Sleep Token Are Teasing Fans With A New Cryptic Website
https://blog.shrediverse.net/posts/sleep-token-are-teasing-fans-with-a-new-cryptic-website
My friends scattered. I’m setting up a POSSE approach to posting. Publish (on your own site) Once, Syndicate Elsewhere. I’m writing this on my page and cross-posting elsewhere. IndieWeb has best practices for providing links and references back to the original content but I’m still figuring that out
Ah, this is wonderful! Matt takes us on the quarter-decade journey of his brilliant blog (which chimes a lot with my own experience—my journal turns 25 next year)…
Slowly, slowly, the web was taken over by platforms. Your feeling of success is based on your platform’s algorithm, which may not have your interests at heart. Feeding your words to a platform is a vote for its values, whether you like it or not. And they roach-motel you by owning your audience, making you feel that it’s a good trade because you get “discovery.” (Though I know that chasing popularity is a fool’s dream.)
Writing a blog on your own site is a way to escape all of that. Plus your words build up over time. That’s unique. Nobody else values your words like you do.
Blogs are a backwater (the web itself is a backwater) but keeping one is a statement of how being online can work. Blogging as a kind of Amish performance of a better life.
"Writing a blog on your own site is a way to escape [the platforms]. Plus your words build up over time. That’s unique. Nobody else values your words like you do." Matt Webb on 25 years of blogging: #Indieweb
Reflections on 25 years of Int...
"Writing a blog on your own site is a way to escape [the platforms]. Plus your words build up over time. That’s unique. Nobody else values your words like you do." Matt Webb on 25 years of blogging: #Indieweb https://werd.io/2025/reflections-on-25-years-of-interconnected
The bar is in the frickin basement at this point, but browsing random personal websites I cannot believe how refreshing it is to NOT have to do all of these after waiting half a minute for the website to load:
1. Dismiss cookie notice
2. Dismiss automatic Google login prompt
3. Dismiss newsletter sign up prompt
4. Dismiss auto playing video
Instead, pages load *instantly* or in seconds, and I get to:
1. Read the thing I requested
Thank you for maintaining personal sites ❤️
#IndieWeb #SmallWeb
One of the #IndieWeb events that happens monthly is movie watches. Folks watch #movies then write about them on their sites. This month? Watch *any* (or multiple?) version of Romeo & Juliet. There are several! This ought to be a fun one. Hosted by @marksuth https://marksuth.dev/posts/2025/02/indieweb-movie-club-feb-2025-romeo-juliet
Working on a redesign of my personal landing page
#BuildInPublic #IndieWeb #WebDevelopment #Design #Figma
A guide to
.As with all of these things, there’s a cohort of people for whom modern social media (“Web 2.0”) is what they want out of the internet. For whatever reason, these people are no more likely to pull up sticks and join the indieweb now than they were to roll a blog or run a personal collective back in the early 2000s (or a newsgroup or BBS before that). They’re also the people most likely to get annoyed by any attempt to get them to do so. This class of people also includes most anyone with an Extremely Online career — influencers, journalists, “creators” and so on — which I think is why fedi and the indieweb tend to get such a beating in “mainstream” outlets (with “mainstream” being defined here in the modern sense of “anyone with, or trying to create, a monetisable broadcast channel”).
So. This is not for them. Is is for anyone, however, who enjoys Doing Things Online as a hobby, not a career (potential or actual). For anyone who wants the small scale, the friction, the jank, the weirdness. Who wants to sit in front of text editors and command lines. Wants to do things the old way, the slow way. Wants to wrangle and learn technologies and protocols and processes older than they are, older than their parents are, maybe.
These people have always existed, will always exist; the punks and the weirdos and the outsiders. The internet used to be theirs near entire, and while that hasn’t been true for a lifetime now, there’s still plenty of us around, lurking in our neon-dark and pastel-bright corners. And still plenty of space for anyone new who wants to join in.
Wanting to make a quick and dirty site to introduce ourselves to our new neighbors. Anyone have any recommendations for easy to use (ideally no sign up) ways to integrate some sort of guestbook/bulletin board so someone could say hi? Obviously I'll include a contact form/our socials but it would be cool to just let people say hello right on the site
As a rail against what “search” is becoming, I long more and more for the old ways of the web.
I want to have web rings again.
Does anyone know if there are any active webring services around? Searching of course displays me everything except what I want, with the exception of “history of webrings”.
I set up a short domain for my new personal site!
✨ https://bm.gy 🤏🏻✨
I was quickly able to integrate it with my static site generator as well. My articles will automatically get permashortlinks! It's just outputting a super basic .htaccess file with redirects, but that'll suit me just fine :)
Possibly the Easiest Blog Flow You Could Ever Have
Ever wanted to blog, but thought, "I don't want build a website or be a web master. I just want to write." Well, good news. With Asciidoctor and Surge. You can worry less about the "technical stuff" and focus on publishing your writing.
https://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/2025/02/19/possibly-the-easiest-blog-flow-you-could-ever-have/
#technology #tech #opensource #blog #blogging #indieweb #smallweb #asciidoctor #surge #news #blogs #socialmedia #rss #rssfeeds
@EllenJS @molly0xfff Yes! POSSE actually comes from the #indieweb community: https://indieweb.org/posse
"Now, more than ever, it’s critical to own your data. Really own it. Like, on your hard drive and hosted on your website. Ideally on your own server, but one step at a time." #Indieweb
Own what’s yours