent Federated Trust And Safety</a>, which is a group that deserves to be better-funded).</p><p>My tiny contribution so far is <a href=\"https://shareopenly.org\">ShareOpenly</a>, a site that provides \u201cshare to \u2026\u201d buttons for websites that are inclusive of Mastodon and other Fediverse platforms. A few sites, like <a href=\"https://werd.io\">my own blog</a> and <a href=\"https://tedium.co/\">Tedium</a>, include ShareOpenly links on posts, and it\u2019s been used to share to hundreds of Mastodon instances. (I don\u2019t track links shared at all, so don\u2019t have stats about that.) But, of course, it could be a lot bigger.</p><p>I think there\u2019s potential in anti-spam services in particular: unlike trust and safety, they can largely be automated, and there\u2019s a proven model with Akismet.</p><h3>Rebuilding Known to support the Fediverse \u2014 or contributing to an existing Fediverse platform.</h3><p><em>Status: I just need more time.</em></p><p><a href=\"https://werd.io/2024/revisiting-known\">My publishing platform Known</a> could be rewritten to have a new, faster, cleaner architecture that is Fediverse-first.</p><p>It\u2019s not clear to me what the sustainability model is here: how can I make sure I continue to have the time and resources to work on it? But I do think there\u2019s a lot of potential for it to be useful \u2014 particularly for individual bloggers and smaller publishers \u2014 once it <em>was</em> built.</p><p>And of course, there are many other open source Fediverse platforms (like Mastodon) that always need extra hands. The question remains: how can I find the time and resources to be able to make those contributions?</p><p>(I\u2019ve already tried: funding as a startup, consultancy services, donations, and a paid hosting service. If you\u2019ve got other ideas, I\u2019d love to hear them!)</p><h3>An API engine for the Fediverse</h3><p><em>Status: idea only, but validated with both experts and potential customers. Would need to be funded.</em></p><p>ActivityPub, the underlying protocol underneath the Fediverse, can sometimes be hard to implement. Unlike many web apps, you often need to set up asynchronous queues and process data in potentially expensive ways when both publishing and reading data from other instances.</p><p>So why not abstract all of that away? Here smaller communities and experimental developers can rely on shared infrastructure that handles inboxes and queues automatically behind a simple RESTful API with SDKs in every modern language. Rather than have to build out all that infrastructure to begin with, developers can start with the Fediverse API, saving them a bunch of time and allowing them to focus on their unique idea.</p><p>It would start out with a free tier, allowing experimentation, and then scale up to affordable, use-based billing.</p><p>Add-on services could provide the aforementioned anti-spam, and there could be plugins from services like IFTAS in order to provide real human moderation for communities that need it.</p><p>Suddenly, developers can build a fully Fediverse-compatible app in an afternoon instead of in weeks or months, and know that they don\u2019t need to be responsible for maintaining its underlying ActivityPub infrastructure.</p><h3>A professional open social network (Fediverse VIP)</h3><p><em>Status: idea only, but validated with domain experts.</em></p><p>A first-class social network with top-tier UX and UI design, particularly around onboarding and discovery, built explicitly to be part of the Fediverse. The aim is to be the destination for anyone who wants to join the Fediverse for professional purposes \u2014 or if they simply don\u2019t know what other instance to join.</p><p>There is full active moderation and trust and safety for all users. Videos are supported out of the box. Images all receive automatic alt text generation by default (or you can specify your own). There is a first-class app across all mobile platforms, and live search for events, TV shows, sports, and so on. Posts can easily be embedded on third-party sites.</p><p>You can break out long-form posts from shorter posts, allowing you to read stories from Ghost and other platforms that publish long-form text to the Fediverse.</p><p>If publishers and brands join Fediverse VIP, profiles of their employees can be fully branded and be associated with their domains. A paid tier offers full analytics (in contrast in particular to Mastodon, which offers almost none) and scheduled posts, as well as advanced trust and safety features for journalists and other users from sensitive organizations. Publishers can opt to syndicate full-content feeds into the Fediverse. This becomes the best, safest, most feature-supported and brand-safe way for publishers to share with the hundreds of millions of Fediverse users.</p><p>Finally, an enterprise concierge tier allows Fediverse VIP to be deeply customized and integrated with any website or tool, for example to run Fediverse-aware experiments on their own sites, do data research (free for accredited academic institutions and non-profit newsrooms), build new tools that work with Fediverse VIP, or use live feeds of content on TV or at other events.</p><h3>What do you think?</h3><p>Those are some ideas <em>I</em> have. But I\u2019m curious: what do you think would be most effective? Is this even an important goal?</p><p>I\u2019d love to hear what you think.</p>"
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Ben Werdmuller has several ideas for building on the fediverse, including add-on services, SDKs, rebuilding his platform Known, and a “fediverse VIP” for professionals.
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What #rss readers are good? Don't want to create an account anywhere so that probably means desktop. #RSSReader #IndieWeb
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Owning an Internet domain is probably one of the best things I've done to help me with my self-expression to the world.
I feel freedom to do most of the things I want to do there, I truthfully feel like I have my own place on the Internet.
And sure, it might feel like screaming to a void, probably. But it doesn't matter this much to me, I'm not doing it for views, not doing it for money, I'm not constrained by those things. It's me saying - hey, I exist here. I'm my own person, with my garbage opinions, weird quirks, wants and needs.
Sometimes it's a card I can pass to someone, sometimes it's a place where I can vent, sometimes it's a place where I can have fun.
Also, I feel very small but visible return to glory of individual domains (hopefully leading to small websites?) with AT Protocol approach for verifying domains to be part of a handle or authorization using domains like on Owncast. Perhaps this will spread further? Time will tell.
#indieweb
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Quick shout to Virtual Curiosities on it's #rss series. If you missed it, I have the list posted at https://the-rss-review.surge.sh/blog/2024/10/20/virtual-curiosities-rss-series/
You definitely follow Virtual Curiosities via RSS! It has great content!
#rssfeed #rssclients #indieweb #smallweb #socialmedia #technology
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"html": "<p><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/Business\">#<span>Business</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/Guides\">#<span>Guides</span></a><br />You should be using an RSS reader \u00b7 \u201cRSS will nudge the whole internet towards a better state.\u201d <a href=\"https://ilo.im/160hnd\"><span>https://</span><span>ilo.im/160hnd</span><span></span></a></p><p>_____<br /><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialMedia\">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/Publishing\">#<span>Publishing</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/Subscription\">#<span>Subscription</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/WebFeed\">#<span>WebFeed</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/Syndication\">#<span>Syndication</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/RSS\">#<span>RSS</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/SmallWeb\">#<span>SmallWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/BigWeb\">#<span>BigWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/Enshittification\">#<span>Enshittification</span></a></p>",
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It's that time again. Firing up the stream to do some coding on Neopoligen for building personal websites
#LiveStream #LiveCoding #Rust #IndieWeb
https://www.twitch.tv/theidofalan
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"html": "<p>\"I can navigate to places that I'm not supposed to go\" <a href=\"https://embedded.substack.com/p/elan-ullendorff-how-did-you-find-me\"><span>https://</span><span>embedded.substack.com/p/elan-u</span><span>llendorff-how-did-you-find-me</span></a><br /><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/smallweb\">#<span>smallweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>",
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Hello, Mastodon dot social! I’m Sam and I make a couple little apps on #iOS and I build websites
I’m most active over @countablenewt@allthingstech.social but I figured I would try and see if I can meet some more people by also being active on a few other instances! I look forward to connecting with everyone!
Over the next few days I’ll get around to verifying this account on my sites and all that and figure out the best way to get everything all connected
#technology #socialmedia #indieweb
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https://cobysher.dev/blog/goodbye-webmentions
removed #webmentions from my #blog and wrote a little about why and what i want to do next for my personal site and obsidian-diy-sync
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J'ai commencé mon guide d'adoption du #RSS pour les non-initié|es! Le voilà, il est orange, il est simple comme tout, et il n'est vraiment pas fini!
https://garden.delyo.be/adopter-le-rss/
#indieweb #web0 #decentralisation
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"text": "I described using my feed reader like this:\n\n\n I would hate if catching up on RSS feeds felt like catching up on email.\n\n\nInstead it\u2019s like this:\n\n\n When I open my RSS reader to catch up on the feeds I\u2019m subscribed to, it doesn\u2019t feel like opening my email client. It feels more like opening a book.\n\n\nIt also feels different to social media. Like Lucy Bellwood says:\n\n\n I have a richer picture of the group of people in my feed reader than I did of the people I regularly interacted with on social media platforms like Instagram.\n\n\nThere\u2019s also the blessed lack of any algorithm:\n\n\n Because blogs are much quieter than social media, there\u2019s also the ability to switch off that awareness that Someone Is Always Watching.\n\n\nCory Doctorow has been praising the merits of RSS:\n\n\n This conduit is anti-lock-in, it works for nearly the whole internet. It is surveillance-resistant, far more accessible than the web or any mobile app interface.\n\n\nLike Lucy, he emphasises the lack of algorithm:\n\n\n By default, you\u2019ll get everything as it appears, in reverse-chronological order.\n \n Does that remind you of anything? Right: this is how social media used to work, before it was enshittified. You can single-handedly disenshittify your experience of virtually the entire web, just by switching to RSS, traveling back in time to the days when Facebook and Twitter were more interested in showing you the things you asked to see, rather than the ads and boosted content someone else would pay to cram into your eyeballs.\n\n\nThe only algorithm at work in my feed reader\u2014or on Mastodon\u2014is good old-fashioned serendipity, when posts just happened to rhyme or resonate. Like this morning, when I read this from Alice:\n\n\n There is no better feeling than walking along, lost in my own thoughts, and feeling a small hand slip into mine. There you are. Here I am. I love you, you silly goose.\n\n\nAnd then I read this from Denise\n\n\n I pass a mother and daughter, holding hands. The little girl is wearing a sequinned covered jacket. She looks up at her mother who says \u201c\u2026And the sun\u2019s going to come out and you\u2019re just going to shine and shine and shine.\u201d",
"html": "<p>I described <a href=\"https://adactio.com/journal/18322\">using my feed reader</a> like this:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>I would hate if catching up on RSS feeds felt like catching up on email.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Instead it\u2019s like this:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>When I open my RSS reader to catch up on the feeds I\u2019m subscribed to, it doesn\u2019t feel like opening my email client. It feels more like opening a book.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>It also feels different to social media. <a href=\"https://lucybellwood.com/noodling-in-the-dark/\">Like Lucy Bellwood says</a>:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>I have a richer picture of the group of people in my feed reader than I did of the people I regularly interacted with on social media platforms like Instagram.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>There\u2019s also the blessed lack of any algorithm:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>Because blogs are much quieter than social media, there\u2019s also the ability to switch off that awareness that Someone Is Always Watching.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/16/keep-it-really-simple-stupid/#read-receipts-are-you-kidding-me-seriously-fuck-that-noise\">Cory Doctorow has been praising the merits of RSS</a>:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>This conduit is anti-lock-in, it works for nearly the whole internet. It is surveillance-resistant, far more accessible than the web or any mobile app interface.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Like Lucy, he emphasises the lack of algorithm:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>By default, you\u2019ll get everything as it appears, in reverse-chronological order.</p>\n \n <p>Does that remind you of anything? Right: this is how social media used to work, before it was enshittified. You can single-handedly disenshittify your experience of virtually the entire web, just by switching to RSS, traveling back in time to the days when Facebook and Twitter were more interested in showing you the things you <em>asked</em> to see, rather than the ads and boosted content someone else would pay to cram into your eyeballs.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>The only algorithm at work in my feed reader\u2014or on Mastodon\u2014is good old-fashioned serendipity, when posts just happened to rhyme or resonate. Like this morning, when I read <a href=\"https://alicebartlett.co.uk/blog/weaknotes-320\">this from Alice</a>:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>There is no better feeling than walking along, lost in my own thoughts, and feeling a small hand slip into mine. There you are. Here I am. I love you, you silly goose.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>And then I read <a href=\"https://walknotes.com/2024/10/19/14-18-october-2024/\">this from Denise</a></p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>I pass a mother and daughter, holding hands. The little girl is wearing a sequinned covered jacket. She looks up at her mother who says \u201c\u2026And the sun\u2019s going to come out and you\u2019re just going to shine and shine and shine.\u201d</p>\n</blockquote>"
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