Pedaços do dezembro.
#indieweb #posse #blog
https://ilogi.co/posts/umasferias/
Attended my first IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club this evening. Good people. Let the record show that I was not the first to say "Nix" or "Perl."
You've heard of touching grass. But what about touching #moss ?
https://axxuy.xyz/blog/posts/2025/touchmoss/
#blog #blogpost #indieweb
@omz13 What are the clearest alternatives to #WebMention?
Your Favorite Newsletter’s Favorite Newsletters (final)
There’s now an event page for next week’s IndieWeb Meetup in Austin. ☕️🍺
It's not enough simply to promote the Social Web.
We need to promote the Independent Social Web: a vast network of ActivityPub-powered servers administered by independent operators unbeholden to corporate malfeasance and the whims of childish billionaires.
Thanks to the #IndieWeb movement, we understand the importance of Own Your Data and originating content on services you control and/or personally trust. Now we must promote Own Your Profile. Because if it's not *yours*, it's someone else's.
Hey gang! Please follow @ap.brid.gy so the fediverse community can also follow you on #bluesky #techthreads #indieweb
@dominik own domain, own blog and freedom. #IndieWeb and #Fediverse are the future of normal Internet.
Weird v0.3 - Dreams for sale!
https://blog.muni.town/selling-dreams/
@erlend just dropped ⤴️
#indieweb #personalwebsites #webdev
I don’t know why it isn’t more popular to get a domain with some friends and like-minded people and start a web collective. Everybody gets a subdomain. Or perhaps you can share a blog?
The #indieweb focus on on owning your shit instead of sharing it seems like an unnecessary focus.
Not that there is anything *wrong* with paying for your own domain and hosting. But for some, perhaps sharing it with (more knowledgeable?) people would make it easier and more fun.
@dominik ¨
Seeing all the recent Meta drama makes having a personal website even more attractive.
Get yourself a domain & create your personal corner of the internet! You don't even need coding skills with tools like https://micro.blog/ or https://bearblog.dev/.
Zuckerberg, ese retrasado mental.
New blog post - Mastodon Post Web Component
#webcomponent which uses the #mastodon api to display a single post
alternative to #webmentions to provide reactions to posts
RSS wants to be free
OK, come with me on an adventure I recently had with my new Ubuntu desktop environment.
My laptop came with Ubuntu pre-installed, which meant I was ready for action as soon as I opened its lid for the first time. After tweaking the visuals to make my environment look a bit more pleasing, I started installing a few apps. Because this is a simple task that does not call for a lot of focus and brain power, I thought I’d listen to a podcast as I went along. I need a podcast client aka podcatcher to listen to one of my favorites. So I open the Ubuntu Software Store and search for the word “podcasts”.
I quickly find a nice-looking and intriguing native (GNOME) app that I proceed to install. “What am I in the mood for?”, I wonder. My mind goes to “99% Invisible”, a podcast on all things design, hosted by Roman Mars, and that is always on point.
So I fire their website:
I then head over to “Ways to listen” and find their RSS link:
And here’s the magical part. Because the content for 99% Invisible is not behind a paywall, ie, it’s freely available for anyone to listen to, all I need to do is copy this RSS feed link to my freshly installed podcast app aptly called Podcasts. All the episodes are neatly listed on that feed, and I can listen to or download any of them at my own pace. Nice!
Go ahead and listen to your heart’s content. Create playlists and have a custom radio station, go wild!Here are some more great podcast feeds you can simply feed (pun intended, naturally!) into your podcatcher of choice:
Start with these podcasts and you’re already in for a well-spent afternoon.This other post on podcasting has a bunch more recommendations, in case you’re searching.
Why bother when I can just search Apple or Pocketcasts or Spotify directories?
Ah, glad you ask. This is a deeper question that goes all the way to why do we need an open web at all. Well, the first thing is, you should always own your data. And your podcast collection is also your data to keep and migrate from one podcatcher to another if you so decide to. If you subscribe to all your podcasts on, say, Spotify, and if Spotify shuts down, or for some reason decides to ban you from their app (not likely, but also not impossible), you lose all access to the podcasts you listen to. As a matter of fact there is a standard format for exporting RSS feeds, called OPML. Here’s an OPML file containing the above podcasts. If one day I want to go from the app Podcasts, to, say, Podcast Addict, I simply export the OPML file on Podcasts, import it on Podcast Addict, and 30 seconds later I’m back to listening to my favourite shows. This also applies to RSS feeds used for following (text-based) publications (post in Portuguese).
This is the kind of freedom the open web beckons. But also the kind of freedom that Tech Giants loathe, the one that threatens their walled garden philosophies. Because companies like Spotify or Apple or Meta would like to be the Internet. Be one monolithic silo where you lead all of your online life, where you could instead enjoy millions of small niches talking to each other, and sharing standards that make learning, creating and having fun simple.
Do you think this makes sense, or am I just a rambling man from the XXth century? Discuss this on Mastodon, Bluesky or LinkedIn.
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On the elegance of the podcast as an RSS feed.
Just published my 2024-in-review post for my technical blog content!
Predictably, it's mostly about web performance and the indie web...
#fluConf2025 will include a track on independent publishing and archival. We want to hear stories of what's being done to create non-corporate spaces on the web and preserve the media big companies so often erase.
Tell us about your motivations and experience moving from big platforms like Substack, Twitter, Instagram, and Wix to self-hosted or communally-operated alternatives.
Share your insights into the world of for-profit journals in academia, and efforts to establish better options not based on extraction.
How do you adapt to challenges like the falling adoption of established syndication protocols like RSS, the costs of AI scraping, and ever-changing search engine algorithms? How do you keep up with legal requirements for content moderation and age verification?
With so many corporate platforms shutting down, changing policies on media retention, or moving to monetize content for AI training: how have you gone about archiving your media? What tools and techniques have you used to ensure it isn't lost? How do we resist corporate capture of independent media and foster conditions for more long-lived infrastructure?
Apply up until midnight of January 19th, 2025 (anywhere on Earth)
#FOSS #selfhosting #archival #archivalResearch #newHere #substackMigration #twitterExodus #academia #publishing #publishingModel #openAccess #openPublishing #scientificPublishing #science #openScience #openWeb #RSS #threads #POSSE #indieWeb