Is there a good, real way to keep search engines from indexing your site? The whole "nobots" thing everyone sticks in their headers, does that actually work?

#WebDev #IndieWeb

ReadBeanIceCream Slash Pages

I recently asked for some tips on improving my site. In doing so, I learned about slash pages.

https://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/2025/03/08/readbeanicecream-slash-pages/

Thanks to @shellsharks for the recommendation!

#indieweb #smallweb #blogging #blogs #bloggers #personalwebsite

+1 journalism

Would love to see some of these move to Ghost, or Buttondown, or other systems that are independent of tech enshittifiers like Substack. I'd bet some already are, do you know of any?

"London Centric is one of perhaps a half-dozen Substacks [sic]—with names like London Spy, The Londoner, Capital Letter, The London Minute—that have sprung up, mostly in the past year or so." https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/letter-from-the-uk/london-is-a-local-news-desert-what-comes-next (also at https://archive.ph/e1u7d ) #London #journalism #IndieWeb

I’ve experimented with print styles on my site. My resume is a PDF printable version of a page on my site. I also love the idea of a printed book of my website. I think there are a few (mostly defunct) services for that listed on the IndieWeb wiki somewhere.

I've been thinking about adding printing support for my #blog posts. So I'm curious about this: do you print blog posts or save them as PDFs for offline #reading?
#Blogging #indieweb

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Recent Chris Hayes interview on Marc Maron podcast namechecks RSS, “Really Simple Syndication,” web pages, and open protocols. My girlfriend: “how’s it feel to hear your arguments parroted back to you?” Roughly 50 minutes in. #IndieWeb #RSS https://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episode-1621-chris-hayes

Memories of Phantasm has some GREAT theme songs. As an exercise, I wanted to figure out the meaning behind its most famous one, and make singable lyrics of it. Do lmk what you think...👉🏼👈🏼
https://prayag.hudsons.network/blog/?id=68

#blog #rss #webdev #indieweb #art #fanart #touhou #song
Sorry this is so late!!! Bu'hey, good opportunity to hit that orange "Subscribe" button on my website and try getting updates earlier, right?? 🟠

Thinking about working on my #PWA and #WellKnown folder so I get banned from the #IndieWeb by the elitists in charge of it.

Thanks to all who participated in the #IndieWeb Blog Carnival in February on the topic "Affirmations." I've posted a roundup piece. Go read, and go click links! Personal websites are a throwback that never left. Get one. https://artlung.com/blog/2025/03/07/blog-carnival-roundup/ #writing #blogging

Per Zufall die Blogosphäre entdecken

Es gibt offenbar noch eine Menge Leute, die ihre unabhängigen Blogs betreiben. Mit zwei Links kann man sich in einen zufällig ausgewählten Blog-Artikel beamen lassen und so Dinge entdecken, die man gar nicht gesucht hat.

https://kaffeeringe.de/2025/03/07/per-zufall-die-blogosphaere-entdecken/

#Blog #IndieWeb #ThomasGigold #Uberblogr #Webring

Via Porkbun's website, small price increases for certain (niche) TLDs coming April 1 (and no, it doesn't appear to be an April Fool's joke 😂) https://porkbun.com/blog/domain-name-prices-increase-april-2025

#TLDs #SmallWeb #IndieWeb #PersonalWebsites #Porkbun

It's CSS Naked Day on April 9th - consider this toot your one month warning to get your website ready in time to promote web (html!) standards and accessibility!

I still have lots of work to do on the accessibility front but I'm ready to get naked (sfw!) - in fact I made "no CSS" a theme option on my site to keep me fully aware of any html changes I make!

https://fyr.io/post/CSS_naked_day_2025_is_next_month

#web #indieweb #css #cssnakedday #html #webstandards

Man I was all ready to bring my Wordpress blog over to a Hugo static site hosted on Codeberg, but I quickly become overwhelmed by how to do this. I am not familiar with half of this stuff and it's not as easy as I was expecting.
#wordpress #blog #website #indieweb

I am thinking about migrating my Mastodon-Account to my micro.blog. Not sure if I will miss out on a lot of I do. Likes will change (there are no likes on the other side), but you’ll still see my posts and will be able to comment on them.

#indieweb #socialmedia

Written tutorials with GIFs is superior to video in every possible way.
I don't get it. Maybe we just need a blog search engine with clickbait thumbnails.
#indieweb

"The #fediverse won’t succeed just because it’s better. It will succeed if and only if people choose it. If they reject the idea that being trapped in someone else’s ecosystem is just the cost of existing online. If they stop believing that “free” means surrendering ownership of your own connections, your own history, your own data. The #internet was built to connect us, not silo us to pad a wealth-extremist’s bank account." (#westenberg)
#bigtech #openweb #indieweb
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-fediverse-isnt-the-future-its-the-present-weve-been-denied/

I'm procrastinating right now. So, I wrote a post about procrastinating.

https://shellsharks.com/i-am-procrastinating

Now, I'm procrasti-tooting about my procrasti-blogging.

Wanna procrastinate with me by reading the post? You can tell me what you thought about it so I can procrasti-read and procrasti-respond to your comments.

Thanks!

#indieweb #blogging

'tis Friday, so I've published the latest edition of the 'Scrolls' newsletter. Check it out and lemme know what ya think!

https://shellsharks.com/scrolls/scroll/2025-03-07

#indieweb #fediverse #cybersecurity #infosec

Thanks to everyone who's content or stuff-they-shared helped make this week's edition so great!

@Kaiern @askDNA @Weld @ben @axxuy @maxsidman @podfeet @Daojoan @ChrisHardie @indieaisle @davey_cakes @wuchta @faker @hyde @Daojoan @cernezan @Flipboard @chaosresearchparty @cdevroe @sainthood @daj @atomicpoet @nannnsss @felixthehat @matt @joel @beejjorgensen @firstdotorg @pfefferle @theresmiling

Is there any account of individual, or small, independent website's and cyber social spaces that were shutdown by their owners/administrators citing perceived threats by #GDPR?
#indieweb #self-hosting