new post on tomo.city: "the essence of training is to allow for error without consequence"

when I was a teenager in the 1990s, a huge chunk of my time was spent exploring the world wide web, chatting with other people on IRC and in MMORPGs.

when I was 15-17 years old, I hung out with 20, 30 and 40-year-olds in cyberspace who assumed I was their age. that was partly thanks to my ability to type quickly and accurately.

I wasn't always taken seriously by the other people in those online groups, because I could be a real pain in the ass sometimes. I was moody, prone to emotional outbursts, and had a poor sense of boundaries. y'know, just like a teenager.

IRC channels and Ultima Online unknowingly became safe spaces to learn how to relate to adults, by imitating them, and being disciplined by them.

emotionally, for me, a lot was at stake: I wanted the people in my channel to like me. conversely, nothing was really at stake for me too. when i pissed someone off, got booted or banned from a channel for being a little shit, I could just turn off the computer monitor and go watch TV. no one was going to come to my house and beat me up, or take away my possessions or put a permanent blotch on my academic record.

... continued at the link:

https://tomo.city/#2025-02-08

#indieweb #smolweb #blog

I always enjoy reading Manuel Moreale's People and Blogs interviews, discovering new bloggers and learning more about the process and motivations behind blogs that I already follow. I really appreciated @amerpie's parting thought in this interview – very timely.
https://manuelmoreale.com/pb-lou-plummer

#blogging #IndieWeb

I'll give this #blogging thing a whirl even if it is to throw more support behind the #indieweb and take a little more engagement away from #techbros

https://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/2025/02/08/welcome/

I love the Kagi small web rss feed.

(https://kagi.com/smallweb)

Lots of neat stuff comes through there, but I despise the midjourney images on SO MANY of the posts.

That garbage makes your otherwise good post worse. Stop it.

#indieweb #blog #ai

#Development #Proposals
A ‘.well-known/avatar‘ URL would be cool · Let’s use avatars on our blogs and websites! https://ilo.im/1628jw

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#Business #Avatar #Community #SocialWeb #SmallWeb #IndieWeb #Blog #Website #WebDev #Backend

🎉 my blog has now 5 followers via #activitypub (which aren't me)


#indieweb

5 days till release....

And I'm finished with retroactively-posting my Bluesky and Tumblr posts! So if you visit the blog, you might get to see a LOT more art that you've never seen before...😉

#blog #webdev #indieweb #art #rss

TEST

@lhentz @wpfr

Chez les anglophones, il y a plus d’instances https://phpc.social/about (géré par la Fondation PHP), https://mastodon.gamedev.place/about (pour les devs de jeux vidéo), https://techhub.social/about parle de plein de sujets liés à la tech (pas que web), https://indieweb.social/about évidemment pour parler d’activity pub et de sujets liés au mouvement #indieweb.

Côté SEO et marketing, je ne connais pas d’instances dédiées. J’ai l’impression que ce ne sont pas des communautés actives sur Mastodon.

Yay! If you’re looking for writing inspiration, there’s a monthly blog carnival. This month’s topic is “Affirmations” by my friend @artlung.com. More coming up: indieweb.org/IndieWeb_Carnival

6 days till release....

#blog #webdev #indieweb #art #rss

I really appreciate folks making the #SmallWeb #IndieWeb more capable. @scottandrew has some interesting work implementing a combination of #Eleventy and #ButtonDown to enhance sites with subscriber-only content. https://scottandrew.com/blog/2025/01/integrating-eleventy-with-buttondown-to-create-sub/

🤖 There’s a new post on Michael Burkhardt’s Whirled Wide Web:

Anno Mihobu

#Year1971 #IndieWeb

https://mihobu.lol/anno-mihobu

Hi #indieweb, what is an alternative to Cloudflare DDoS protection? It can be a service but also can be a program software.

Web 2.0 failed. True online sharing died a long time ago. So start taking. Take your ideas, your words, your work–and go home.

https://pjonori.blog/posts/own-whats-yours/ #Internet #OpenWeb #IndieWeb

I hade one of those "Awwww I love the indieweb" moments.

Discovered a blog and read some articles which I enjoyed. Wanted to leave something in their guestbook and what a lovely surprise: It was an art-guestbook. So you draw something instead of writing.

Did that. But there was yet another surprise: The Thank you page contained a livestream of a printer, printing the picture I just drew.

Come on. How can you not love that?

#indieweb

Thanks @goodenoughllc

I really enojyed this guide on how to escape social media and join the indie web.

https://unplatform.fromthesuperhighway.com/

#indieweb #metaexit #meta #socialmedia #rss

Surprise! I'm changing things up a bit. I had originally planned to publish my #Indieweb / #Fediverse / #cybersecurity newsletter, "Scrolls", on Sundays but have decided that Friday works better for me actually getting it out on time. So, since it's Friday, here ya go!

https://shellsharks.com/scrolls/scroll/2025-02-07

You can subscribe to the newsletter (if you're so inclined) using the feed here https://shellsharks.com/feeds (I also have RSS feeds for other stuff I write).

Feel free to send me any feedback on it, good or bad! I hope ya like it. 🤗

Also, shoutout to some of the folks who unknowingly contributed to this weeks edition. I found something you wrote, or linked to, or boosted, or shared, and I shtuck in the scroll. Thanks! 🧡

@WetHat @markpitblado @neurovagrant @Iconfactory @flamed @amerpie @VinceAggrippino @ray @db0 @alcinnz @DevaOnBreaches @32x33 @lqdev @stark4n6 @hpk @jcrabapple @inquiline @chrismcolvin