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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
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    "url": "https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:77tdak46psveqneyegsdyc7l/post/3lfi36wdois2v",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>It's not enough to be neutral. Platform and protocol owners should be allies. <a href=\"https://werd.io/2025/building-an-open-web-that-protects-us-from-harm\">werd.io/2025/buildin...</a> <a href=\"https://bsky.app/search?q=%23fediverse\">#fediverse</a> <a href=\"https://bsky.app/search?q=%23opensource\">#opensource</a> <a href=\"https://bsky.app/search?q=%23indieweb\">#indieweb</a><br /><br /><a href=\"https://werd.io/2025/building-an-open-web-that-protects-us-from-harm\">Building an open web that prot...</a></p>",
        "text": "It's not enough to be neutral. Platform and protocol owners should be allies. werd.io/2025/buildin... #fediverse #opensource #indieweb\n\nBuilding an open web that prot..."
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
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    "url": "https://werd.social/@ben/113810546658453902",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>It's not enough to be neutral. Platform and protocol owners should be allies. <a href=\"https://werd.io/2025/building-an-open-web-that-protects-us-from-harm\"><span>https://</span><span>werd.io/2025/building-an-open-</span><span>web-that-protects-us-from-harm</span></a> <a href=\"https://werd.social/tags/fediverse\">#<span>fediverse</span></a> <a href=\"https://werd.social/tags/opensource\">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href=\"https://werd.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "It's not enough to be neutral. Platform and protocol owners should be allies. https://werd.io/2025/building-an-open-web-that-protects-us-from-harm #fediverse #opensource #indieweb"
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
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    "url": "https://mastodon.online/@jlsksr/113809974120559753",
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        "html": "<p>I really like personal homepages and have quite a list of them bookmarked. I'll post one every week unless I fall behind this schedule. \ud83d\ude09 So here's Cool Personal Homepages <a href=\"https://mastodon.online/tags/CPH\">#<span>CPH</span></a> Vol. 34: \"gniibe, GNU bee, and Degrees of Freedom\" <a href=\"https://www.gniibe.org/\"><span>https://www.</span><span>gniibe.org/</span><span></span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.online/tags/SmallWeb\">#<span>SmallWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.online/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.online/tags/smolweb\">#<span>smolweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.online/tags/PersonalSites\">#<span>PersonalSites</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.online/tags/homepage\">#<span>homepage</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.online/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a></p>",
        "text": "I really like personal homepages and have quite a list of them bookmarked. I'll post one every week unless I fall behind this schedule. \ud83d\ude09 So here's Cool Personal Homepages #CPH Vol. 34: \"gniibe, GNU bee, and Degrees of Freedom\" https://www.gniibe.org/\n\n#SmallWeb #indieweb #smolweb #PersonalSites #homepage #blog"
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    "_id": "43507806",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
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    "url": "https://mastodon.social/@cemre/113809867955684565",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>I have a new more caj blog. But what do I expect from it? <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a> </p><p><a href=\"https://mistystep.org/blog/this-blog\"><span>https://</span><span>mistystep.org/blog/this-blog</span><span></span></a></p>",
        "text": "I have a new more caj blog. But what do I expect from it? #indieweb #blog \n\nhttps://mistystep.org/blog/this-blog"
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    "published": "2025-01-11T13:06:08+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "43507554",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
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    "url": "https://linkpunk.micro.blog/2025/01/11/read-sanding-off-friction-from.html",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Read:  <a href=\"https://tracydurnell.com/2025/01/09/sanding-off-friction-from-indie-web-connection/\">Sanding off friction from indie web connection | Tracy Durnell</a></p><br /><p>#indieweb</p>",
        "text": "Read:  Sanding off friction from indie web connection | Tracy Durnell\n#indieweb"
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    "published": "2025-01-11T10:18:23+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "43506468",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
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    "url": "https://mastodon.social/@bradenslen/113809208841342673",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Read:  Sanding off friction from indie web connection | Tracy Durnell</p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://tracydurnell.com/2025/01/09/sanding-off-friction-from-indie-web-connection/\"><span>https://</span><span>tracydurnell.com/2025/01/09/sa</span><span>nding-off-friction-from-indie-web-connection/</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Read:  Sanding off friction from indie web connection | Tracy Durnell\n\n#indieweb https://tracydurnell.com/2025/01/09/sanding-off-friction-from-indie-web-connection/"
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    "published": "2025-01-11T10:18:31+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "43506469",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
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    "url": "https://toot.lqdev.tech/@lqdev/113807669270894446",
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        "html": "<p>Attended my first IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club <a href=\"https://toot.lqdev.tech/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://toot.lqdev.tech/tags/community\">#<span>community</span></a> <a href=\"https://www.luisquintanilla.me/feed/attended-first-indieweb-hwc?utm_medium=feed\"><span>https://www.</span><span>luisquintanilla.me/feed/attend</span><span>ed-first-indieweb-hwc?utm_medium=feed</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Attended my first IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club #indieweb #community https://www.luisquintanilla.me/feed/attended-first-indieweb-hwc?utm_medium=feed"
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
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        "photo": null
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    "url": "https://hachyderm.io/@miclgael/113807643731213733",
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        "html": "<p>Updated my little microsite. </p><p>I moved from my <a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/tags/Reef\">#<span>Reef</span></a> MVP to a static <a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/tags/Astro\">#<span>Astro</span></a> build, added a streak counter, trick tracker and updated the layout to a two column with an accent colour. </p><p><a href=\"https://skate.michaelgale.dev/?v=s\"><span>https://</span><span>skate.michaelgale.dev/?v=s</span><span></span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/tags/skateboarding\">#<span>skateboarding</span></a> <a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/tags/blogging\">#<span>blogging</span></a> <a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Updated my little microsite. \n\nI moved from my #Reef MVP to a static #Astro build, added a streak counter, trick tracker and updated the layout to a two column with an accent colour. \n\nhttps://skate.michaelgale.dev/?v=s\n\n#skateboarding #blogging #indieweb"
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
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        "photo": null
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    "url": "https://critter.cafe/@devils/113807345097422897",
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        "html": "<p>Reworked my personal site, <a href=\"https://411.rip/\"><span>https://</span><span>411.rip/</span><span></span></a> ! Some pages need to be worked on still, but y'know. It's here.</p><p><a href=\"https://critter.cafe/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://critter.cafe/tags/Neocities\">#<span>Neocities</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Reworked my personal site, https://411.rip/ ! Some pages need to be worked on still, but y'know. It's here.\n\n#IndieWeb #Neocities"
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    "published": "2025-01-11T02:24:32+00:00",
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
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    "url": "https://mastodon.social/@pearsonmediallc/113807243236929514",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>\ud83d\udc40 For Creative Connections <br /><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/authors\">#<span>authors</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/filmmakers\">#<span>filmmakers</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/creators\">#<span>creators</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/podcasters\">#<span>podcasters</span></a> &amp; <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/YouTubers\">#<span>YouTubers</span></a> . I\u2019m looking to connect. <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/webmention\">#<span>webmention</span></a> enabled . \u2026</p><p><a href=\"https://mindcreatesmeaning.com/%F0%9F%91%80-for-creative-connections/\"><span>https://</span><span>mindcreatesmeaning.com/%f0%9f%</span><span>91%80-for-creative-connections/</span></a><br />--<br /><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/authors\">#<span>authors</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/creative\">#<span>creative</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/creatives\">#<span>creatives</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/creators\">#<span>creators</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/filmmakers\">#<span>filmmakers</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/filmmaking\">#<span>filmmaking</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/indieDev\">#<span>indieDev</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/indieFilm\">#<span>indieFilm</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/podcasters\">#<span>podcasters</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/theater\">#<span>theater</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/theatre\">#<span>theatre</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/webmention\">#<span>webmention</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/Writer\">#<span>Writer</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/YouTubers\">#<span>YouTubers</span></a></p>",
        "text": "\ud83d\udc40 For Creative Connections \n#authors #filmmakers #creators #podcasters & #YouTubers . I\u2019m looking to connect. #indieweb #webmention enabled . \u2026\n\nhttps://mindcreatesmeaning.com/%f0%9f%91%80-for-creative-connections/\n--\n#authors #creative #creatives #creators #filmmakers #filmmaking #indieDev #indieFilm #indieweb #podcasters #theater #theatre #webmention #Writer #YouTubers"
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    "published": "2025-01-11T01:58:38+00:00",
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        "html": "<p>\ud83d\udc40 For Creative Connections</p><p><a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://mindcreatesmeaning.com/tag/authors/\">#authors</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://mindcreatesmeaning.com/tag/filmmakers/\">#filmmakers</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://mindcreatesmeaning.com/tag/creators/\">#creators</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://mindcreatesmeaning.com/tag/podcasters/\">#podcasters</a> &amp; <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://mindcreatesmeaning.com/tag/youtubers/\">#YouTubers</a> . I\u2019m looking to connect. <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://mindcreatesmeaning.com/tag/indieweb/\">#indieweb</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://mindcreatesmeaning.com/tag/webmention/\">#webmention</a> enabled .</p><p><a href=\"https://mindcreatesmeaning.com/%F0%9F%91%80-for-creative-connections/\">https://mindcreatesmeaning.com/%f0%9f%91%80-for-creative-connections/</a></p><p><a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://mindcreatesmeaning.com/tag/authors/\">#authors</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://mindcreatesmeaning.com/tag/creative/\">#creative</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://mindcreatesmeaning.com/tag/creatives/\">#creatives</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://mindcreatesmeaning.com/tag/creators/\">#creators</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://mindcreatesmeaning.com/tag/filmmakers/\">#filmmakers</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://mindcreatesmeaning.com/tag/filmmaking/\">#filmmaking</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://mindcreatesmeaning.com/tag/indiedev/\">#indieDev</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://mindcreatesmeaning.com/tag/indiefilm/\">#indieFilm</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://mindcreatesmeaning.com/tag/indieweb/\">#indieweb</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://mindcreatesmeaning.com/tag/podcasters/\">#podcasters</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://mindcreatesmeaning.com/tag/theater/\">#theater</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://mindcreatesmeaning.com/tag/theatre/\">#theatre</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://mindcreatesmeaning.com/tag/webmention/\">#webmention</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://mindcreatesmeaning.com/tag/writer/\">#Writer</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://mindcreatesmeaning.com/tag/youtubers/\">#YouTubers</a></p>",
        "text": "\ud83d\udc40 For Creative Connections\n\n#authors #filmmakers #creators #podcasters & #YouTubers . I\u2019m looking to connect. #indieweb #webmention enabled .\n\nhttps://mindcreatesmeaning.com/%f0%9f%91%80-for-creative-connections/\n\n#authors #creative #creatives #creators #filmmakers #filmmaking #indieDev #indieFilm #indieweb #podcasters #theater #theatre #webmention #Writer #YouTubers"
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    "url": "https://babka.social/@calispera/113807122779926464",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>I bought a domain </p><p>But I can't bring myself to write the first post \ud83d\ude10</p><p><a href=\"https://babka.social/tags/adhd\">#<span>adhd</span></a><br /><a href=\"https://babka.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "I bought a domain \n\nBut I can't bring myself to write the first post \ud83d\ude10\n\n#adhd\n#indieweb"
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    "published": "2025-01-11T01:28:00+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "43503755",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
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    "url": "https://mograph.social/@mauro/113806563979008234",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Aaaargh! Images aren't showing in the RSS version of my blog posts!!</p><p>It has to do with the absolute/relative paths I use in the markdown files...(and I really need to find a solution to host media for my website).</p><p>Also to a closer inspection of the source code, Astro is not interpreting correctly my intentions with &lt;figcaption&gt;. Or rather, markdown-it is messing it up..</p><p>I need to fix it but, again, it's quite late. Why I always find this issues late at night??</p><p><a href=\"https://mograph.social/tags/webdev\">#<span>webdev</span></a> <a href=\"https://mograph.social/tags/astro\">#<span>astro</span></a> <a href=\"https://mograph.social/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href=\"https://mograph.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Aaaargh! Images aren't showing in the RSS version of my blog posts!!\n\nIt has to do with the absolute/relative paths I use in the markdown files...(and I really need to find a solution to host media for my website).\n\nAlso to a closer inspection of the source code, Astro is not interpreting correctly my intentions with <figcaption>. Or rather, markdown-it is messing it up..\n\nI need to fix it but, again, it's quite late. Why I always find this issues late at night??\n\n#webdev #astro #blog #indieweb"
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    "published": "2025-01-10T23:05:53+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
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    "_is_read": false
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HWC Edinburgh - 28 Jan

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        "html": "<p>HWC Edinburgh is restarting at the end of January. Join us on Tuesday 28th!\n\nhttps://events.indieweb.org/2025/01/homebrew-website-club-edinburgh-9km8kEio9nHY</p>",
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Hachyderm and Threads

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    "name": "Hachyderm and Threads",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>The popular Mastodon server Hachyderm.io has defederated with Threads. <a href=\"https://community.hachyderm.io/blog/2025/01/09/defederation-from-threads/\">They have a long post</a> with their reasoning:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Threads\u2019 recent changes in their moderation policies, both what they\u2019ve put in and what they\u2019ve taken out (read the diff), puts their moderation practices in direct conflict with ours. Essentially, Threads may indeed be large enough that many users are just looking to exist somewhere on social media and are not necessarily de facto fans of Mark Zuckerberg et al, but we anticipate these changes to moderation will shift the user base of Threads in a way that is damaging to the Hachyderm community, so we are defederating from them before that can occur.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>A couple thoughts on this:</p>\n<ul><li>Hachyderm\u2019s data shows that they\u2019ve had only one report from their community against a user on Threads, while they\u2019ve had hundreds for popular servers like Mastodon.social. Therefore from the data alone, it\u2019s premature to defederate. The decision is clearly based on perceived future risk.</li>\n<li>Even though I\u2019ve blogged about my disagreement with Meta\u2019s new approach to content moderation, I don\u2019t think defederating is the answer. It makes a decision for thousands of users, cutting them off from following Threads accounts, rather than letting each user decide if they want to opt out. It makes the fediverse worse and more disjointed, in my opinion.</li>\n</ul><p>The culture of Mastodon is built around community servers. This model works best for small servers. When you have large servers like Mastodon.social or Hachyderm.io (or, at a huge scale, Threads.net itself) you will have a more diverse set of users and it becomes harder to make decisions that affect everyone.</p>\n<p>But Mastodon users can just migrate between servers, right? To find a server that more closely aligns with what they want to see on the fediverse? Sort of. You can move your followers, but there is still no way to move your posts between Mastodon servers that I\u2019m aware of. (Micro.blog has both follower migration and posts import from Mastodon.)</p>\n<p>The social web is evolving quickly and I see a need for many types of platforms: small and medium-sized community servers running Mastodon, larger platforms like Bluesky with their own take on content filtering, and IndieWeb-friendly platforms where each fediverse user has their own domain name rather than a domain shared with the community. There\u2019s a place for all of these things.</p>\n<p>If there\u2019s pushback against the Hachyderm decision \u2014 and there might not be \u2014 it will be because the server has too many users to be managed as if it\u2019s a small community server. According to <a href=\"https://fedidb.org/\">FediDB</a>, Hachyderm has nearly 10k active users and 55k total users, putting it in the top 30 fediverse servers.</p>\n<p>Larger platforms create new problems. Massive, centralized platforms have <em>even more problems</em>, inherent in their scale. The web is generally better when it\u2019s more distributed. That means more, smaller servers. Perhaps the future of Hachyderm is to embrace being small.</p>",
        "text": "The popular Mastodon server Hachyderm.io has defederated with Threads. They have a long post with their reasoning:\n\nThreads\u2019 recent changes in their moderation policies, both what they\u2019ve put in and what they\u2019ve taken out (read the diff), puts their moderation practices in direct conflict with ours. Essentially, Threads may indeed be large enough that many users are just looking to exist somewhere on social media and are not necessarily de facto fans of Mark Zuckerberg et al, but we anticipate these changes to moderation will shift the user base of Threads in a way that is damaging to the Hachyderm community, so we are defederating from them before that can occur.\n\nA couple thoughts on this:\nHachyderm\u2019s data shows that they\u2019ve had only one report from their community against a user on Threads, while they\u2019ve had hundreds for popular servers like Mastodon.social. Therefore from the data alone, it\u2019s premature to defederate. The decision is clearly based on perceived future risk.\nEven though I\u2019ve blogged about my disagreement with Meta\u2019s new approach to content moderation, I don\u2019t think defederating is the answer. It makes a decision for thousands of users, cutting them off from following Threads accounts, rather than letting each user decide if they want to opt out. It makes the fediverse worse and more disjointed, in my opinion.\nThe culture of Mastodon is built around community servers. This model works best for small servers. When you have large servers like Mastodon.social or Hachyderm.io (or, at a huge scale, Threads.net itself) you will have a more diverse set of users and it becomes harder to make decisions that affect everyone.\nBut Mastodon users can just migrate between servers, right? To find a server that more closely aligns with what they want to see on the fediverse? Sort of. You can move your followers, but there is still no way to move your posts between Mastodon servers that I\u2019m aware of. (Micro.blog has both follower migration and posts import from Mastodon.)\nThe social web is evolving quickly and I see a need for many types of platforms: small and medium-sized community servers running Mastodon, larger platforms like Bluesky with their own take on content filtering, and IndieWeb-friendly platforms where each fediverse user has their own domain name rather than a domain shared with the community. There\u2019s a place for all of these things.\nIf there\u2019s pushback against the Hachyderm decision \u2014 and there might not be \u2014 it will be because the server has too many users to be managed as if it\u2019s a small community server. According to FediDB, Hachyderm has nearly 10k active users and 55k total users, putting it in the top 30 fediverse servers.\nLarger platforms create new problems. Massive, centralized platforms have even more problems, inherent in their scale. The web is generally better when it\u2019s more distributed. That means more, smaller servers. Perhaps the future of Hachyderm is to embrace being small."
    },
    "published": "2025-01-10T14:11:25-06:00",
    "category": [
        "Essays"
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://bolha.us/@Roneyb/113805676561144611",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Atualizei a minha p\u00e1gina \"Agora\" para incluir a lista de m\u00fasicas que favoritei no streaming (s\u00e3o s\u00f3 611 pq mudei tem menos de um ano)</p><p><a href=\"https://www.memedecarbono.com.br/agora/\"><span>https://www.</span><span>memedecarbono.com.br/agora/</span><span></span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://bolha.us/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://bolha.us/tags/NowPage\">#<span>NowPage</span></a> <a href=\"https://bolha.us/tags/Playlist\">#<span>Playlist</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Atualizei a minha p\u00e1gina \"Agora\" para incluir a lista de m\u00fasicas que favoritei no streaming (s\u00e3o s\u00f3 611 pq mudei tem menos de um ano)\n\nhttps://www.memedecarbono.com.br/agora/\n\n#IndieWeb #NowPage #Playlist"
    },
    "published": "2025-01-10T19:20:12+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "43500905",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/113805330676855571",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>\"What if we didn\u2019t think of a website as one thing that answers to a million people? What if instead, there were millions of websites, each one handmade by a single person?\"</p><p><a href=\"https://www.figma.com/blog/making-space-for-a-handmade-web/\"><span>https://www.</span><span>figma.com/blog/making-space-fo</span><span>r-a-handmade-web/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/PersonalWebsite\">#<span>PersonalWebsite</span></a></p>",
        "text": "\"What if we didn\u2019t think of a website as one thing that answers to a million people? What if instead, there were millions of websites, each one handmade by a single person?\"\n\nhttps://www.figma.com/blog/making-space-for-a-handmade-web/\n\n#indieweb #PersonalWebsite"
    },
    "published": "2025-01-10T17:52:14+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "43499776",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://writing.exchange/@erlend/113805270432567251",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>First step towards fediverse compatibility in <a href=\"https://writing.exchange/tags/WeirdOne\">#<span>WeirdOne</span></a> is complete!</p><p>All Weird sites (which can have custom domains like my erlend.sh) now automatically verify against Mastodon &amp; co. \u2705</p><p><a href=\"https://writing.exchange/@erlend/113794326443596401\"><span>https://</span><span>writing.exchange/@erlend/11379</span><span>4326443596401</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://writing.exchange/tags/fediverse\">#<span>fediverse</span></a> <a href=\"https://writing.exchange/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://writing.exchange/tags/socialweb\">#<span>socialweb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "First step towards fediverse compatibility in #WeirdOne is complete!\n\nAll Weird sites (which can have custom domains like my erlend.sh) now automatically verify against Mastodon & co. \u2705\n\nhttps://writing.exchange/@erlend/113794326443596401\n\n#fediverse #indieweb #socialweb"
    },
    "published": "2025-01-10T17:36:55+00:00",
    "photo": [
        "https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/113/805/270/556/457/203/original/72e8d552c67f23c2.jpeg"
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    "post-type": "photo",
    "_id": "43499622",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/113805150119530743",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Thinking about starting a new blog this year, or reviving an old one?</p><p>Here are some upcoming and ongoing blogging challenges to inspire you.</p><p><a href=\"https://challenges.stefanbohacek.com/?search=%23blogging\"><span>https://</span><span>challenges.stefanbohacek.com/?</span><span>search=%23blogging</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href=\"https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/blogging\">#<span>blogging</span></a> <a href=\"https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/writing\">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href=\"https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Thinking about starting a new blog this year, or reviving an old one?\n\nHere are some upcoming and ongoing blogging challenges to inspire you.\n\nhttps://challenges.stefanbohacek.com/?search=%23blogging\n\n#blog #blogging #writing #indieweb"
    },
    "published": "2025-01-10T17:06:19+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "43499492",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://fediscience.org/@tlohde/113805075351677869",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>In the process of moving my little website from WordPress.</p><p>Have made good progress with <a href=\"https://fediscience.org/tags/11ty\">#<span>11ty</span></a>, and have something up and running via codeberg pages...(<a href=\"https://tlohde.codeberg.page\"><span>https://</span><span>tlohde.codeberg.page</span><span></span></a>).</p><p>Aiming to use a custom domain at some point.</p><p>But...what do I do about images? I don't want to fill up codeberg (or github for that matter) with images?</p><p>But I like being able to push changes with git. Hosting/deploying suggestions welcome.</p><p><a href=\"https://fediscience.org/tags/help\">#<span>help</span></a> <a href=\"https://fediscience.org/tags/newbie\">#<span>newbie</span></a> <a href=\"https://fediscience.org/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://fediscience.org/tags/eleventy\">#<span>eleventy</span></a> <a href=\"https://fediscience.org/tags/builtwith11ty\">#<span>builtwith11ty</span></a></p>",
        "text": "In the process of moving my little website from WordPress.\n\nHave made good progress with #11ty, and have something up and running via codeberg pages...(https://tlohde.codeberg.page).\n\nAiming to use a custom domain at some point.\n\nBut...what do I do about images? I don't want to fill up codeberg (or github for that matter) with images?\n\nBut I like being able to push changes with git. Hosting/deploying suggestions welcome.\n\n#help #newbie #indieweb #eleventy #builtwith11ty"
    },
    "published": "2025-01-10T16:47:19+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "43499022",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
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