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        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://werd.social/@ben/113556288437554040",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>\"To me, having my own website, even one I run as a business with my friends, gives me a degree of freedom over my own work that I\u2019ve never had before.\" 100% right. Everyone should have one. <a href=\"https://werd.social/tags/Indieweb\">#<span>Indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://werd.io/2024/for-love-of-god-make-your-own-website\"><span>https://</span><span>werd.io/2024/for-love-of-god-m</span><span>ake-your-own-website</span></a></p>",
        "text": "\"To me, having my own website, even one I run as a business with my friends, gives me a degree of freedom over my own work that I\u2019ve never had before.\" 100% right. Everyone should have one. #Indieweb https://werd.io/2024/for-love-of-god-make-your-own-website"
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    "published": "2024-11-27T18:17:31+00:00",
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Jeremy Keith adactio.com

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    "url": "https://dmv.community/@jcrabapple/113555921299464636",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Women In Metal</p><p><a href=\"https://blog.shrediverse.net/posts/women-in-metal\"><span>https://</span><span>blog.shrediverse.net/posts/wom</span><span>en-in-metal</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://dmv.community/tags/music\">#<span>music</span></a> <a href=\"https://dmv.community/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://dmv.community/tags/smallweb\">#<span>smallweb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Women In Metal\n\nhttps://blog.shrediverse.net/posts/women-in-metal\n\n#music #indieweb #smallweb"
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Manton Reece www.manton.org

I hadn’t noticed this before. New styling for blockquotes on Mastodon. This post started on my blog: Markdown → HTML → ActivityPub → Mastodon. This version of Mastodon is probably deployed widely enough that I can drop the redundant quotes that Micro.blog adds.

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        "html": "<p>I hadn\u2019t noticed this before. New styling for blockquotes on Mastodon. This post started on my blog: Markdown \u2192 HTML \u2192 ActivityPub \u2192 Mastodon. This version of Mastodon is probably deployed widely enough that I can drop the redundant quotes that Micro.blog adds.</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/10/2024/544d631e6e.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of my post with blockquote on Mastodon.\" />",
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://xoxo.zone/@artlung/113555610334010255",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://social.city-of-glass.net/@cidney\">@<span>cidney</span></a></span> <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://mastodon.social/@Alon\">@<span>Alon</span></a></span> <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/2024/Berlin\"><span>https://</span><span>indieweb.org/2024/Berlin</span><span></span></a> is a start maybe? <a href=\"https://xoxo.zone/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://xoxo.zone/tags/berlin\">#<span>berlin</span></a></p>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://mastodon.social/@Alon\"></a>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://social.city-of-glass.net/@cidney\"></a>",
        "text": "@cidney @Alon https://indieweb.org/2024/Berlin is a start maybe? #indieweb #berlin"
    },
    "published": "2024-11-27T15:25:04+00:00",
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        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://social.city-of-glass.net/@cidney/113555509402113470",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Out of curiosity, are there any <a href=\"https://social.city-of-glass.net/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> / homebrew personal site people in Berlin on the fediverse?</p><p>I don't know anyone there except my spouse <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://mastodon.social/@Alon\">@<span>Alon</span></a></span>, and the tech/gamedev scenes (regardless of language) have made me a bit uncomfortable, but hoping to visit again soon.</p>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://mastodon.social/@Alon\"></a>",
        "text": "Out of curiosity, are there any #IndieWeb / homebrew personal site people in Berlin on the fediverse?\n\nI don't know anyone there except my spouse @Alon, and the tech/gamedev scenes (regardless of language) have made me a bit uncomfortable, but hoping to visit again soon."
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    "author": {
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        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://infosec.exchange/@bocan/113555350693039092",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>A November Update!</p><p><a href=\"https://chris.funderburg.me/posts/2024/11/27/november-update/\"><span>https://</span><span>chris.funderburg.me/posts/2024</span><span>/11/27/november-update/</span></a> </p><p><a href=\"https://infosec.exchange/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <br /><a href=\"https://infosec.exchange/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a> <br /><a href=\"https://infosec.exchange/tags/SmallInternet\">#<span>SmallInternet</span></a> <br /><a href=\"https://infosec.exchange/tags/rss\">#<span>rss</span></a></p>",
        "text": "A November Update!\n\nhttps://chris.funderburg.me/posts/2024/11/27/november-update/ \n\n#indieweb \n#blog \n#SmallInternet \n#rss"
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    "published": "2024-11-27T14:19:03+00:00",
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    "_id": "43044740",
    "_source": "8007",
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}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://aus.social/@disassociated/113555144565221520",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Who needs <a href=\"https://aus.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> when there are the <a href=\"https://aus.social/tags/TikTok\">#<span>TikTok</span></a> Awards? 11/10 lulz \ud83d\ude1d</p>",
        "text": "Who needs #IndieWeb when there are the #TikTok Awards? 11/10 lulz \ud83d\ude1d"
    },
    "published": "2024-11-27T13:26:37+00:00",
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        "https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/113/555/144/598/660/575/original/f5131f3b98b55f0f.jpeg"
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    "post-type": "photo",
    "_id": "43044055",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://social.g2od.ch/@rapha3l/113554398279236867",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://republik.social/@republik_magazin\">@<span>republik_magazin</span></a></span> <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://chaos.social/@adfichter\">@<span>adfichter</span></a></span> <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://social.heise.de/@mho\">@<span>mho</span></a></span> <br />Wer von X auf Bluesky wechselt, macht momentan sicher nicht so viel falsch!</p><p>Langfristig ist ein Fediverse Konto besser \"gesch\u00fctzt\" vor unfreundlichen \u00dcbernahmen...</p><p><a href=\"https://www.republik.ch/2024/11/27/auf-zu-neuen-plattformen\"><span>https://www.</span><span>republik.ch/2024/11/27/auf-zu-</span><span>neuen-plattformen</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://social.g2od.ch/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.g2od.ch/tags/indiewebsites\">#<span>indiewebsites</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.g2od.ch/tags/x\">#<span>x</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.g2od.ch/tags/bluesky\">#<span>bluesky</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.g2od.ch/tags/fediverse\">#<span>fediverse</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.g2od.ch/tags/republik\">#<span>republik</span></a></p>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://chaos.social/@adfichter\"></a>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://republik.social/@republik_magazin\"></a>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://social.heise.de/@mho\"></a>",
        "text": "@republik_magazin @adfichter @mho \nWer von X auf Bluesky wechselt, macht momentan sicher nicht so viel falsch!\n\nLangfristig ist ein Fediverse Konto besser \"gesch\u00fctzt\" vor unfreundlichen \u00dcbernahmen...\n\nhttps://www.republik.ch/2024/11/27/auf-zu-neuen-plattformen\n\n#indieweb #indiewebsites #x #bluesky #fediverse #republik"
    },
    "published": "2024-11-27T10:16:50+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "43042439",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://caneandable.social/@WeirdWriter/113553868095955237",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>I started getting into alt media and here\u2019s some highlights. <a href=\"https://robertkingett.com/posts/6667/\"><span>https://</span><span>robertkingett.com/posts/6667/</span><span></span></a> <a href=\"https://caneandable.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "I started getting into alt media and here\u2019s some highlights. https://robertkingett.com/posts/6667/ #IndieWeb"
    },
    "published": "2024-11-27T08:02:00+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "43041557",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nmdyrvkenzvalgp5wfhwo626/post/3lbuv3i2uv227",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>To be clear, it is nice here. To be complete, it is worth having a backup plan too. <a href=\"https://bsky.brid.gy/hashtag/fediverse\">#fediverse</a> <a href=\"https://bsky.brid.gy/hashtag/posse\">#posse</a> <a href=\"https://bsky.brid.gy/hashtag/indieweb\">#indieweb</a> <a href=\"https://www.404media.co/xs-objection-to-the-onion-buying-infowars-is-a-reminder-you-do-not-own-your-social-media-accounts/\">www.404media.co/xs-objection...</a><br /><br /><a href=\"https://www.404media.co/xs-objection-to-the-onion-buying-infowars-is-a-reminder-you-do-not-own-your-social-media-accounts/\">X's Objection to the Onion Buy...</a></p>",
        "text": "To be clear, it is nice here. To be complete, it is worth having a backup plan too. #fediverse #posse #indieweb www.404media.co/xs-objection...\n\nX's Objection to the Onion Buy..."
    },
    "published": "2024-11-26T20:33:26+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "43037444",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://social.lol/@flamed/113551491237074909",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>\ud83d\udd16 Bookmarked The Free Web - The History of the Web (<a href=\"https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/the-free-web/\"><span>https://</span><span>thehistoryoftheweb.com/the-fre</span><span>e-web/</span></a>)</p><p>&gt; Put something on the web. And do it for free.</p><p>Jay Hoffmann shares his motivations for his labour of love newsletter. He does it because he\u2019s in awe of the web and believes in an open web. He encourages everyone to take action to help the open and free web.</p><p>\ud83d\udd25 <a href=\"https://flamedfury.com/bookmarks/the-free-web-the-history-of-the-web/\"><span>https://</span><span>flamedfury.com/bookmarks/the-f</span><span>ree-web-the-history-of-the-web/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/web\">#<span>web</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/smallweb\">#<span>smallweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/socialweb\">#<span>socialweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/openweb\">#<span>openweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/freeweb\">#<span>freeweb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "\ud83d\udd16 Bookmarked The Free Web - The History of the Web (https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/the-free-web/)\n\n> Put something on the web. And do it for free.\n\nJay Hoffmann shares his motivations for his labour of love newsletter. He does it because he\u2019s in awe of the web and believes in an open web. He encourages everyone to take action to help the open and free web.\n\n\ud83d\udd25 https://flamedfury.com/bookmarks/the-free-web-the-history-of-the-web/\n\n#web #indieweb #smallweb #socialweb #openweb #freeweb"
    },
    "published": "2024-11-26T21:57:32+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "43037254",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://xoxo.zone/@artlung/113550971860912330",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>James will be hosting a Web Writer's Workshop on December 3, 2024. It ought to be excellent. <a href=\"https://events.indieweb.org/2024/12/web-writer-s-workshop-online--byqulLiWDGh0\"><span>https://</span><span>events.indieweb.org/2024/12/we</span><span>b-writer-s-workshop-online--byqulLiWDGh0</span></a> <a href=\"https://xoxo.zone/tags/writing\">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href=\"https://xoxo.zone/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> (and his blog is at <a href=\"https://jamesg.blog\"><span>https://</span><span>jamesg.blog</span><span></span></a> )</p>",
        "text": "James will be hosting a Web Writer's Workshop on December 3, 2024. It ought to be excellent. https://events.indieweb.org/2024/12/web-writer-s-workshop-online--byqulLiWDGh0 #writing #indieweb (and his blog is at https://jamesg.blog )"
    },
    "published": "2024-11-26T19:45:27+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "43036012",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://toot.cafe/@JesseSkinner/113550740546397125",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Originally published on my blog:<br /><a href=\"https://www.codingwithjesse.com/blog/how-i-feel-about-ai/\"><span>https://www.</span><span>codingwithjesse.com/blog/how-i</span><span>-feel-about-ai/</span></a></p><p>Subscribe to my newsletter:<br /><a href=\"https://www.codingwithjesse.com/newsletter/\"><span>https://www.</span><span>codingwithjesse.com/newsletter</span><span>/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://toot.cafe/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href=\"https://toot.cafe/tags/writing\">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href=\"https://toot.cafe/tags/writers\">#<span>writers</span></a> <a href=\"https://toot.cafe/tags/ai\">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href=\"https://toot.cafe/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Originally published on my blog:\nhttps://www.codingwithjesse.com/blog/how-i-feel-about-ai/\n\nSubscribe to my newsletter:\nhttps://www.codingwithjesse.com/newsletter/\n\n#blog #writing #writers #ai #indieweb"
    },
    "published": "2024-11-26T18:46:37+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "43035321",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

Manton Reece www.manton.org

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Manton Reece www.manton.org

Bluesky relays, Mastodon discovery providers

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        "html": "<p>Comparing ActivityPub and AT Proto is a useful exercise. It\u2019s tempting but ultimately too simple to say that one is decentralized and one is centralized. Bluesky\u2019s app and relay are centralized but personal hosting in Bluesky is decentralized. Mastodon\u2019s instances are decentralized but identity within an instance is tied to that instance. This makes for an odd comparison because it\u2019s actually easier to migrate account data in Bluesky than it is in Mastodon.</p>\n<p>Folks have criticized Bluesky from the beginning for not adopting ActivityPub. I think it\u2019s clear now that the Bluesky team created AT Proto because they wanted to decouple certain aspects of the protocol, allowing for a high-performance infrastructure that could replace Twitter, while maintaining the benefits of the open web around hosting and domain names. Their strategy has paid off. Bluesky is growing very quickly and is now twice as large as Mastodon.</p>\n<p>Centralized identity is an issue, though. Most people in the fediverse are hosted on a single Mastodon instance, mastodon.social, and <em>everyone</em> in Bluesky is tied to a single identity provider. The team at Bluesky obviously knows this limitation, which is why they named their scheme \u201cplaceholder\u201d and hope to have management of it adopted by a more independent, ICANN-style organization.</p>\n<p>I mention all of this as prelude to <a href=\"https://www.fediscovery.org/\">fediverse discovery providers</a>. Discovery providers is a proposal for an open network of servers that effectively index Mastodon servers, providing a more universal timeline and search across servers, among other potential features such as spam filtering. These servers would serve a similar purpose to Bluesky\u2019s relay. If this model becomes popular and apps are built to depend on it, it makes aspects of Mastodon slightly less decentralized, but the trade-off is worth it. Many people do want a more realtime, complete index of posts that are flowing through the fediverse.</p>\n<p>For years Micro.blog customers have also asked for a firehouse view of blog posts. I\u2019ve avoided it, and I\u2019ll continue to avoid it, because it creates new problems for spam and moderation. It\u2019s great that Bluesky and Mastodon offer their own forms of this. Not all platforms need it, though, and as Bluesky and Mastodon become busier, Micro.blog will continue to carve out a quieter, slower niche on the social web.</p>\n<p>In Micro.blog you don\u2019t see everything because seeing everything is overwhelming. Our approach to notifications is also pared back. Micro.blog has a simple Mentions section to see replies and @-mentions. That\u2019s it. It does not have a Notifications section like every other network, cluttered with likes, follows, and retweets. If you\u2019re used to the dopamine hit of seeing someone like your post, this more limited view may take some getting used to. It\u2019s not for everyone, and that\u2019s fine too.</p>\n<p>If Mastodon can add a relay-like service with discovery providers, I wonder if Bluesky could add its own additional layer at the community level. In other words, something that duplicates the benefits of having many instances with a small number of users \u2014 thousands or tens of thousands of users, not millions. This could address some concerns about Bluesky depending too heavily on a single company, especially if client apps could connect directly to a community server.</p>\n<p>Mastodon and Bluesky both have their own strengths. Because they don\u2019t completely overlap, neither platform feels finished yet. The social web is still young enough that we can shape it, borrowing good ideas wherever we see them. Both platforms have staying power.</p>\n<p>I\u2019m less concerned with having a single \u201cwinning\u201d social protocol than some people are. The web is already that protocol. Blogs and social networks can coexist, each building on open APIs and contributing what they\u2019re good at: blogs for content ownership and voice, social networks for community. The lines will blur. Interoperability will get better. The web is finally in a good place again.</p>",
        "text": "Comparing ActivityPub and AT Proto is a useful exercise. It\u2019s tempting but ultimately too simple to say that one is decentralized and one is centralized. Bluesky\u2019s app and relay are centralized but personal hosting in Bluesky is decentralized. Mastodon\u2019s instances are decentralized but identity within an instance is tied to that instance. This makes for an odd comparison because it\u2019s actually easier to migrate account data in Bluesky than it is in Mastodon.\nFolks have criticized Bluesky from the beginning for not adopting ActivityPub. I think it\u2019s clear now that the Bluesky team created AT Proto because they wanted to decouple certain aspects of the protocol, allowing for a high-performance infrastructure that could replace Twitter, while maintaining the benefits of the open web around hosting and domain names. Their strategy has paid off. Bluesky is growing very quickly and is now twice as large as Mastodon.\nCentralized identity is an issue, though. Most people in the fediverse are hosted on a single Mastodon instance, mastodon.social, and everyone in Bluesky is tied to a single identity provider. The team at Bluesky obviously knows this limitation, which is why they named their scheme \u201cplaceholder\u201d and hope to have management of it adopted by a more independent, ICANN-style organization.\nI mention all of this as prelude to fediverse discovery providers. Discovery providers is a proposal for an open network of servers that effectively index Mastodon servers, providing a more universal timeline and search across servers, among other potential features such as spam filtering. These servers would serve a similar purpose to Bluesky\u2019s relay. If this model becomes popular and apps are built to depend on it, it makes aspects of Mastodon slightly less decentralized, but the trade-off is worth it. Many people do want a more realtime, complete index of posts that are flowing through the fediverse.\nFor years Micro.blog customers have also asked for a firehouse view of blog posts. I\u2019ve avoided it, and I\u2019ll continue to avoid it, because it creates new problems for spam and moderation. It\u2019s great that Bluesky and Mastodon offer their own forms of this. Not all platforms need it, though, and as Bluesky and Mastodon become busier, Micro.blog will continue to carve out a quieter, slower niche on the social web.\nIn Micro.blog you don\u2019t see everything because seeing everything is overwhelming. Our approach to notifications is also pared back. Micro.blog has a simple Mentions section to see replies and @-mentions. That\u2019s it. It does not have a Notifications section like every other network, cluttered with likes, follows, and retweets. If you\u2019re used to the dopamine hit of seeing someone like your post, this more limited view may take some getting used to. It\u2019s not for everyone, and that\u2019s fine too.\nIf Mastodon can add a relay-like service with discovery providers, I wonder if Bluesky could add its own additional layer at the community level. In other words, something that duplicates the benefits of having many instances with a small number of users \u2014 thousands or tens of thousands of users, not millions. This could address some concerns about Bluesky depending too heavily on a single company, especially if client apps could connect directly to a community server.\nMastodon and Bluesky both have their own strengths. Because they don\u2019t completely overlap, neither platform feels finished yet. The social web is still young enough that we can shape it, borrowing good ideas wherever we see them. Both platforms have staying power.\nI\u2019m less concerned with having a single \u201cwinning\u201d social protocol than some people are. The web is already that protocol. Blogs and social networks can coexist, each building on open APIs and contributing what they\u2019re good at: blogs for content ownership and voice, social networks for community. The lines will blur. Interoperability will get better. The web is finally in a good place again."
    },
    "published": "2024-11-26T10:11:07-06:00",
    "category": [
        "Essays"
    ],
    "post-type": "article",
    "_id": "43033966",
    "_source": "12",
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://beige.party/@tflynn/113549917095239931",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>I am soft launching something today. Typically my personal response to times of crisis is to just go back to what I know, which is putting very sad, minimalist songs out into the world. This time, I wanted to do an audio sketchbook to document my daily guitar practice. It's just raw song ideas straight from my acoustic into my phone. Some of them are pretty ok.</p><p>I'll be syndicating posts from this to Mastodon \u2013 mostly in the form of audio posts that themselves are just little song ideas. It's hardly a commitment, and you might find them soothing. Anyway, here's this for now:</p><p><a href=\"https://frgmnt.art\"><span>https://</span><span>frgmnt.art</span><span></span></a></p><p>Thanks for listening!</p><p><a href=\"https://beige.party/tags/IndieMusic\">#<span>IndieMusic</span></a> <a href=\"https://beige.party/tags/FediMusic\">#<span>FediMusic</span></a> <a href=\"https://beige.party/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://beige.party/tags/Eleventy\">#<span>Eleventy</span></a> <a href=\"https://beige.party/tags/Guitar\">#<span>Guitar</span></a> <a href=\"https://beige.party/tags/PostRock\">#<span>PostRock</span></a></p>",
        "text": "I am soft launching something today. Typically my personal response to times of crisis is to just go back to what I know, which is putting very sad, minimalist songs out into the world. This time, I wanted to do an audio sketchbook to document my daily guitar practice. It's just raw song ideas straight from my acoustic into my phone. Some of them are pretty ok.\n\nI'll be syndicating posts from this to Mastodon \u2013 mostly in the form of audio posts that themselves are just little song ideas. It's hardly a commitment, and you might find them soothing. Anyway, here's this for now:\n\nhttps://frgmnt.art\n\nThanks for listening!\n\n#IndieMusic #FediMusic #IndieWeb #Eleventy #Guitar #PostRock"
    },
    "published": "2024-11-26T15:17:13+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "43033201",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://caneandable.social/@WeirdWriter/113547576639117482",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>I started getting into alt media and here\u2019s some highlights. <a href=\"https://robertkingett.com/posts/6667/\"><span>https://</span><span>robertkingett.com/posts/6667/</span><span></span></a> <a href=\"https://caneandable.social/tags/Blog\">#<span>Blog</span></a> <a href=\"https://caneandable.social/tags/Blogs\">#<span>Blogs</span></a> <a href=\"https://caneandable.social/tags/Blogging\">#<span>Blogging</span></a> <a href=\"https://caneandable.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://caneandable.social/tags/NoPaywall\">#<span>NoPaywall</span></a></p>",
        "text": "I started getting into alt media and here\u2019s some highlights. https://robertkingett.com/posts/6667/ #Blog #Blogs #Blogging #IndieWeb #NoPaywall"
    },
    "published": "2024-11-26T05:22:00+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "43028269",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mastodon.social/@Cappyjax/113547553538304740",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Found this cool simple weather site that looks just as good on the web as it does in the terminal - just run `curl wttr.in` </p><p> <a href=\"https://wttr.in/\"><span>https://</span><span>wttr.in/</span><span></span></a> </p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/Weather\">#<span>Weather</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/Terminal\">#<span>Terminal</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Found this cool simple weather site that looks just as good on the web as it does in the terminal - just run `curl wttr.in` \n\n https://wttr.in/ \n\n#Weather #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #Terminal"
    },
    "published": "2024-11-26T05:16:08+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "43028270",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://topspicy.social/@meljoann/113545717009624503",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Just found: <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://hachyderm.io/@octothorpes\">@<span>octothorpes</span></a></span> ... Cool idea to implement hashtags &amp; backlinks across the open web. </p><p>I can see grassroots <a href=\"https://topspicy.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> stuff like this becoming very useful, as search engines are overwhelmed by LLM and sponsored post slop.</p><p><a href=\"https://octothorp.es/\"><span>https://</span><span>octothorp.es/</span><span></span></a></p>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://hachyderm.io/@octothorpes\"></a>",
        "text": "Just found: @octothorpes ... Cool idea to implement hashtags & backlinks across the open web. \n\nI can see grassroots #indieweb stuff like this becoming very useful, as search engines are overwhelmed by LLM and sponsored post slop.\n\nhttps://octothorp.es/"
    },
    "published": "2024-11-25T21:29:04+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "43024853",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}